The soundscapes of Erick Detremain

1 (solo) performer

Indoor and outdoor

Guitarist

1,5 hour

3x4 to 5 meters,

NL, EN

Telling stories with a guitar. Painting with six strings. That's how you describe the qualities of Erick Detremain.

Just as the Impressionists painted a landscape, Erick Detremain paints soundscapes with his guitar: soundscapes! As an art lover, if you think of Monet, Degas and Renoir, with Erick my first thought is of David Gilmour, the fabulous guitarist of Pink Floyd. If you put Jeff Beck to the left of Gilmour, Erick Detremain is on the right. To speak in Pink Floyd terms, his talent until recently was "Obscured By Clouds. Virtuosic, lyrical, technically superb, but no talent scout or A&R manager ever came his way. And he always refused to play in bands that had trinkets on the menu.
So Erick is a lone guitarist, melancholy but full of gusto, performing extremely melodic and versatile tunes. He strings together his life experiences, read stories and world events with notes and sound effects. It brings out in himself, as well as in the listener, faded and lost memories. To describe Erick's oeuvre as instrumental listening and lounge music, or guitar playing in the melodic styles of jazz, folk, blues or symphonic, detracts from the way he paints with his guitar and echoes stories from his amplifier.
Playing exclusively his own music, Erick does so in churches, living rooms, outdoors on the square and in cultural centers. In a dancing or karaoke bar, you will not encounter this quiet man filled with musical sensibilities. His music is for connoisseurs, for lovers of brilliant, instrumental soundscapes and musical delights.
Performances are up to 1.5 hours maximum.

Evert Wilbrink, April 2024, Barcelona
(Evert Wilbrink was editor-in-chief of Verona magazine, President of the American King Biscuit Flower Hour, co-founder of Teye Guitars and writes monthly about music in Het Platenblad)

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