Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

A progressive electronic journey into the world of rhythms...

Picture :
By Yuki Akaike Garrido

Introduction Finale (2006)

Music composed for "The Cinema", a horror short film directed by Juan Leon, London, 2006.

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Cinema (2006)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Created in memory of the victims of the spanish civil war

Jardines de la memoria (2010)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Created for the presentation of a new program “How is the Space Weather today” at the Royal Planetarium of Belgium, Brussels. 2006.

Space Weather (2006)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

To start an imaginary space weather forecast...

Space Weather Generic Start (2006)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

To end an imaginary space weather forecast...

Space Weather Generic End (2006)

Music and Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

An old school one

Picture :
By Jesús Mallo Velasco

Faith (2004)

Music and Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Passé (2009)

Music and Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Bits and parts that came out one day disparate, stucked together.

Moodmood (part 1) Mind Medley (2010)

Music and Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Composed in a different moment than part 1, centered on one solid theme.

Moodmood (part 2) The Redemption (2010)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Composed for "IdenTHIEFication", a short film by Martin Bax.

Interlude (2012)

Voice and Music inspired by the poem "Schaamte" by Dirk Ghys. 

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Original lyrics written by Dirk Ghys in dutch, spanish translation by Yuki Akaike Garrido.
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Composed for the oil painting's exhibition called SHAME by the painter Dirk Ghys @ AmartGallery, Brussels, 2013. 
Check www.amartgallerybrussel.be/ghys_dirk_729.htm for more information about the painter.

Picture-design :
By Dirk Ghys

Vergüenza (2013)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Music composed for the advertising of a sculpture exhibition by Cypris Laboratorium, Brussels, 2015.
See advert on : vimeo.com/129473958

Rapid Eye And Slow Descent (2015)

Music and Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Trying to understand...

Bataclan (2016)

Music written by the three members of the band ( Each of the three members composed his instrument part)
Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by : Mike (Bass), Not sure who (Drums), Benoit Merckx - HoneyBox (Guitar, Voice)

Another song with our rock band.

Recording medium : Magnetic Tape, One Take.
Recording year : 1999
Sound quality : Very Poor. Recorded with one standard microphone in the middle of the room.
Editing : None except intro fade-in, outro fade-out and volumes.

Lyrics :
« Détache moi de mes envies, détache moi de mes espoirs,
Détache moi de mes peurs, détache moi de mes pulsions

Si tu le peux, enterre moi, enterre moi au plus profond de toi,
Si tu le peux, enterre moi au plus profond de toi

Enlève y moi juste pour un jour, promets moi de ne pas crier,
Engage toi seulement pour une fois, détruis moi si tu en as la force 

Si tu le veux, enterre moi au plus profond de toi,
Si tu le veux, enterre moi au plus profond de toi

Excuse moi de tout le mal que tu as fait, 
Excuse nous des paroles en l’air,
Excuse le si tu le peux encore, excuse nous d’avoir cru en toi

Si tu le peux, enterre moi,
Il vaut mieux pour toi de ne plus croire en rien, de ne plus croire en rien, de ne plus croire en rien, de ne plus croire en rien, de ne plus croire en rien, de ne plus croire en rien, en rien »

Picture :
By Jesús Mallo Velasco

"Ne plus croire en rien" (1999) (Pre-HoneyBox Tune)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox) 
Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by : Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

A kind of hybrid composition between rock and electronic ambient where overdrive guitar meet keyboard.

Recording medium : Magnetic Tape, One Take.
Recording year : 2000
Sound quality : Intermediate
Material : Standard Roland Synth, Standard Dynamic Microphone, Electro-acoustic guitar, Small Marshall Amp
Editing : None except intro fade-in, outro fade-out and volumes.

About : When you feel you have to follow your inner instinct instead of thinking rationally and intensively with your brain to take one path, do an action. It’s about self confidence I suppose.

Lyrics :

« Ces relations qui nous dominent, sans arrêt nous font pleurer.
L’offre tentante qui se trouve en mon choix est la suivante : vivre ou essayer de vivre.
Je n’ai pas encore choisi ma direction…

Elle me regarde en attendant que je me jette dans ce trou, 
ce trou malsain de puanteur morbide,
mais qui nous attire, mais qui nous attire,
ce lien, c’est celui que nous découvrons chaque jour quand on se regarde vis à vis des autres, vis à vis des autres…

On se couvre de conneries inutiles pour oublier le lien qui nous attache, mais l’instinct reprend le dessus, mais l’instinct reprend le dessus…

Instinct or impossible happiness, instinct or impossible happiness… »

« Instinct » (2000) (Pre-HoneyBox Tune)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox) 
Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by : Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

My first steps into drum and bass rhythmic with a keyboard.

Recording medium : Magnetic Tape, One Take.
Recording year : 2000
Sound quality : Poor
Material : Standard Roland Synth, Standard Dynamic Microphone
Editing : None except intro fade-in, outro fade-out and volumes.

About : It’s about entering an imaginary underground world where our common rules and value are disturbed.

Lyrics : 

« In the panic, it was so strange,
all the people were the same.
In the panic, it was so strange,
all the people were the same.

I have lost my identity and also my mind.
For a moment, I believed that they wanted to kill me.
But I realized : they were cold, without life, they were cold, without life, they were cold, without life, dead.

This is the story of my underground experiences.

Do you believe me ?
Do you believe me ?

After this, everything blames you to be alive.
You want just a thing : to fade out, to disappear so far in the ground.
And it was not finished.
I began to run away, run away their mouth.
Scorn was the only thing I learnt, scorn was the only thing I learnt, scorn was the only thing I learnt, for them.

This is the story of my underground experiences.

Do you believe me ?
Do you believe me ?

I want to return there, in the underground, just to say to them that we are here the same, that humans are humans, and nothing else.
I want to return here, in the underground, just to say that we are here the same, that humans are humans, and nothing else, nothing else, nothing else, nothing else, … »

« Underground Experiences » (2000) (Pre-HoneyBox Tune)

Music and Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Recording medium : Magnetic Tape, One Take 
Recording year : 1999
Sound quality : Poor
Material : Standard Roland Synth, Standard Dynamic Microphone
Editing : None except intro fade-in, outro fade-out and volumes.

About : This song must be seen as a pure expression of typical dark teenager’s feelings. The final image is someone who is about to die and who is crawling through a hallway, seeing a door at the end of it, without knowing what's on the other side.

Picture :
By Yuki Akaike Garrido

"Je Suis Mort" Original Version (1999) (Pre-HoneyBox Tune)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox) 
Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by : Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

A basic set (guitar and voice) for a surreal text.

Recording medium : Magnetic Tape, One Take.
Recording year : 1999
Sound quality : Poor
Editing : None except intro fade-in, outro fade-out, cutting noises and changing volumes.

Lyrics :

« Lost in my head, you are.
People cannot move, like me before my father.

Mother’s hell is my place in space,
Mother’s hell is my place in space.

Lost in time, we are.
Animals cannot breathe here, like me.

Mother’s hell is my place in space,
Mother’s hell is my place in space.

Lost in true vision, I am,
I cannot speak to you, like a dog
Lost in true vision, I am,
I cannot speak to you, like a dog

You can and you are my mother’s hell, you can and you are my mother’s hell, mother’s hell, is my place in space.
Mother’s hell, mother’s hell, mother’s hell, mother’s hell »

« Space » (1999) (Pre-HoneyBox Tune)

Music written by the four members of the band ( Each of the four members composed his instrument part)
Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by : Mike (Bass), Patrick (Guitar), Not sure who (Drums), Benoit Merckx - HoneyBox (Piano synth, Voice)

At the time of this recording, I had started on solo composition with the keyboard and was simultaneously playing with our rock band. We decided one day to intent translating the original version of « Je suis mort » into a rock tune. Thanks to all the band !

Recording medium : Magnetic Tape, One Take.
Recording year : 1999
Sound quality : Very Poor. Recorded with one standard microphone in the middle of the room.
Editing : None except intro fade-in, outro fade-out and volumes.

About : This song must be seen as a pure expression of typical dark teenager’s feelings.

Picture :
By Jesús Mallo Velasco

"Je Suis Mort" Band Version (1999) (Pre-HoneyBox Tune)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox) 
Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by : Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Somebody lend me his folk guitar and a good microphone and I improvised a text and a melody.

Recording medium : Computer digital audio workstation, One Take.
Recording year : 2005
Sound quality : Good
Editing : None except intro fade-in, outro fade-out, cutting noises, pops and changing volumes.

About : Falling in love suddenly with somebody / a feeling that unite humans

Lyrics :

« Around Hollywood, at the corner of the street, this pretty woman just came by.
Maybe I saw her in Spain, maybe was it in Brussels, I don’t know.
But I liked her as I knew her since ten years.

I just fall in love like so many people in the same time on this planet and that was what is so crazy.

On this planet, just thinking, you just get crazy…

You search for simple, every, everything in its right box, every, everything, everything in its right, in its right box. »

« Love On This Planet » (2005)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed, recorded, arranged and mixed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Field recording by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Close your eyes, Listen and "Remember when you were playing in the schoolyard"

School (2017)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Field recording by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Lyrics :

« Et tu parles comme ça, et ça monte, ça monte de plus en plus haut »

Opening (2018)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Field recording by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Lyrics :

« ………I feel, I……, just take the energy, where you can and give it all, give it all…
Find the energy and just give it all, feel empty, just give it all, empty.
Give it all, believe… »

Give it All (inspired by Mark Hollis) (2018)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Field recording by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Vehicles (2018)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Field recording by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)


Lyrics :

"I am passing by, just passing by
Enjoying little, little pleasures of life, life
Just passing by… "

Morning (inspired by The Divine Comedy) (2018)

Music and Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Recorded at and by Club Ventura, Madrid

Humanité (2003) Recorded live in 2010

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Field recording by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Religious Love (2019)

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Song performed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Antique (2019)

Original title : Guerre Intime "Moment de Réflexion (Avant une Pluie, Le Début du Printemps)"

Music written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Lyrics written by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)
Acknowledgment :
I would like to thank Yann Moix for the verbal expression : « une question vertigineuse ». I listened to it in one of his speech on tv.

Field recording by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Song performed by Benoit Merckx (HoneyBox)

Guerre Intime "Moment de Reflexion"(2019)

Contact (2019)

Tribute to C.C. (2019)

Jazz Love (2019)

Working (2019)

Nunca Give Up (2019)

Finally (2019)

Green Love (2019)

Music composer/Sound designer

Biography:

A lot of music listening and a creation : "HoneyBox" started in 2001 when me and my teenage friends broke our alternative rock band. I left my electric guitar and decided to work on solo with an old Roland keyboard that my step father had at home. It even had integrated floppy disks ! Few months later, I bought a Yamaha hardware sequencer, started to experiment and created my first electronic tracks. The world of electronic music opened to me a wide range of dreams and music gender defining was never easy. In 2005, moving from my hometown Brussels to London was a big and inspiring change... I studied Sound Design and started to build soundscapes for films and scenography projects, creating, editing and mixing sounds with a computer based equipment. Simutenaously, I played improvisations of my tracks with my sequencer in various public spaces.

Getting to the point : Today : My material : a 19 year old hardware sequencer, an old Syquest floppy disks for my data, a 30 year old spanish acoustic guitar... along with my voice in French, Spanish or English... A recent computer to record, and everything sounds "contemporaneous"-:) My style : learning from gigs to gigs, improvisation, creating music "in the moment". My today's leitmotive : Taking the maximum advantage of what I have NOW.

Some places where I have performed :

Baran Café, Bergen, Norway
LCC cafe, London
Electrowerkz, London
Rhythm Factory, London
Club Ventura, Madrid
Eisbär Soundclub, Madrid
La gougoutte à pépé, Bruxelles

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By Jesús Mallo Velasco

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