Name: Music for a while - H. Purcell/Arr: N. Wouters by Nathan Wouters
Duration: 3 min 28 s
Description: My quintuplet arrangement of Purcell's classic 'Music for a while'

Recording @ Bozar, Brussels - Belgian Music Days 
15th of February '24
Played by Ictus ensemble.:
Tom Pauwels : guitar
Ruben Orio : percussion

HOKETUS for electric guitar and percussion

Steamy Plants

My quintuplet arrangement of Purcell's classic 'Music for a while'

Music for a while - H. Purcell/Arr: N. Wouters

PROPHET 5

2nd track on 'Intact' (Jj funhouse, 2016)
http://www.jjfunhouse.com/catalogue/jj010

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// Recorded at S.M.A.K. Gent // Music by Nils Vermeulen // Recorded by Xavier De Clercq // Video by Victor Van Rossem // video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y9I3N7Mc3Q //

Etude I

First track of SPINNERET by Mandhira de Saram and Benoit Delbecq. Out on Confront on February 3, 2019. Release concert - free entrance - at Café Oto, London, Feb 03, 2019 at 7;30 pm. 

AVAILABLE VERY SOON ! Music by Mandhira de Saram and Benoit Delbecq (Sacem).

Recorded at Plushspace Paris in January 2017. Produced by Benoit Delbecq for Confront. 

Mandhira and Benoît met three years ago in Paris and soon discovered that they loved playing together. They recorded Spinneret in Paris a year later, over a day of quiet, meditative, and sustained sonic crafting, at mysterious distance from the animated music they are both usually drawn to in their own projects. Propelled by a spectacular sense of exploration in sound, time, and texture, together they weave a tapestry of sound which blurs the edges of where one instrument begins and the other ends. With Spinneret, these two internationnaly acclaimed players have fostered a new imaginary improvised folklore of slowness that's unique in many ways.

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releases February 3, 2019 license
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False Widow

A solo track recorded live by Steve Argüelles at PlushSpace. Excerpt from the Benoît Delbecq MAD MACS solo project to be released on dStream. Photo by Lukasz Rajchert (@Jazztopad Festival 2018).

MADMACS An Appetizer

Nathan Wouters (°1989) was born into a musical family. After starting out on violin, he switched to the double bass at the age of eleven,  attending classical bass lessons at the Academy for Music, Drama and Dance in Merksem under the guidance of Lode Leire. As well as being active in the Orchestra of Jeunesses Musicales Antwerp directed by Ivo Venkov, he also started to develop an interest in other musical genres.  In 2004, he won the 1st price in the “Music Live competition” organized by Jeunesses Musicales Flanders with fellow improvisers Seppe Gebruers and Jakob Warmenbol. This trio proved to be a valuable learning school in the field of improvised music for them.

Although interested in both classical and improvised music, Nathan started his education at the jazz department of the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp with Piet Verbist and Nicolas Thys, never losing track of his classical studies. 
In 2009 he received the 'Oranjebeurs’ granted by The Dutch Community Antwerp.
After an inspiring meeting with Swedish bass player and pedagogue Anders Jormin, Nathan got the chance to study his last year with him at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden).

Active in a variety of bands, Nathan participated in projects such as: Machtelinckx/Badenhorst/Jensson/Wouters, Book Of Air VVOLK, Book of Air Fieldtone, MikMäâk, Sgt. Fuzzy, Wout Gooris Trio, Chasing Penguins, Teun Verbruggen Quartet, etc…

His personal development as an instrumentalist and composer is displayed in the collaborative project [ˈkɑːmos] with Finnish Soprano Aino Peltomaa, as well as in his solo appearances and solo recordings. These settings create an ideal environment for him to explore and work with live effect processing, which has been part of his musical vocabulary since his teens.

As a in demand sideman, Nathan had the chance to work with musicians such as: Mark Turner, Dave Douglas, Hilmar Jensson, Aki Takase, Rudi Mahall, Kris Davis, Marc Ducret, Hayden Chisholm, Alexi Tuomarila, John Ruocco, Kurt Van Herck, Dré Pallemaerts, Benoît Delbecq, Bert Joris, Erwin Vann, Ben Sluijs, Jeroen Van Herzeele, Guillaume Orti, Bo Van der Werf, Joachim Badenhorst, Haakon Aase, Nicola Andrioli, Erik Vermeulen, Jozef Dumoulin, Teun Verbruggen, Giovanni Barcella, Marek Patrman, Erik Thielemans, Toma Gouband,  William Hooker, … 
Besides performing at the main Belgian stages he also performed in China, Chili, Mexico, Japan, Croatia, Finland, Ukraine, Sweden, United Kingdom, Finland, Germany, France, Portugal, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and Italy.

Since 2016 Nathan is associated as a teacher at the jazz departement of the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp.

Music for a while - H. Purcell/Arr: N. Wouters

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