Kobe Boon

Kobe Boon

Bassplayer & composer

Kobe Boon (°1992) is a bassplayer & composer based in Ghent, Belgium.

He is active in different groups covering a wide range of styles influences, going from jazz to impro, from  rock to electronic music and from world to classical music. Being a former student of the jazz academies of Ghent, Antwerp & Gothenburg there is always some kind of a exploring angle to a lot of his projects. After some years of mostly performing on double bass with several crossover jazz groups like the electro-acoustic jazztrio ‘Steiger’, the folky jazz-ensemble ‘The Milk Factory’ or the acoustic drone band ‘Kreis’, Kobe started to implement more electronics (fx-pedals and small synthesizers) on one hand and exploring the acoustic guitar on the other hand. The most recent sum of these explorations cumulates in his indiejazzband ‘mòs ensemble’. Kobe also works on a solo electronic project working with small electronic instrument, preserving a kind of live-spontaneity, which can be found in his other projects.

Projects

Steiger


Gilles Vandecaveye-Pinoy (keys), Kobe Boon (bass) and Simon Raman (drums) eagerly explore the outer margins of jazz and dive into other universes (contemporary music, electronica, pop, free improvisation, …), but basically also remain faithful to the genre’s long-standing core principle; that of a flexible transformation.


Releases:

  • Steiger (EP), 2016, 
  • 'And Above All,', , 2017, El Negoctio Records
  • 'And Above All,' (10” vinyl EP), 2018, SDBAN Ultra
  • 'Give Space', 2018, SDBAN Ultra
  • ‘Brick Smoke Basement’, 2020, Sdban Ultra
  • ‘The New Lady Llama’, 2021 Sdban Ultra

mòs ensemble

A different, green world, as Brian Eno once imagined. Mós Ensemble lives up to their name, pollinating every ear as one, growing, rampantly moving organism. Music as the matrix for spring dreams, for an arcadian adventure.

An indie/jazz collective led by Kobe, with a focus on vocal arrangements


Astrid Creve, Marta Del Grandi & Roos Denayer - Vocals

Ambroos Deschepper & Benjamin Hermans - Reeds

Artan Buleshkaj - Guitar

Kobe Boon - Bass & compositions

Simon Raman - Drums


Releases:

  • 'Limbs', 2019, Smeraldina-Rima records,
  • ‘Behind the Marble’, 2022 W.E.R.F. records
  • ‘Pets & Therapy’, 2024 W.E.R.F. records

The Milk Factory

In recent years, the six members of The Milk Factory have focused on refining their soft and dreamy sound palette. Partlythanks totheir unique orchestration, they succeed in transporting their listeners to a landscape where peace and tranquility become evident.

Kreis

This is no trio of the shock and awe-technique, no unit that blows you away with technical tour de force or exaggerated ideas and emotions.

On the contrary, this is a band that slowly crawls under your skin, quietly entering to catch the listener and consequently submerge them with enough depth to stay away from woolly melancholy.
Kreis limits itself to the essence. Often lyrical, regularly mysterious, sometimes wringing. But always returning to the essence.


Stan Maris - Accordeon

Benjamin Hermans - Reeds

Kobe Boon - Double Bass

Releases:

  • The Milk Factory, (EP), 2018, eigen beheer
  • 'Aula', 2020, W.E.R.F. records
  • ‘Dusky’ (EP) 2021, W.E.R.F. records
  • ‘Vandrare’, The Milk Factory & Hannah Tolf, 2023 W.E.R.F. records

Releases:

  • ‘Askr’, 2019, Eigen Beheer
  • ‘Embla’, 2020, Bwaa. Records
  • ‘Fimbul’ 2024 Bwaa. Records

Volpe

Lyrical jazz-pianotrio led by Heleen Andriessen

Electronic Solo-project