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.
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.
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
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.
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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
Lyrical jazz-pianotrio led by Heleen Andriessen
