Memory Stop

About

"Memory Stop" is the music of a show by the same name created by Plan K. It is a happy encounter between this flagship venue from the Brussels scene of the 80s and the musician John Van Rymenant, a meeting between experimental theatre and free jazz conquered since the 70s by electronic music. A show and music, sounds and gestures, culture shocks. The cover was signed – once again – by the artist Alain Géronnez.

To stage the show, Frédéric Flamand (in charge of Plan K) brought his troupe to Brazil for eight months. He immersed himself in Brazilian tempo and rhythm. John Van Rymenant accompanied them, wandering with his synthesizers through the humidity and harshness of the dirt roads. Free electronics clashed with the berimbau, an ancestral Brazilian instrument. "Memory Stop" was influenced by Brazilian weather and climate.

Revolt is one of the axes of John Van Rymenant's music, sometimes quiet in its violence sometimes violent in its apparent calm. Music that also weaves a spell of imagination and creativity.

Van Rymenant was among the first in Belgium to integrate live electronics and other new media, such as the electric saxophone. He has played with many musicians in very contrasting contexts, including Byard Lancaster, Geoff Leigh, Frank Wuyts, Michel Herr, Doug Lucas and many others.