Lukas Simonis


Lukas Simonis is a Dutch guitarist, mainly active in experimental music and sound art. Besides his career as a musician he's also involved with the Rotterdam-based avant garde venue WORM. and runs the music lab of the venue.
Simonis published a book in 1979 entitled Slime in the early '80s. At the same time Simonis started his musical career in Dutch punk and experimental bands such as Demogorgon, Dull Schicksal, Morzelpronk, Trespassers W and later Aa Kismet, Vril, Static Tics, Coolhaven and became involved with the venues The Jazz Bunker and Dodorama. Dodorama would later become the venue WORM.
Dull Schicksal is a band active from 1984 til 1997 consisting of Simonis, Hajo Doorn, Colin Mclure, Henk Bakker. From the mid-1990s on, Simonis started doing projects with a large series of experimental musicians such as Pierre Bastien, Eugene Chadbourne, and Anne La Berge. VRIL is a collaboration of Chris Cutler, Bob Drake, Lukas Simonis and Alan Jenkins. Apricot My Lady is Adam Bohman, Anne La Berge, Jonathan Bohman and Simonis. In 2006 the CD Collaborations was released on which Simonis works with Anne La Berge, Greg Malcom, Henk Bakker, Hilary Jeffery, Huib Emmer, Julia Eckhardt, Paolo Angeli, Paul Dunmal, and Rohan Thomas. In 2007 he made the CD A Sure Sign Of Something with Peter Stampfel,. Ornament & Crime Arkhestra consisted of Alain Neffe, Han Buhrs, Harald Ingenhag, Lukas Simonis, Nadine Bal, Viola Kramer. In 2011 he did the movie sound track for the short film Illusies with G.W. Sok, after which they started the band 'Zoikle'. Simonis is also working for Dutch and international radio, producing and curating radiophonic pieces and radioplays.

Discography

  • Lukas Simonis & Pierre Bastien - Mots D'Heure: Gousses, Rames, In-Poly-Sons, 2002 In-Poly-Sons
  • Stots, CD 2006 Z6
  • Lukas Simonis - Stots,, Z6, 2006
  • Lukas Simonis - Collaborations,, Herbal records, 2006
  • Lukas Simonis & Takayuki Kawabata - News, Z6Records, 2007
  • Anne La Berge & Lukas Simonis - Rust Fungus, CD 2010 Z6
  • Candlesnuffer & Lukas Simonis - Nature Stands Aside, CD/LP 2011 hellosQuare Recordings, Z6
  • Zoikle - Illusies 1 & 2, 7, 2011
  • Lukas Simonis & Goh Lee Kwang - First Album + Bonus EP Herbal records, 2012

Aa Kismet

  • Where's The Rest Of Me?, ADM, 1999
  • What's The Use Of Crying When The Wolves Have Arrived Z6, 2001

VRIL

  • The Fatal Duckpond ReR Megacorp, 2009
  • Effigies in Cork ReR Megacorp, 2006
  • VRILfilms Z6Records 2011

Coolhaven

Dull Schicksal

Trespasser W

  • Pretty Lips Are Red Dead Man's Curve 1987
  • Dummy TW 1988
  • Potemkin TW 1989
  • Roots & Locations ADM, TW 1991
  • Fly Up In The Face Of Life AMF - Music 1996
  • Leaping The Chasm Organic 1999
  • Pretty Lips Are Red & The Ghost Of The Jivaro Warrior Mecanique Populaire 2002

Singles and EPs

  • Macht Kaputt ADM 1989
  • Kinder e.p. TW 1991

Liana Flu Winks

  • Sunshine Furball Z6records, 2002
  • The Discombobulators Z6records, 2004
  • Hay Test Grits Z6records, 2012

Other

  • with Estos Noson Pagagos - Hebban Olla Vogalas Pri-Ma Records 1995,
  • with Ornament & Crime Arkestra - Farbe Couleur, Colors AMF, 1995
  • with Morzelpronk - No Light, No House 1994, Kl’mpenzorro 2000
  • with The Rosebuds - The Rosebud Mystery 1995
  • with The Rhinestones and Kathenka - Chelsea Girl 1998
  • with Eugene Chadbourne and the Insect and Western Party - Beauty and the Bloodsucker Leo Records, 1999
  • with; Faces - Tijdlus
  • with; Apricot My Lady - Newly Refurbished And Tussock Moth esc.rec. 2009
  • with; Perfect Vacuum - A Guide to the Music of the 21st Century Acid Soxx, 2009
  • with; Zoikle - Illusies 1 & 2, 2011
  • with; Kodi & Pausa - In one week and new toys to play Korm plastics, 2005
  • with; Peter Stampfel & the Worm All-Stars - A Sure Sign of Something Acid Soxx, 2010
  • with; The Static Tics - My favorite Tics Z6records, 2011