About Jan Marmenout
Jan Marmenout was a Belgian composer and musician.
Jan Marmenout (born in Ghent, Belgium) is a Belgian percussionist and multi-instrumentalist playing such instruments as the berimbau, kalimba, balafon, didgeridoo, shawm, Tibetan trumpet, conch shells, fujara, lithophones, etc. He is perhaps most-known for his compositions on the fujara, an ethnic instrument from Slovakia. Marmenout plays the fujara in an intuitive and non-traditionalist way.
He has composed the score for two movies, Desperado (2002) and Judentransport XX (2003).
Discography Gates, Highgate Music, 1997. Fujara, Highgate Music, 1998. Spirits, Highgate Music, 1999, with Vidna Obmana. Wastelands, Highgate Music, 2005, with Lode Vercampt. A Special Blend (Fujara II), Highgate Music, 2005
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Belgian composer
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Jan Marmenout was born in Ghent.
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Jan Marmenout was a composer and musician.
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