Zak & Boebbel
Zak &
Boebbel Live at Home (1970)
(cass.)
Zak &
Boebbel were a unique Belgian duo of the
early seventies, consisting of Guy Zak (bazak & percussion) and Rick
Boebbel (percussion). They could easily
be called the progressive yet acoustic predecessors of house music. They played exclusively on selfmade
acoustic instruments such as the 'bazak'
, actually a kind of contrabas but with stretched springs, and the 'zebkhak' , a drumset of cardboard soap boxes
. The sound of their instruments was
distorted with the recording equipment.
Their music was an explosion of original rhythms and bizarre bass
lines, and filled with funny vocal interjections and percussive
innovations. They only released one
cassette in a very limited edition, with four long tracks: Dzemlaporc
, Pivoplatat , and La Bamba
parts 1 & 2 .
After unsatisfactory
experiments with various guest musicians and a psychedelic rock band
called VETBULT ,
both musicians joined a jazzblues band called Oezem
, respectively on bass and guitar.
One year later Boebbel decided to start a solo career, while Zak directed Oezem into RIO
music and avantgarde chamber rock.
After his solo career, Rick Boebbel was a founding member of the
jazzrock band Psychotone , and much later he became famous as
an assemblage sculptor onder the pseudonym of Ribley!
[ see also Psychotone , Boebbel , Ribley! ]
