Biography
The keyboardist Peter Vandenberghe, drummer Teun Verbruggen, and bassist Kristof Roseeuw stepped away from their duties in the rhythm section of the Belgian big band Flat Earth Society, where leader Peter Vermeersch's intricate charts and eccentric outlook demanded constant focus, and instead formed the piano trio Too Noisy Fish to enjoy a lighter creative outlet. Vandenberghe, Verbruggen, and Roseeuw first gained experience in smaller configurations by backing saxophonists, including Belgian altoist Ben Sluijs during 2009 club performances in Ghent and New York City tenor man Ellery Eskelin on 2010 dates in Antwerp. Satisfied by these more intimate, jazz-rooted encounters, the three musicians struck out independently to examine the potential of both a compact group format and acoustic piano for Vandenberghe, whose recorded work had previously centered on electric keyboards with ensembles such as FES, X-Legged Sally, Univers Zero, and Pierre Vervloesem.
In 2011 the trio entered Fattoria Musica Studio in Osnabrück, Germany, to cut Too Noisy Fish's first album, Fast Easy Sick, which features mostly original material from Vandenberghe along with one cover of Queens of the Stone Age's "The Sky Is Falling" and occasionally adheres to conventional piano-trio structures while more often subverting them. The track "There's Lots of Us" was jointly composed by Vandenberghe and his longtime collaborator guitarist Pierre Vervloesem, who also served as producer, mixer, and mastering engineer for the Rat Records release that appeared later that year, the same imprint that houses Verbruggen's transatlantic sextet the Bureau of Atomic Tourism. Too Noisy Fish headed to California in February 2013 to track their second album at Prairie Sun Recording in Cotati, north of San Francisco, with engineer Oz Fritz, known for his work on the first two X-Legged Sally albums, 1991's Slow-Up and 1993's Killed by Charity, handling recording, mixing, and mastering duties. Maintaining the pattern of "FES"-inspired titles established on the debut, the follow-up album Fight Eat Sleep came out in September 2013.
In 2011 the trio entered Fattoria Musica Studio in Osnabrück, Germany, to cut Too Noisy Fish's first album, Fast Easy Sick, which features mostly original material from Vandenberghe along with one cover of Queens of the Stone Age's "The Sky Is Falling" and occasionally adheres to conventional piano-trio structures while more often subverting them. The track "There's Lots of Us" was jointly composed by Vandenberghe and his longtime collaborator guitarist Pierre Vervloesem, who also served as producer, mixer, and mastering engineer for the Rat Records release that appeared later that year, the same imprint that houses Verbruggen's transatlantic sextet the Bureau of Atomic Tourism. Too Noisy Fish headed to California in February 2013 to track their second album at Prairie Sun Recording in Cotati, north of San Francisco, with engineer Oz Fritz, known for his work on the first two X-Legged Sally albums, 1991's Slow-Up and 1993's Killed by Charity, handling recording, mixing, and mastering duties. Maintaining the pattern of "FES"-inspired titles established on the debut, the follow-up album Fight Eat Sleep came out in September 2013.
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