Simon Lenski
Simon Lenski is a cello player from Antwerp, Belgium. His main activity lies within the band DAAU which he co-founded[1] in 1992.
As a cello player, he is a highly sought guest musician for other artists and music groups, often together with his brother Buni Lenski. In 2004 he set up a collaboration with Swiss avant-garde cello player Bo Wiget.[2] Together they released an album Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde.[3]
In 2008 Simon Lenski composed the soundtrack for the movie Left Bank Linkeroever.
Simon Lenski composed the music for several theater plays.
In 2011 Simon Lenski composed and recorded the soundtrack for the short movie Motor of Dutch movie maker Simone Bennett. For this musical piece a special electric twelve string violin was built for him by experimental luthier Yuri Landman.
Discography
For Simon Lenski's discography with DAAU, please see DAAU.
- Simon Lenski / Bo Wiget - Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde (2007)
- Laïs Lenski - Laïs Lenski[4][5] (2009), together with Laïs
- Simon Lenski: Oh City (solo EP 2016) Simon Lenski
Collaborations
- Kiss My Jazz
- Bettie Serveert
- Ez3Kiel
- Think Of One
- Flowers for Breakfast
- Mintzkov Luna
- Donkey Diesel
- Mauro - Songs from a Bad Hat
- Gitbox
- Zita Swoon
- Maxon Blewitt
- Cinérex
- An Pierlé
- Millionaire
- Soul Sucker
- I Hate Camera
- Paramount Styles
- Ellen Schoenaerts Kwartet
- Magnus (band)
- Gorki / Luk De Vos[6]
Film and theatre scores
- Wunderbaum / Venlo, Theatre Score[7]
- Wunderbaum / The Haunted House Of History, Theatre Score and performer[8]
- Damaged Goods / Meg Stuart : Revisited, performer[9]
- Eisbär / Collateral Damage, Theatre Score
- Andcompany & Co / Der (kommende) Aufstand, performer[10]
- Andcompany & Co / Orpheus in der Oberwelt, Theatre Score / performer[11]
- "Theater Froefroe / Macbeth, Theatre Score and performer[12]
- Left Bank Linkeroever, soundtrack[13]
- Waste Land, soundtrack[14]
- Needcompany / O, Or The Challenge Of This Particular Show Was To Have Words Ending In O , Performer / Theatre Score[15]
- Benny Claessens & CAMPO/ Hello Useless, for W and friends, Theatre Score[16]
- Wunderbaum / The Future Of Sex , Theatre Score / Performer[17]
References
- Simon Lenski at Discogs
- Bo Wiget biography Archived 8 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- (in Dutch) review Die Vögelein schweigen im Walde
- Ultratop charts
- (in Dutch) review Laïs Lenski
- "Archived copy" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 24 October 2008. Retrieved 10 March 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- (in Dutch)