Jan Marmenout

Jan Marmenout
Born Ghent, Belgium
Genres Ethnic
Occupation(s) Instrumentalist, percussionist
Instruments

berimbau kalimba balafon
didgeridoo shawm Tibetan trumpet
conch shells fujara lithophones

shruti box
Labels Highgate Music

Jan Marmenout (born in Ghent, Belgium) is a Belgian percusionist 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, Judentransport XX (2003) and Desperado (2002).

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