Jan Marmenout | |
Birth Place: | Ghent, Belgium |
Occupation: | Instrumentalist, percussionist |
Instrument: | berimbau kalimba balafon didgeridoo shawm Tibetan trumpet conch shells fujara lithophones shruti box |
Label: | Highgate Music |
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, Judentransport XX (2003) and Desperado (2002).