Dominique Vantomme

Dominique Vantomme: Vegir

by Mark Sullivan
May 19, 2018

Belgian keyboardist/composer/producer Dominique Vantomme leads a razor-sharp quartet through a spontaneous treatment of a set of musical sketches. He is joined by guitarist Michel Delville, a fellow Belgian known for progressive projects such as The Wrong Object and Machine Mass; legendary electric bassist/Chapman Stick player Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Stick Men); and Belgian drummer Maxime Lenssens. The opener, “Double Down," stakes out a broad stylistic territory. A rhythmic vamp on Fender Rhodes is joined by atmospheric Mellotron strings. ...