Instruments Bass guitar Years active 1991-Present | Name Jeroen Thesseling | |
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Associated acts Salazh TrioPestilenceObscuraEnsemble Salazhar Website www.jeroenthesseling.com Role Bass player · jeroenthesseling.com Albums Similar People Patrick Mameli, Steffen Kummerer, Christian Muenzner, Hannes Grossmann, Tony Choy | ||
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Jeroen Paul Thesseling (born April 13, 1971) is a Dutch fretless bass player, most famous for his work in the German band Obscura, Dutch band Pestilence, and the studio project Ensemble Salazhar.
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- Jazzrocktv 76 warwick bass camp 2013 victor brandt and jeroen paul thesseling
- De bassist jeroen paul thesseling interview
- Biography
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- Discography
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De bassist jeroen paul thesseling interview
Biography
Thesseling began studying bass in 1988 at the ArtEZ School of Music in Enschede, Netherlands. During the period 1992-1994, he was a member of Pestilence, with whom he recorded the jazz/fusion-influenced album Spheres. In 1995 Thesseling started to study microtonality, which resulted in two pieces: Hafnium — study in 72-tone equal temperament (1999) — and Argon — study in 18-tone equal temperament (2000). The period following, microtonal and contemporary classical music inspired him to focus primarily on fretless bass. In 2005 he recorded with the studio group Ensemble Salazhar. Despite their highly acclaimed demo 'Colors' the group never officially released recordings. Between 2007-2011, he collaborated with Obscura and recorded with them Cosmogenesis (2009) and Omnivium (2011). During the period 2009-2012 he rejoined Pestilence after a 15-year break and recorded their sixth studio album Doctrine (2011). Since 2011 German bass luthier Warwick built fretless 7-string instruments for him that are strung with a sub-contra F#-tuning. Late 2014 Jeroen founded the fusion-world group Salazh Trio with Hans Grotenbreg - piano, electric piano, synth - and later on completed with Horacio 'El Negro' Hernández - drums, percussion. Their debut work Circulations is expected to be released on short notice. Salazh Trio will work on a second studio album soon.
Equipment
Jeroen is endorsed by Warwick and plays 6-string Thumb neck-through basses since 1993. From 2011 he uses 7-string fretless Thumb NT basses with a low F#-tuning.
