SOME MUSIC has been a discreet yet highly effective cultural player on Belgian and international stages for over three decades. Currently, it officially represents the music groups The Grey Stars, Le Rythme des Fourmis, Dalton Drum Syndicate, Studio Pagol, and more hybrid projects such as Taïkophonic, M-A-R-C, Tomback, among others.
A collective of artists united by a common goal and passion closely tied to "current music", Some Music has evolved over time into a (modest) booking agency, a (small) production house, and a (micro) label. Despite these many parentheses, it has become an effective structure practicing "360° management", as it's now called. Self-management and self-production have not prevented it from carrying out projects from start to finish with official public partners (SOWAREX/Igloo, Federation Wallonia Brussels - formerly the French Community of Belgium -, WBM, WBI, City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, etc.) or private partners (including majors like Sony Belgium and BMG France).
Organizing (touring) concerts, releasing albums, producing music videos, and managing artistic careers are the main focuses of its activities. The key players are:
- the brothers Claude and Christian Martin, who later founded Team For Action - T4A for insiders, and then served respectively on the boards of Sabam and Playwright,
- and Marc Van Eyck, who often acted as a reservoir* of kerosene - the kind that launches modules into space before they fall back to earth - for UFOs such as SHARKO, (Mousta) Largo, Haleh, and many others. (*The image is from Paul Henri-du-Bota)!
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In 30 years, the non-exhaustive list of artists who have closely or remotely gravitated around this collective includes names as varied as Zap Mama, Manou Gallo, K.Zia, Sttellla, Michel Moers (Telex), Geoffrey "Oulélélé" Oryema, B.J. Scott, Pierre Vervloesem, and guess who recently rehearsed in the studio? Plastiiiiic (Bertrand) himself, between rehearsals with Glu, Dynamic, Vagaband, Patrick Dorcean, NOli, Lay this drums, and most recently, Piwi Leman Exposant 4, Belgian Coup de Cœur prize winner of the Charles Cros Academy… it's clear there's a lot of activity in Some Music's premises!
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Renamed STUDIO PAGOL when it was frequented by musicians from all over the world (India, Morocco, Iran, Bangladesh, Haiti, France, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, etc.), this collective has naturally specialized in world music and all possible formulas and fusions that accompany these music styles.
In short, SOME MUSIC is actively seeking, 7/7, 24/24:
- concert dates for its artists,
- new artists for new collaborations,
- and above all, bookers, promoters, tour managers, organizers, programmers, entrepreneurs, in short, partners, men or women, to make all this happen!
At present, the non-profit association is supervised by Marc Van Eyck and proposes various activities:
Live performances, concerts, shows, animations, demonstrations, …
Classes, internships, team building, workshops, studios(workshops), initiations, interactive performances…
Productions (album or single), micro label, realization of sound tracks, sound design and sound effects, mixing, remix, editing, movie musics, ballet…
Provision of material (back-line), rehearsal studios, …
Some Music agency manages several music bands with very multicultural styles.
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(1) **Le Rythme des Fourmis** has held a very special place in the Some Music catalog for 23 years, with dozens of dates every year and two fully self-produced albums that have sold several hundred copies just during the concerts.
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