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Maxime LENSSENS

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Maxime LENSSENS was born 22th June '76 in Ghent (B)

Education:

Started playing the drums at the age of 15 (after briefly experimenting on saxophone, bass and piano). Came in contact with jazz while participating twice to a summer workshop organized by Jazz Studio (Antwerp). At the age of 20 he went to New York to take private lessons with Billy Hart (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock) and Gene Lake (Steve Coleman, Me'Shell, Marcus Miller). After that, he took a few lessons from Stéphane Galland (Aka Moon).
You could say that Maxime is self taught, apart from the fact that He's had a couple of private lessons.

Influences

Miles Davis and everyone who played with him, John Coltrane, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Jazzanova, The Roots, Eryka Badou, Meshell N'degeocello, Steve Coleman, Aka Moon, Chris Whitley, Lewis Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Oumou Sangaré, Zakir Hussain, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Bob Marley, Black Uhuru, Israel Vibration, Hariprasad Chaurissa, D'angelo, Sizzla, Timbaland, Arto Lindsay, Björk and may others...

Drummers: Michael Bland, Gene Lake, Stéphane Galland, Poogie Bell, Sean Rickman, John Bonham, Tony Williams, Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Al Foster, Paco Sery, ....

Bands:

Maxime has been touring through out Belgium, France, The Netherlands, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Corsica, Kenya, Marocco, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Madagascar, USA, Canada,..
Although his background is jazz, Maxime has always taken an interest in a wide variety of music. His first band was a Jimi Hendrix-cover band, followed by a great number of bands, including:

** Recent Projects **
** ** Previous Projects ** **
Performed in a play by Kamagurka Gives school-workshops and performances with 'The Colour of Percussion'. Produced 'DDDS' featering Dalton drum syndicate & 4 Dancers (2003) Played with African choreographers Mama Adama Camara (Mali) and Chokri Ben Chikha (1997-1999).Different collaborations with urban dance collective 'Mad Spirit' (2000-2003) 'I will dance' Dance piece featering Pape & Bor N'diaye Rose on Sabars and Maxime on Drums.(2002)