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Jan Marmenout | |
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| Born | Ghent, Belgium |
| Genres | Ethnic |
| Occupation(s) | Instrumentalist, percussionist |
| Instruments | berimbau kalimba balafon didgeridoo shawm Tibetan trumpet conch shells fujara lithophones shruti box |
| Labels | 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).
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