Distract Vibes - Biography

2 years this chaos resulted in the founding of the hippie freak rock group "Mistic dawn". Started out as a 10 peace later reduced to 6, 5, ending up as a trio with Wally Dijksman on vocal and guitar, Moniek de boer bass and Peter Faber on drums. After releasing their first demo tape they achieved in booking some concerts in local bars and clubs creating a small cult status and a number 1 hit notation for 16 weeks at local radiostation "radio razor" and a headlining perfor-mance in the R'dam underground temple "De Vlerk". Drummer Peter Faber, famous for his bad tempered drinking fases and therefore never on time, if showing up at all, was sacked in 1987 and replaced by drummer Eef Fyneart. This line up only lasted for a year when the name was changed in "Distract Vibes". Wally and Moniek found "Doppelgangers" drummer Ron Verbeek prepared to complete the new trio. Powerhitter Ron made sure the musical structure evolved to extreme hardcore and noise paterns and after their first release in 1990, "The Fury" lp '91, the Distract vibes created an European break through. They started touring Europe intensivly. Released a second album "A brand new night-mare" cd, in 1993, toured Europe some more before they extended their line up with free-jazz saxophone veteran Arthur Scova Righini in 1994. In 1995 drummer Ron Verbeek had enough of life on the road and left the quarted. The leftover trio bought a drumcomputer, composed some drumtracks, created a new album "No More" cd '95, and went back on the road. Playing a concert in "Der wohlgroth" in Zurich ,Switserland, they met the Dutch theatre group "Primitive Action" and decided to cooperate in the music-theatre production "Symbiology". After creating a short videofilm for promotion purposes, "Symbiology" '97, they went back on the road playing music and theatre fest-ivals, theatres and clubs all over Europe, even in ST Peters-burg, Russia where they headlined the prestigues "Kyk-art jazz festival. "Symbiology" lasted for 5 years when Wally and Moniek decided they had enough of music theatre, Arthur scova rhigini went back to the free-jazz, and Bandoneon pla-yer and percussionist Mark Constandse was found to give the Distract vibes a new musical impuls.




			In 1985 a bunch of verry young hippies gathered together in a small container outside of the youth center of the feyenoord area in the south part of Rotterdam, Holland, created a im-mence untuned cacaphonia of noise and chaos. After about 2 years this chaos resulted in the founding of the hippie freak rock group "Mistic dawn". Started out as a 10 peace later reduced to 6, 5, ending up as a trio with Wally Dijksman on vocal and guitar, Moniek de boer bass and Peter Faber on drums. After releasing their first demo tape they achieved in booking some concerts in local bars and clubs creating a small cult status and a number 1 hit notation for 16 weeks at local radiostation "radio razor" and a headlining perfor-mance in the R'dam underground temple "De Vlerk". Drummer Peter Faber, famous for his bad tempered drinking fases and therefore never on time, if showing up at all, was sacked in 1987 and replaced by drummer Eef Fyneart. This line up only lasted for a year when the name was changed in "Distract Vibes". Wally and Moniek found "Doppelgangers" drummer Ron Verbeek prepared to complete the new trio. Powerhitter Ron made sure the musical structure evolved to extreme hardcore and noise paterns and after their first release in 1990, "The Fury" lp '91, the Distract vibes created an European break through. They started touring Europe intensivly. Released a second album "A brand new night-mare" cd, in 1993, toured Europe some more before they extended their line up with free-jazz saxophone veteran Arthur Scova Righini in 1994. In 1995 drummer Ron Verbeek had enough of life on the road and left the quarted. The leftover trio bought a drumcomputer, composed some drumtracks, created a new album "No More" cd '95, and went back on the road. Playing a concert in "Der wohlgroth" in Zurich ,Switserland, they met the Dutch theatre group "Primitive Action" and decided to cooperate in the music-theatre production "Symbiology". After creating a short videofilm for promotion purposes, "Symbiology" '97, they went back on the road playing music and theatre fest-ivals, theatres and clubs all over Europe, even in ST Peters-burg, Russia where they headlined the prestigues "Kyk-art jazz festival. "Symbiology" lasted for 5 years when Wally and Moniek decided they had enough of music theatre, Arthur scova rhigini went back to the free-jazz, and Bandoneon pla-yer and percussionist Mark Constandse was found to give the Distract vibes a new musical impuls. small






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