Luc Hensill

Luc Hensill (born Luc Gillet on September 7, 1948 in Uccle, Brussels) is a music composer and an English-language singer/songwriter as well as a multi-instrumentalist musician, known for his guitar prowess and his psychedelic creativity. He often sings in French, Brazilian Portuguese and Dutch in addition to English. He is also a film producer in high definition video.
Career
In 1962, Hensill joined the "Take Five Jazz Band" with Andre Bialek on the Guitar. In 1963, he joined "The Sherlocks". Later, he joined a band called "The Sparks", with Friswa on the guitar.
In 1964, Hensill joined the "Kris Doogan Band" and later, "Les Ombres", a band which had showed, among other places, at the Paris Olympia with Chuck Berry in 1965 and as background musicians of Vince Taylor.
In 1965, the record company Olympia Records sells contracts of "Les Ombres" to Palette Records. A Palette Records producer imposes the name “The Klan" to “Les Ombres". The Klan has showed, among other places, at the Paris Olympia with The Rolling Stones in 1967 and at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels with Michel Polnareff and Jeff Beck at the guitar. Later in 1967, Hensill founded the band "The Third Eye" and the Tomahawk Blues Band, an experimental music band. Tomahawk Blues Band was an experimental jazz, blues and hard-rock band formed in Brussels in 1967 active until 1969. The original group had eight members. As an experimental band, they became involved in experimental cinema, like A Trip with Tomahawk Blues Band by Belgian director Marc Lobet, a 55 minute experimental film shot on 35 mm colour film. In 1968, Tomahawk also created the Music of "L'Aurore Rouge Et Noire" written by the Spanish French filmmaker Fernando Arrabal.
In 1969, Hensill participated in the creation of the musical Hair in Brussels.
In 1971, Hensill joined the band "Mushroom" and in 1973, he wroted and interpreted the background score of "Je Voudrais Faire Le Tour Du Monde" directed by Marc Lobet.
In 1974 also founded a band called "The Masked Ball of the Extraterrestrials". The band participated in the creation of the first science-fiction film festival of Belgium in Auderghem.
In 1976, Hensill founded "Flesh Colour", a band featured in the movie Flesh Color by François Weyergans with Dennis Hopper and presented to the Cannes film festival. The band featured Friswa on guitar, Michel Van Stappen on the bass and Freddy Nieuland from the Wallace Collection on drums.
In 1978, Hensill joined the bands "Zooom" from Realengo, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and the "Real Rock Gloria", from Ipanema.
In 1985, Hensill needed a female singer for his band and he found Veronica Andrade da Silva whom he later married. They have two sons, Raoni and Geronimo. In the same year, Hensill joined "Invencao" from Itaperuna.
In 1991, after returning to his homeland Europe, Hensill joined the Belgian band "Firebird Jazz Band".
Filmography
*1969: A Trip with Tomahawk Blues Band by Marc Lobet
*1973: Je voudrais faire le tour du monde by Marc Lobet
*1978: Flesh Color (Couleur Chair) by François Weyergans (Prix Goncourt 2005).
Discography
* "Angry Age", single (Olympia Records, 1965)
* "Already Mine", single (Palette Records, 1966)
* "Out of line", E.P. (Palette Records, 1966)
* "Join Us", album (Palette Records, 1966)
* "Already Mine", single (Palette Records, Netherlands, 1967)
* "Already mine", single (Hit-ton Schallplatten, Germany, 1967)
* "Stop Little Girl", single (Palette Records, 1967)
* "And I Love It So", single (Palette Records, 1967)
* "Already Mine", single (Palette Records, UK, 1967)
* "Wait and see", E.P. (Festival, France 1967)
* "Melody maker", E.P. (Palette Records, 1967)
* "Sitting On My Own", E.P. (Supraphon, Tchekia & Slovakia, 1967)
* "Join Us", album (Equipe Internacional, Brazil, 1967)
* "Et Ce Soleil", single (Palette Records, 1967)
* "Sans Toi", E.P. (Palette Records, 1967)
* "Nobody Will Ever Help You", single (Palette Records, 1967)
* "Join Us", remastered & stereo, album (EMI, 1981)
Compilations
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* "Already Mine": Pebbles Vol.12.
* "Already Mine": Beat Scene.
* "Already Mine": Pandamonium Color in Dance Vol.17.
* "And I Love It So": Collecting Peppermint Clouds Vol.2.
* "Melody Maker": Beat Scene.
* "Sans toi": Disques Ronnie
* "Nobody Will Ever Help You": Visions Of The Past Vol.1

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