JOZEF DUMOULIN

Jozef Dumoulin is a Belgian composer, pianist, and electronic musician whose work has fundamentally redefined the expressive and sonic possibilities of the Fender Rhodes electric piano. Dumoulin approaches the Rhodes not as a nostalgic artifact but as a living, mutable system—capable of a vast textural palette, harmonic openness, and moments of fragile instability. 

His landmark 2014 recording A Fender Rhodes Solo was the first full-length solo album devoted entirely to the instrument, presenting the Rhodes as a complete compositional and improvisational environment. Rather than foregrounding idiom, the work examined how an expanded, technologically mediated soundworld alters the conditions of improvisation—not as an overlay, but as an intrinsic extension of touch, timing, and intention—quietly establishing a sonic terrain that has informed a generation of keyboardists working at the intersection of electronics and improvisation.

This approach reached a different expressive intensity on Rainbow Body, a trio recording with bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Eric Thielemans. The album situates Dumoulin’s keyboard playing within a finely balanced mix of composed and improvised frameworks, merging post-rock production sensibilities with the fluidity and harmonic abstraction of post-jazz. What emerges is a dynamic, forward-leaning group music driven as much by collective momentum as by individual voice.

Dumoulin has collaborated with artists such as Arve Henriksen, Stian Westerhus, Benoît Delbecq, Mark Turner, Nelson Veras, and Marc Ducret, and leads projects such as Lilly Joel and the Red Hill Orchestra. Across these contexts, his music resists stylistic enclosure, occupying a space where jazz improvisation, experimental electronics, and composed form coexist without hierarchy. He is based in Paris.