This website was launched in 2020 and is a next step after all I've created around and with music in recent years, a new creation in an exciting time of global transformation.
Jean-Paul Steenmans (alias Pablo Boness)
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My story:
Like so many, I started as a musician in various bands, as a drummer, as a singer and later professionally as a percussionist. In the 80’s/90's I saw that making music is also a matter of co-operation. One of my first featured “masterpieces” was the publication of a Guide for Musicians, Artists and Spectacle, a huge reference work for the music and artists world in Belgium, in which you could find all the information you needed as an artist.
The last edition had no less than 16,000 contact addresses with information about musicians, bands, booking offices, publishers, recording studios, concert venues, record labels, etc. This valuable database was revised annually and later passed on to the publisher Tijd Cultuur. It was before the time of the internet and unfortunately the reference work no longer exists.
This project made way for a new adventure. As a former sailor/musician I bought an old ship in 1992 with the idea of turning it into a sailing stage ship. Together with my wife Lieve we indeed transformed the ship into a multipurpose concert hall, a "culture ship" in which we organised concerts, workshops, dance and relaxation and percussion lessons for many years. I also produced my first music on board in what was probably the smallest homestudio on the planet at the time.
We lived on board and we had a permanent berth in Ostend (Belgium), but travelling around with the ship turned out to be financially unrealistic.
The full story of the ship's adventures was chronicled and is touchingly told in a 170-page book (in Dutch), illustrated with dozens of photos ( click on image).
The relaxation-concerts we organised on board continued to grow and in 2002, with the support of the European Commission and Flanders Tourism, we started a unique project which we called "SeaSens".
For SeaSens we created sessions with music, laser light, aromatherapy, electronic massage seats in which up to 23 participants could make a relaxing journey, an intense experience for body and mind. Here, too, the - whether or not our own - music that we used and played through a perfect full-surround sound system, had a very important role.
Creating new themes was always the most fun part of the job and of the whole process.
After 13 years of SeaSens we were forced to close the business because the berth for the ship was no longer available and no alternative was found in the whole of Belgium.
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In order not to fall into an empty black hole we founded La Galeria. With La Galeria we travelled as a musical duo to the Canary Islands in the winter, where we were inspired by nature for our musical creations.
Now we seem to have come full circle, a new era is dawning. With LA GALERIA MUSIC STORE and a new home studio, I merge my talents and life experience in an online project for audio recording and music production. With the whole world heading more and more online, there is an increasing demand for unique music creations for various purposes.
When words leave off, music begins (Heinrich Heine)
