Mr Diagonal, prime minister of pop always cuts a dash and declines to cut corners. Peerless

pianist-entertainer with witty words and slick licks. Mutant music-hall on the Brecht-Bowie-

Broadway spectrum.

Mr Diagonal aka Dan Barbenel is a multi-faceted pianist/guitarist/singer-songwriter at the frontiers of pop, cabaret and theatre music. Variously compared to ‚Noel Coward on mushrooms‘, Kurt Weil and Divine Comedy, he has a loyal following in Japan (6 national tours and 2 full-length rockumentaries on Japanese TV), has featured on BBC radio 3‘s Late Junction and represented Belgium in the Guardian‘s Sound of Europe series. He has released 4 albums under the name Black Light Orchestra / mr Diagonal / Dan Barbenel, mostly on homerecords.be