Art Zoyd

Art Zoyd is a founded French group in 1969, mixing Free jazz, progressive Rock and electronic avant-garde. The principal type-setters of the group were Thierry Zaboitzeff and Gerard Hourbette.

Compared sometimes to the current Zeuhl (near to Magma and Universe Zero), Art Zoyd tries in the beginning a fusion of the progressive rock'n'roll and jazz with the music “ sérieuse ” contemporary.

Today, Art Zoyd is defined as a group of electronic music, and works especially on film musics, of ballet or in alliance with other arts, as its recent works testify some: Armaggedon in 2004, operetta for robots with Louis-Philippe Demers, or the field of the tears in 2006, oratorio electronic with the vidéaste Dominik Barber.

Gerard Hourbette ensures the artistic director today and joins other type-setters punctually: Kasper T. Toeplitz, Patricia Dallio, Carl Faia, Andre Greenhouse-Milan, etc

Art Zoyd has also its own studio of musical creation to Valencian in which it accommodates many type-setters for production and research, and also carries out takes teaching actions (opening of an electroacoustic class in 2005).

Selective discography

Symphonie for the day when the cities (1976) will burn
Musique for the odyssey (1979)
Génération without future (1980)
the Marriage of the sky and the hell (1985), music of the ballet of Roland Petit
Berlin (1987)
Marathonnerre I (1992)
Ubique (2000)
Metropolis (2002, for film of Fritz Lang)
the Field of the Tears (2006), oratorio electronic of Gerard Hourbette, Kasper T. Toeplitz and Dominik Barber

External bond

Official site

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