Pascal Comelade

Pascal Comelade is a French musician of Catalan expression born the June 30th 1955 with Montpellier.

After having lived some years with Barcelona, it publishes its first album Fluences marked by the Electronic music and the group Heldon, led by his friend Richard Pinhas (whom it will find thereafter on a piece of Musiques for films vol.2 then over the length of a whole album: Oblique Sessions II ). Comelade takes part in addition in a pop group of short duration, Fall off Saigon, very influenced by the Young Marble Giants.

Thereafter, its music becomes much more acoustic and is characterized by the use of instrument-toys as much in solo that with its group with variable geometry, the Bel Canto Orquestra. If the rupture on the level of the sound is obvious, it seems in so far as this new orientation tends to reconcile old obsession for the repetitive music, tested until now via electronics, and a more melody tendency, tested within Fall off Saigon. The originality of the work of Pascal Comelade is posted amongst other things in its manner of trying a conciliation between all the forms of the popular music under the angle of omnipresence in it of the concept of repetition. As much influenced by repetitive American (Philip Glass, Steve Reich) that by music traditional (Sardane Catalan, Tango, Musette), by Krautrock (Faust, Edge) that by the rock'n'roll roll (Pretty Things, Captain Beefheart, The Kinks), Pascal Comelade tries to operate a synthesis of it by putting at the day the repetitive screen which is common for them, in particular in the innumerable recoveries which it records of these artists. This process is obvious in its disc " Haïku S of piano " (1991), which is presented in the form of a summary of the popular music of the 20th century carried out to the piano (sometimes large sometimes toy). The standards are the subject of recoveries seldom exceeding the two minutes, and reduced to their melody or rhythmic screen simplest.

He collaborated with very many singers and musicians resulting from all horizons like Robert Wyatt, Dani, Faust, Miossec, Jaume Sisa, Toti Soler, Jac Berrocal, P.J. Harvey to quote only some and to stress of them the eclecticism of the character. These collaborations testify once again to a will to embrace a broad spectrum of the popular music. However, in the constant evolution of his play of Piano, which it develops in particular in concert, Pascal Comelade testifies to a research which exceeds of much simple compilation. Its play oscillates between an unceasingly increasing tendency towards sobriety (evoking Erik Satie more and more) and a not pretended presence of the interferences which the body of the musician prints with this play (extreme stress caused by the representations in public, difficulties inherent in the fact of playing on miniature instruments).

Discography

1975 : Fluence
1978:

Pagan Sequences
Vertical Pianos

1980:

Paralelo
Objet trouv3e

1981: Slow fox trot Music
1982:

Sentimientos
Irregular Organs

1983 :

Logical Fall Off Saigon
of the Direction

1984:

the Dialectical one can Casser Bricks?
Beautiful Canto Orquestra
Milano Enharmonisto
Precise of Decomposition Bruitiste
Scenes of Slowed down Music
Monochromic Detail

1986: Beautiful Canto
1987: El Primitivismo
1988 :

Impressionisms
Rock'n'roll Del Veneno

1989:

33 Bars
Hundred Glances

1991:

Ragazzin' The Blues
Pataphysical Hammer
Haikus de Pianos

1992:

Traffic of Anecdotic Abstraction
Topography
El Ermitaño - with Beautiful Canto Orquestra

1993: Yo Quiero Tebeo
1994: Dances And Chants of Syldavie
1995: El Cabaret Galactic
1996:

Musics For Films Vol.2
Tango Del Rossello
One Saturday On the Earth - BOF

1997:

Oblique Tal Jazz
Sessions - with Pierre Bastien, Jac Berrocal and Jaki Liebezeit

1998:

Slang of the Noise
ZumZum.Ka
Beautiful Canto Orquestra In Concerto

1999:

Musics Of Kind
Live In Oblique Lisbon and Barcelona
Sessions II - with Richard Pinhas
Swing Slang Song

2000:

Aigua de Florida Classes of Música to Granja - with Llorenç Balsach
Andre Splendid the - BOF (followed by 3 titles written for the ballet " Spring man" of Ryohei Kondo and 6 titles written for the ballet " Zumzum-ka" of Cesc Gelabert.)
September Song - with Robert Wyatt
Pop Songs Del Rossello - with Gerard Jacquet
Catalan Pastis - Musics for the Museum of Modern art of Céret (Limited edition with 50 signed and numbered specimens.)

2001:

Isla LED Dutch cheeses - with Jose Manuel Pagan
Pop Songs Del Rossello 2 - with Gerard Jacquet

2002:

Judicious el Resso del Dring
Psicotic Music' Hall

2003:

Logicofobisme LED Piano in Minuscul
Pop Musica (Dances of Northern Catalunya)

2004:

Filosofia del Plat Combine
Back to Schizo 1975-1983

2005

Espace Relaxation - BOF

2006

Espontex sinfonia
Manera My Salvatge - with Enric Put
Stranger In Paradigm

2007

Monofonicorama
Mètode of rocanrol to listen to titles

Which it would be necessary to add tens of participations in compilations and collaborations with other artists.

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