Albert Marcœur
Albert Marcœur ( born December 12, 1947 in Dijon ) is a French composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist (clarinet, saxophone, flute, drums, percussion, keyboards, kitchen utensils, bottles) and author.
The Early Years
Marcœur studied clarinet at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Dijon Roger Desoomer. He actively participated in various local and school rock and roll bands. His first band The Jazz Babies had their first appearance in 1963. In 1965 he founded The Lake 's Men Here, the desire to develop " own music to write, record your own plates, nothing else ."
Since 1970
With the group Kapak he worked from 1970 as a house musician in the studio Frémontel (Le Fidelaire, 27 190 Eure). The studio owner Jacques Dejean needed local musicians to facilitate its customers with the work. Here no studio recordings worked artists such as Jean -Luc Ponty, Stephane Grappelli, Philip Catherine, Pierre Bensusan, Johnny Hallyday, among others. Was instead, they could compose there and take up pieces. Here Marcœur gained extensive experience in multi-track recording method and in studio art. In 1974, he released his first solo album Albert Marcœur. His second album, album a colorier (1976 ) he published on the label Atlantic / WEA. As a symbolic figure of the avant-garde rock and iconoclast, he was always the " Frank Zappa France" called. But this is rather the fact that he neither partisan nor is classifiable, pays attention to his freedom and high standards for himself and his music is. His preference for sound experiments and tricky rhythms and melodies contribute to this comparison. So the voices of alto and bass bottles bottles are placed for example in the piece SIMONE on the debut album.
In addition to arrangements for Dick Annegarn ( Mireille and anticyclone ) Marcœur composed for film ( Deux lions au soleil by Claude Farraldo, Un tour de manège by Pierre Pradinas, Le pressentiment by Jean -Pierre Darroussin ...) and theater, music and dance performances (Georges Appaix Alain Gautré et la Cie du Chapeau Rouge ... ). He also worked with cartoonists such as Frank Margerin and Stéphane Blanquet & Olive ( Mon placard ) together.
1992 Albert Marcœur created his own music theater sports et percussions, which was published in 1994 as a plate. Later he focused on composing and recording the albums Plusieurs cas de figure, L'Apostrophe ( with Gary Lucas, François Ovide ) and Travaux Pratiques.
With his brothers Claude and Gérard involved since his first album to his recordings and performances, Albert Marcœur founded his own label label Frères, which allows him the independence of the music industry.