Marc Moulin

Marc Moulin ( born September 1, 1942 in Ixelles, † 26 September 2008) was a Belgian jazz and fusion musicians (piano, Hammond organ, keyboards, synthesizer), record producer and author. He was one of the pioneers of electro jazz.

Life and work

Moulin, whose parents are the sociologist and author Léo Moulin and the poet and literary critic Jeanine Moulin, music lessons received at the Académie de musique city of his birth. He studied political sciences and economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles. During his studies he worked as a jazz pianist. In 1961 he founded his own trio, with whom he won awards at various jazz festivals. In 1963 he became a member of the quintet of Alex Scorier. He also accompanied by traveling musicians like Dexter Gordon, Slide Hampton, Benny Bailey, Don Byas, Johnny Griffin and Clark Terry.

With Philip Catherine Moulin founded in the late 1960s, the jazz-funk - rock band casino Railway and played on his debut album stream. Then he was. During the early 1970s, the organist of the jazz-rock group Placebo, which also attracted attention internationally and 1972 at the Montreux Jazz Festival won a prize In 1974, he recorded a first solo album. He was also in 1977 one of the founders of the avant - rock band Aksak Maboul ( and can be heard on their first album ).

In 1979 he founded the synth pop band Telex with Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers. The band represented Belgium at the Euro Vision Song Contest 1980. Erschienenem From Moulins 2002 Blue Note album Top Secret, the Jazz amalgamated with electro pop and soul music, more than 100,000 copies have been sold worldwide. As a producer, composed and produced Moulin among other songs for artists such as Lio, Alain Chamfort, Jacques Duvall, Viktor Lazlo or Sparks. He also produced several albums of Philip Catherine and wrote film music.

Moulin also worked as a journalist and radio editor. For the Belgian channel La Première he developed the concepts of shipments Cap de nuit, King Kong, Crocodile Radio and Radio Cité; He also had a humorous weekly column in the newspaper Télémoustique.

Moulin died of throat cancer. The remixer Denis Moulin (La Malice ) is his son. The 2002 at the Blue Note in New Zealand released a double CD Into the dark contains on the phonogram first original recordings and remixes on the second of the material from La Malice.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Sam ' Suffy (1974 )
• Picnic (1986 )
• Maessage (1992)
• Top Secret (2001, Single Into the Dark )
• Entertainment (2004, with Bert Joris, Philip Catherine, Fabrice Alleman, Christa Jerome, Peter Schneider)
• I Am You (2007)
• Best of (2009)
• Songs & Moods (2013 )

With placebo

• Ball of Eyes ( 1971)
• 1973 (1973)
• Placebo (1974 )
• Placebo Sessions 1971-74 (2006)