Kind Zoyd
Art Zoyd are a French avant-garde music group. They were founded in 1968 in Maubeuge , France and are still active today. The music style of the group ranges between experimental new music , free jazz and progressive rock .
Band history
The group was founded in 1968 by Rocco Fernandez and had 30 different members by 1979. In 1971 Gérard Hourbette and Thierry Zaboïtzeff became members of the group. In 1975 the group was renamed Art Zoyd 3, as more and more members from different bands joined Art Zoyd. They played under this name as the opening act for Magma and released their debut album Symphonie pour le jour ou bruleront les cites (1976) under this name. Then the band paused for three years due to changing line-ups and personal problems and called themselves Art Zoyd again.
After releasing their third album, Art Zoyd toured Europe in the 1980s. Soundtracks to silent films from the 1920s, for example by Friedrich Murnau and Benjamin Christensen, have played a key role in Art Zoyd's work . Other albums contain music for ballet performances and theater festivals.
In 2015 Art Zoyd celebrated the 44½-year existence of the band for the first time at the Rock in Opposition Festival in Carmaux, where they played a retrospective of their work in a two-hour concert. From the original line-up from 1976, Thierry Zaboïtzeff and Jean-Pierre Soarez were back on stage, as were Daniel Denis from Univers Zéro .
Members
The group Art Zoyd had changing ensemble members in the course of their band history. Not all of the people listed are still members of the band.
- Gérard Hourbette (keyboard, sampler, computer; composer, conductor, † 2018)
- Thierry Zaboïtzeff (e-bass, cello, percussion; composer)
- Jean-Pierre Soarez (trumpet, cornet, percussion)
- Daniel Denis (drums, percussion)
- Kasper T. Toeplitz (bass, computer; composer)
- Patricia Dallio (keyboard, sampler, computer; composer)
- Daniel Koskowitz (drums, percussion; composer)
- Yukari Bertocchi-Hamada (keyboard, computer, sampler; composer)
- Didier Pietton (saxophone; no longer member)
- Laurent Dailleau ( theremin , computer)
- Jérôme Soudan (clarinet, drums)
- Serge Bertocchi (alto, baritone, soprano saxophone)
- Andrew Russo (piano)
- Erik Baron (bass, computer)
- André Mergenthaler (cello, alto saxophone)
- Carl Faia (computer, video)
Discography
- 1969 - Sangria / Something in Love (Single)
- 1976 - Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités (as Art Zoyd 3)
- 1979 - Musique pour l'odyssée
- 1980 - Génération sans futur
- 1981 - Symphonie pour le jour où brûleront les cités (new recording with guest musicians)
- 1982 - phase IV
- 1982 - Manège , recorded at the Palais des Sport, Toulouse 1976, (single)
- 1983 - Les Espaces inquiets
- 1983 - L'Étrangleur est derrière nous (musique pour la pièce de théâtre) (only as a cassette)
- 1985 - Le Mariage du Ciel et de l'Enfer
- 1987 - Berlin
- 1988 - Nosferatu
- 1990 - Art Zoyd, JA Deane and J. Greinke
- 1990 - Valentine Petit-Etreintes
- 1993 - Editions Atlas - Les Génies Du Rock - 38 (Sampler with Magma and Art Zoyd)
- 1993 - marathon race
- 1995 - Faust
- 1997 - Häxan
- 2001 - uBIQUe
- 2002 - Metropolis
- 2002 - Experience De Vol # 1, 2, 3
- 2005 - Experience De Vol # 4, 5, 6
- 2006 - Le champ des larmes
- 2008 - La chute de la maison Usher
- 2010 - Experience De Vol # 7 - Pure Noise
- 2010 - Experience De Vol # 8 - Nordin Reich Robinson Stockhausen
- 2011 - Experience De Vol # 9 - Alenjandro Viñao - Chicos del 21
- 2011 - eye catcher
- 2012 - Armageddon - Opérette Pour Robots
- 2017 - Dangerous Visions (with Orchester Nationale de Lille)
- 2017 - 44 1/2 Live + Unreleased ( Cuneiform Records )
- 2018 - Experience De Vol # 10, 11, 12, 13
- 2018 - phase V.
Web links
- Official website (English, French)
- Art Zoyd on the baby blue pages
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary in Progrock.dt ( Memento of the original dated May 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
