Pascal Languirand

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Pascal Languirand (born May 3, 1955 in Paris ) is a Canadian musician. Under the project name Trans-X , he created a classic of synth pop in 1983 with the title Living On Video .

Life

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Living on Video
  DE 61 07/11/1983 (1 week)
Singles
Living on Video
  DE 4th 07/18/1983 (21 weeks)
  AT 9 October 15, 1983 (12 weeks)
  CH 2 08/28/1983 (10 weeks)
  UK 9 07/13/1985 (9 weeks)
  US 61 05/10/1986 (12 weeks)
Message on the radio
  DE 28 11/21/1983 (9 weeks)
3-D dance
  DE 58 03/19/1984 (3 weeks)

Until 1982

Languirand is the son of the author and television producer Jacques Languirand and grew up in the French-Canadian city of Québec and partly in Mexico . After discovering his interest in music as a teenager, he took up a degree in communications and electronic music at McGill University in Montreal after graduating from school . In 1978 his first album was released under the title Minos , which shows clear influences of the music of Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream . Languirand, who played all the instruments on the album himself, experimented on all the pieces with the possibilities that his synthesizer offered him.

On the follow-up album De harmonia universalia , which appeared in 1980, he increasingly turned to New Age music. He mixed the melodies of the synthesizer with elements of Gregorian chant . In 1981 he wrote the soundtrack for the Canadian television series Vivre ici maintenant, produced by his father .

Trans-X

Languirand achieved the greatest commercial success of his career with a piece that was atypical for his work. Together with the singer Laurie Gill (born July 18, 1964 in Montreal ) he recorded the album Living on Video in 1983 under the project name Trans-X . It was on it that Languirand tried an excursion into danceable pop music. The title track, which was released as a single, developed into a world hit. A total of two million copies were sold. It reached the top ten in the charts in Germany, Switzerland and Great Britain.

Of Living on Video numerous remixes and cover versions emerged, including from Trans-X itself, Pakito , Lazard or frozen plasma .

After 1984

After the global success with Trans-X, Languirand retired from the music business and lived in the United States . It was only after a seven-year break that an album, Gregorian Waves, was released again in 1991 , on which he musically continued his first two productions. In 2005 the last album so far was released under the title Incanta .

Pascal Languirand is a member of the Mexican Grupo Discolocos .

Discography

Albums

Pascal Languirand

  • Minos (1978)
  • De harmonia universalia (1980)
  • Vivre ici maintenant (Soundtrack, 1981)
  • Soma (with Jacques Languirand , 1989)
  • Gregorian Waves (1991)
  • Ishtar (1993)
  • Renaissance (2002)
  • Incanta (2005)

as Trans-X

  • Message on the Radio (1983)
  • Living on Video (1983, originally Canadian title: Message on the Radio )
  • On My Own (1988)
  • Trans-X'Xcess (1995)
  • 010101 (2001)
  • The Drag-Matic Album (2003)
  • Hi-NRG (2012)
  • Digital World (2013)
  • Anthology (2014)

Singles (as Trans-X)

  • Message on the Radio (1983)
  • Vivre sur vidéo (1983)
  • Living on Video (1983)
  • 3-D Dance (1984)
  • I Love You (1986)
  • Monkey Dance (1986)
  • Something's in the Air (1986)
  • Maria (1988)
  • To Be ... or Not to Be (1995)
  • Living on Video 2002 (2002)
  • LOV 2012 (2012)
  • Fascination 2012 (2012)
  • Imagination 2012 (2012)
  • Into the Light 2012 (2012)

Guest Posts

  • Video Night / Mirko Hirsch feat. Trans-X (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ Pascal Languirand, a Versatile Musical Style (English), Manuel Montes and Jorge Munnshe, Amazing Sounds, accessed on February 21, 2016
  3. ↑ Living on Video - Releases at Discogs
personal data
SURNAME Languirand, Pascal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trans-X (project name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris