Olivier Manchion
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Olivier Manchion is a French musician born in Suresnes
, near Paris
.
In 1987 he started to perform on bass guitar together with Amaury Cambuzat. They founded Ulan Bator
in 1993. They start to release albums in 1995 on Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier
label. From 1995 to 1998 their studio recording is based in a disused chalkmine in Bougival
("Cradle of Impressionism"), near Paris
. In 1996 meets Jean-Hervé Péron and starts immediately a long friendship and collaboration with Faust
. The first musical meeting being entitled (and released later) as "Collectif Met(z)". Thenafter, in 1997, a French/Swiss tour as "Faust including Ulan Bator". From 1995 to 1998, Olivier also performs several times with Sleaze Art, a 30 guitars collective by Kasper T. Toeplitz (Ircam). Among others, "Zora Mudd" performances at la Fondation Cartier (1995, Paris-fr), Macba (1996, and Barcelona-sp), Musique Action festival (1998, Nancy-fr). During the summer 1998, contributes to some sessions for "Only Chaos Is Real" by Richard Pinhas's Heldon
, together with Maurice Dantec, Norman Spinrad
, Antoine and Bernard Paganotti (Magma
). Also started the ORA project together with Cambuzat and Ron Anderson (The Molecules
). In 2000 is released one of the most popular Ulan Bator album, "Ego:Echo
" (produced by Michael Gira
), followed in 2002 by "OK:KO", a collection of "Ego:Echo" demo sessions and live recordings.
In 2001 (September), Olivier left Ulan Bator and founded Permanent Fatal Error
. He recorded "Law Speed
", first PFE album, in 2003 (released in 2004). In 2003 and 2004 performed with Damo Suzuki's Network (Can
) in France and Italy. Released "Hollyaris" from a Paris performance. In 2005 he's invited by Werner "Zappi" Diermaier and Jean-Hervé Péron to join again Faust
, together with Amaury Cambuzat. They toured together in the Uk ("... In Autumn" release by Dirter) and France in 2005/06. From summer 2005 to spring 2007, he's back into Ulan Bator
, and tours Italy, France and Sloveny. In the same period also performing as Cargo Culte in duo with Cambuzat (improvised music). Among his other projects : Bias! (with Xabier Iriondo), French Doctors (a collective of French improvisers). Also, he's been artistic artistic producer for Osaka Bondage (Fr, 1999), Viclarsen (it, 2005) and Lule Kaine (it, 2006), and some of his 'Pfe' recordings were used as arrangements on "Home is where the studio is" by That Summer
(fr, 2002).
Late 2007 he's working on a new Permanent Fatal Error
recording, and starting a collaboration with the Italian painter Simone Pellegrini.
Ulan Bator
Faust
Damo Suzuki's Network
BIAS! duo, w/ Xabier Iriondo
Heldon
w/ Richard Pinhas, Maurice dantec, Norman Spinrad...
Suresnes
Suresnes is a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris. The nearest communes are Neuilly-sur-Seine, Puteaux, Rueil-Malmaison, Saint-Cloud and Boulogne-Billancourt...
, near Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
.
In 1987 he started to perform on bass guitar together with Amaury Cambuzat. They founded Ulan Bator
Ulan Bator (band)
Ulan Bator is a French experimental post-rock band founded in 1993 by Amaury Cambuzat and Olivier Manchion. They got their name from Ulan Bator, the capital city of Mongolia...
in 1993. They start to release albums in 1995 on Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier
Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier
Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier , or DSA, is a French record label created in the '80s by Gerard Nguyen, already author of the fanzine Atem, and producer of the duo Kas Product...
label. From 1995 to 1998 their studio recording is based in a disused chalkmine in Bougival
Bougival
Bougival is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the center....
("Cradle of Impressionism"), near Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. In 1996 meets Jean-Hervé Péron and starts immediately a long friendship and collaboration with Faust
Faust (band)
Faust are a German krautrock band. Formed in 1971 in Wümme, the group was originally composed of Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Hervé Péron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunther Wüsthoff, working with record producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner.-History:Faust...
. The first musical meeting being entitled (and released later) as "Collectif Met(z)". Thenafter, in 1997, a French/Swiss tour as "Faust including Ulan Bator". From 1995 to 1998, Olivier also performs several times with Sleaze Art, a 30 guitars collective by Kasper T. Toeplitz (Ircam). Among others, "Zora Mudd" performances at la Fondation Cartier (1995, Paris-fr), Macba (1996, and Barcelona-sp), Musique Action festival (1998, Nancy-fr). During the summer 1998, contributes to some sessions for "Only Chaos Is Real" by Richard Pinhas's Heldon
Heldon
Heldon is a French electronic rock band created in 1974. The name of the band was taken from the 1972 novel The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad....
, together with Maurice Dantec, Norman Spinrad
Norman Spinrad
Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author.Born in New York City, Spinrad is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. In 1957 he entered City College of New York and graduated in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree as a pre-law major. In 1966 he moved to San Francisco,...
, Antoine and Bernard Paganotti (Magma
Magma
Magma is a mixture of molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets. Besides molten rock, magma may also contain suspended crystals and dissolved gas and sometimes also gas bubbles. Magma often collects in...
). Also started the ORA project together with Cambuzat and Ron Anderson (The Molecules
The Molecules
The Molecules or Molecules is a band.Ron Anderson formed the Molecules with Chris Millner and Tom Scandura in 1990, a “hyper-brid” style of music, that combined free improvised noise and notes with tightly arranged angular songs...
). In 2000 is released one of the most popular Ulan Bator album, "Ego:Echo
Ego:Echo
Ego: Echo is the fourth album by French post-rock band Ulan Bator. It was produced by Michael Gira, former member of the band Swans and head of Young God Records...
" (produced by Michael Gira
Michael Gira
Michael Rolfe Gira is an American musician, author, and artist. He is the main force behind the recently reformed New York City musical group Swans and fronts the Angels of Light...
), followed in 2002 by "OK:KO", a collection of "Ego:Echo" demo sessions and live recordings.
In 2001 (September), Olivier left Ulan Bator and founded Permanent Fatal Error
Permanent Fatal Error
Permanent Fatal Error is a new musical project by Olivier Manchion, Ulan Bator founder member, and long time Faust collaborator. PFE first album is entitled Law Speed and was released in 2004 by Wallace Records, Ruminance, Klangbad...
. He recorded "Law Speed
Law Speed
Law Speed is the first album by French/Italian post-rock band Permanent Fatal Error, a project by Olivier Manchion, founder member of the band Ulan Bator...
", first PFE album, in 2003 (released in 2004). In 2003 and 2004 performed with Damo Suzuki's Network (Can
Can (band)
Can was an experimental rock band formed in Cologne, West Germany in 1968. Later labeled as one of the first "krautrock" groups, they transcended mainstream influences and incorporated strong minimalist and world music elements into their often psychedelic music.Can constructed their music largely...
) in France and Italy. Released "Hollyaris" from a Paris performance. In 2005 he's invited by Werner "Zappi" Diermaier and Jean-Hervé Péron to join again Faust
Faust (band)
Faust are a German krautrock band. Formed in 1971 in Wümme, the group was originally composed of Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Hervé Péron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunther Wüsthoff, working with record producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner.-History:Faust...
, together with Amaury Cambuzat. They toured together in the Uk ("... In Autumn" release by Dirter) and France in 2005/06. From summer 2005 to spring 2007, he's back into Ulan Bator
Ulan Bator (band)
Ulan Bator is a French experimental post-rock band founded in 1993 by Amaury Cambuzat and Olivier Manchion. They got their name from Ulan Bator, the capital city of Mongolia...
, and tours Italy, France and Sloveny. In the same period also performing as Cargo Culte in duo with Cambuzat (improvised music). Among his other projects : Bias! (with Xabier Iriondo), French Doctors (a collective of French improvisers). Also, he's been artistic artistic producer for Osaka Bondage (Fr, 1999), Viclarsen (it, 2005) and Lule Kaine (it, 2006), and some of his 'Pfe' recordings were used as arrangements on "Home is where the studio is" by That Summer
That Summer
That Summer is Sarah Dessen's first novel, published in 1996. The movie How to Deal is based on this novel as well as another one of Dessen's novels, Someone Like You....
(fr, 2002).
Late 2007 he's working on a new Permanent Fatal Error
Permanent Fatal Error
Permanent Fatal Error is a new musical project by Olivier Manchion, Ulan Bator founder member, and long time Faust collaborator. PFE first album is entitled Law Speed and was released in 2004 by Wallace Records, Ruminance, Klangbad...
recording, and starting a collaboration with the Italian painter Simone Pellegrini.
Main discography
Permanent Fatal ErrorPermanent Fatal Error
Permanent Fatal Error is a new musical project by Olivier Manchion, Ulan Bator founder member, and long time Faust collaborator. PFE first album is entitled Law Speed and was released in 2004 by Wallace Records, Ruminance, Klangbad...
- Law SpeedLaw SpeedLaw Speed is the first album by French/Italian post-rock band Permanent Fatal Error, a project by Olivier Manchion, founder member of the band Ulan Bator...
2004 album, cd (Wallace, Ruminance, Klangbad)
Ulan Bator
Ulan Bator (band)
Ulan Bator is a French experimental post-rock band founded in 1993 by Amaury Cambuzat and Olivier Manchion. They got their name from Ulan Bator, the capital city of Mongolia...
- UlaanbaatarUlaanbaatarUlan Bator or Ulaanbaatar is the capital and largest city of Mongolia. An independent municipality, the city is not part of any province, and its population as of 2008 is over one million....
2007 album unreleased material 1993-98, cd (Jestrai, Ruminance) - OK:KO 2002 album live/demo, cd (Ursula minor)
- Echo#5 2000, 45rpm (Ruminance)
- Ego:EchoEgo:EchoEgo: Echo is the fourth album by French post-rock band Ulan Bator. It was produced by Michael Gira, former member of the band Swans and head of Young God Records...
2000 album, cd (Sonica, Young God Records, Dsa) - D-Construction remixs, 1999, cd (Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier)
- PolairePolairePolaire was the stage name used by French singer and actress Émilie Marie Bouchaud .Born at Agha, Algiers, Algeria, according to her memoirs she was one of eleven children of whom only four - Emilie, her two brothers Edmond and Marcel, and a sister, Lucile - survived infancy...
1997 compilation, cd (Sonica) - VegetaleVegetaleVégétale is the third album by French post-rock band Ulan Bator.-Track listing:*All Lyrics By Amaury Cambuzat. All Music Written & Arranged By Ulan Bator.#"Lumiere Blanche / Schneetum" – 8:11#"Cephalopode" – 5:44#"Pekisch Organ" – 6:12...
1997 album, cd (Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier) - Ursula Minor 1996, 45rpm (Popov island records)
- 2 Degrees 1996 ep, cd (Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier)
- Ulan Bator s/t 1995 album, cd (Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier)
Faust
Faust (band)
Faust are a German krautrock band. Formed in 1971 in Wümme, the group was originally composed of Werner "Zappi" Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Arnulf Meifert, Jean-Hervé Péron, Rudolf Sosna and Gunther Wüsthoff, working with record producer Uwe Nettelbeck and engineer Kurt Graupner.-History:Faust...
- Trial and Error 2007, DVD (Fuenfundvierzig)
- ... In Autumn 2007, live, 3 cds box + 1 DVD (Dirter)
- Collectif Met(z) 2005, live/studio 3 cds box (Art-errorist)
- Connections 2005 DVD (mop-visioni)
- Impressions 2005 DVD (mop-visioni)
Damo Suzuki's Network
- Hollyaris 2005 live, 2 cds (fuenfundvierzig)
BIAS! duo, w/ Xabier Iriondo
- s/t 2005, ep, cd3 (Wallace)
Heldon
Heldon
Heldon is a French electronic rock band created in 1974. The name of the band was taken from the 1972 novel The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad....
w/ Richard Pinhas, Maurice dantec, Norman Spinrad...
- Only Chaos is Real 2001, 2 cds (Wagram)