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Pascal Paul Vincent Comelade (born June 30, 1955), is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

Catalan

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

musician.

Comelade born was in Montpellier

Montpellier

-Neighbourhoods:Since 2001, Montpellier has been divided into seven official neighbourhoods, themselves divided into sub-neighbourhoods. Each of them possesses a neighbourhood council....

, France

France

. After living for several years in Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, he made his first album, Fluences, influenced by electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

and by the group 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....

.

Subsequently, his music has become more acoustic and is characterised by the sounds of toy instruments, used as solo-instruments and as an integral part of the sound of his group, the Bel Canto Orquestra. In 2007 he did a Take-Away Show acoustic video session shot by Vincent Moon

Vincent Moon

Vincent Moon is an independent filmmaker from Paris mainly known for his field work music videos of indie rock related musicians as well as some notable mainstream artists like Tom Jones, R.E.M. or Arcade Fire. Besides making music videos he also makes experimental films and documentaries...

.

He has collaborated with many singers and musicians from diverse genres of music including Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...

, Dani

Dani (singer)

Dani is a French actress and singer born on 1 October 1944 in Castres, Tarn, France. Dani was meant to have been France's Eurovision Song Contest 1974 entry, but President Georges Pompidou died in the week of the competition, so she never entered Eurovision properly...

, Faust

Faust (band)

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, Christophe Miossec

Miossec

Christophe Miossec is a Breton singer and songwriter born in Brest, Brittany, France on December 24, 1964.-Beginnings:Christophe Miossec was not new to the world of music when he met his first great success. Between 14 and 17, he was in a teenage band, Printemps Noir , touring around Brest...

, Toti Soler, Jac Berrocal

Jac Berrocal

Jacques "Jac" Berrocal is a French trumpeter, singer and composer. He has been active since the 1970s in the independent and avant-garde music scene, and has released many albums. He also founded and performed in the group Catalogue, and has collaborated with Ron Anderson...

, Pierre Bastien

Pierre Bastien

Pierre Bastien is a French musician, composer, and experimental musical instrument builder. He began building mechanical-based musical instruments at an early age, using items such as metronomes, cymbals, and pulleys. In 1977 he began collaborating with Pascal Comelade and composing music for...

and P.J. Harvey to mention just a few.

Discography

1975 : Fluence
1978 :
- Séquences Paiennes
- Vertical Pianos
1980 :
- Paralelo
- Ready-Made
1981 : Slow Music

1982 :
- Sentimientos
- Irregular Organs
1983 :
- Fall Of Saigon
- Logique du Sens
1984 :
- La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser des Briques ?(with Cathy claret's voice).
- Bel Canto Orquestra
- Milano Enharmonisto
- Précis de Décomposition Bruitiste
- Scénes de Musique Ralentie
- Détail Monochrome

un titre inclu dans le disque
"cathy claret" delabel/virgin

1986 : Bel Canto
1987 : El Primitivismo
1988 :
- Impressionnismes
- Rock Del Veneno
1989 :
- 33 Bars
- Cent Regards
1991 :
- Ragazzin' The Blues
- Pataphysical Polka
- Haikus de Pianos
1992 :
- Traffic d'Abstraction
- Topographie Anecdotique
- El Ermitaño - with Bel Canto Orquestra
1993 : Yo Quiero Un Tebeo
1994 : Danses Et Chants de Syldavie
Syldavia
Syldavia is a fictional Balkan kingdom featured in The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé. The name was derived from TranSYLvania and MolDAVIA.-Overview:...
1995 : El Cabaret Galactic
1996 :
- Musiques Pour Films Vol.2
- Tango Del Rossello
- Un samedi Sur la Terre - Soundtrack
1997 :
- Un Tal Jazz
- Oblique Sessions - with Pierre Bastien
  Pierre Bastien
  Pierre Bastien is a French musician, composer, and experimental musical instrument builder. He began building mechanical-based musical instruments at an early age, using items such as metronomes, cymbals, and pulleys. In 1977 he began collaborating with Pascal Comelade and composing music for...
  
  , Jac Berrocal
  Jac Berrocal
  Jacques "Jac" Berrocal is a French trumpeter, singer and composer. He has been active since the 1970s in the independent and avant-garde music scene, and has released many albums. He also founded and performed in the group Catalogue, and has collaborated with Ron Anderson...
  
  and Jaki Liebezeit
  Jaki Liebezeit
  Jaki Liebezeit is a drummer probably best known as a founding member of Can who has been called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral"....
1998 :
- L'Argot du Bruit
- ZumZum.Ka
- Bel Canto Orquestra In Concerto
1999 :
- Musiques De Genre
- Live In Lisbon and Barcelona
- Oblique Sessions II - with Richard Pinhas
- Swing Slang Song
2000 :
- Aigua de Florida Classes de Música a la Granja - with Llorenç Balsach
- André Le Magnifique - Soundtrack (followed by 3 pieces written for the ballet "Spring man" by Ryohei Kondo and 6 pieces written for the ballet "Zumzum-ka" by Cesc Gelabert.)
- September Song - with Robert Wyatt
  Robert Wyatt
  Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...
- Pop Songs Del Rossello - with Gérard Jacquet
- Pastis Catalan - Music for the Musée d'Art moderne de Céret
  Céret
  Céret is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It is the capital of Vallespir historical Catalan comarca.-Geography:...
  
  (Limited Edition of 50 copies signed and numbered.)
2001 :
- La Isla Del Holandés - with José Manuel Pagan
- Pop Songs Del Rossello 2 - with Gérard Jacquet
2002 :
- Sense el Resso del Dring
- Psicotic Music' Hall
2003 :
- Logicofobisme del Piano en Minuscul
- Musica Pop (Danses de Catalunya Nord)
2004 :
- La Filosofia del Plat Combinat
- Back to Schizo 1975-1983
2005 : Espace Détente - Soundtrack
2006
- Espontex sinfonia
- La Manera Més Salvatge - with Enric Casasses
- Stranger In Paradigm
2008
- Compassió pel dimoni

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