Peter von Poehl
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Sweden
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singer-songwriter, composer, musician and director.
He was the guitar
Guitar
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ist for A.S. Dragon
A.S. Dragon
A.S. Dragon is a French rock group, consisting of the members Stéphane Salvi , Michaël Garçon , David Forgione remplace Fred Jimenez and Hervé Bouétard . Natacha Le Jeune quit the group in 2007....
, once the backing band for Bertrand Burgalat
Bertrand Burgalat
Bertrand Burgalat is a French musician, composer and producer.- Background :Bertrand Burgalat was born in the Corsican town of Bastia in 1963...
and in Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq , born Michel Thomas, 26 February 1958—or 1956 —on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French author, filmmaker and poet. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire;...
's album Présence humaine (2000). He has since collaborated with other artists, such as Doriand (Le Grand bain), Lio (Dites au prince charmant), Marie Modiano (I'm Not a Rose) and Florian Horwath (We Are All Gold), with whom he founded the Graeferecordings label in Berlin
Berlin
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His first album, Going to Where the Tea-Trees Are, was published by the French
France
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label Tôt ou tard
Tôt ou tard
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on 9 May 2006.
He has since produced Vincent Delerm
Vincent Delerm
Vincent Delerm is a French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer. He is the son of the writer Philippe Delerm....
's third album, Les Piqûres d'araignée (2006), in which he participates in one song, Marine. He is now on a long series of tours, most notably as the opening act for Phoenix
Phoenix (band)
Phoenix is a Grammy Award winning French indie rock band from Versailles, founded by Thomas Mars, Deck d'Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz.-Formation and early years:...
(autumn 2006) and Air (spring 2007). He played at the Eurockéennes
Eurockéennes
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2007 in Belfort
Belfort
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His second album, May Day, was released in February 2009. He played new songs from this album during a series of live shows in La Maroquinerie (Paris), at the beginning of July 2008.
Discography
- Going to Where the Tea-Trees Are (2006)
- Going to Where the Tea-Trees Are
- Tooth Fairy Tale
- Travelers
- Virgin Mountains
- A Broken Skeleton Key
- Global Conspiracy
- Scorpion Grass
- The Story of the Impossible
- Tooth Fairy Tale Part II
- The Lottery
- Little Creatures
- The Bell Tolls Five
- May Day (2009)
- Parliament
- Dust of Heaven
- Forgotten Garden
- Near the End of the World
- Carrier Pigeon
- Mexico
- Mexico Part II
- Moon Shot Falls
- May Day
- Wombara
- Lost in Space
- Silent as Gold
- Elisabeth
- An Eye for an Eye