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YVES ALTANA

composer/arranger/producer/musician/corsican

About Me

M/CR April 14th (yet again)
x Yves

Invincible, Wonky Alice, The Bardots and The Chrysalids guitar & keyboards player, also played bass with Molly Half Head and guitar with The Chameleons frontman Mark Burgess & The Sons of God, currently with BIRD.
Produced a variety of LPs mainly for guitar bands based in the UK, Germany and France.
Also currently working as a freelance sound-engineer/producer and writing new material for the recognized project.
Website alchemized

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/25/2005
Band Website: alchemized.free.fr
Influences: When I was 7yo I was into The Beatles, John Lennon, David Bowie, Claude Francois... and Zorro. :-) Then ACDC, Sparks, Lou Reed, Grand Master Flash, T.REX, Mick Ronson, Chic, and later on The Cure (early ones), The Clash, The Opposition, XTC, The Psychadelic Furs, The Police, The Stranglers, Talk-Talk, The Bunnymen, The Chameleons, John Mc Geoch, Julian Cope, Joy Division/New Order, Kate Bush, Magazine, Hubert Felix Thiefaine, Serge Gainsbourg, Depeche Mode, The Banshees, The Pixies, The Kitchens OD, Jacques Brel, Scott Walker (who is probably my all time fav singer) and too many more to remember... I'm also into Lamb, Jeff Buckley, Mercury Rev, Brian Eno, Radiohead (latest stuff), Recoil, Philip Glass, Massive Attack, The Verve, some REM, some minimal electro stuff... // ...not as many bands as I'd like to... but I still love Sparks! ... and Bowie, Bowie, Bowie, Bowie, Bowie, Bowie, Bowie, Bowie, Bowie....
Sounds Like: me when i'm up for it...
alchemized
Record Label: ALCHEMIZED
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Live CDs

Anyone interested in buying live CDs; INVINCIBLE "Black and Blue" - MARK BURGESS AND YVES ALTANA "Paradyning Live in Frankfurt '96" (12,00 euros each + p&p) and WONKY ALICE "Jelloid" ep (5,00 eur...
Posted by YVES ALTANA on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 05:06:00 PST