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Denis Frajerman
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French composer born in 1967. French => here The beginnings Born in a family keen on art, music and literature, he was greatly influenced as a child, by the French songs of Brel, Brassens, Ferrat, jazz and baroque music. Other inspirations came to hone his interests, the Hungarian group Kolinda, and the albums of Angelique Ionatos... He studied literature, and thought for a while to become a writer, when at age 19 he discovers contemporary dance at the Avignon festival in South of France, and is fascinated by their music. He then slowly abandons literature for music. He takes lessons in classical guitar, followed by jazz, from age 9 to 21. In 1988, a friend introduces him to Philippe Perreaudin during a Parisian festival called Musiques de Traverses. They are both impressed by the cast : Blurt, Annie Anxiety and The Ex. It’s then that they start experimenting with sound. Denis on “bruitiste” guitar and Philippe on analog keyboards and drums. They are marked by the experimental and industrial scene of the period, with groups like Etron fou Leloublan, Blurt, The Residents, Faust, Art Zoyd, Tuxedomoon, Wire, Minimal Compact, the list is much longer. Very rapidly, Denis chooses the bass guitar, and they rehearse as a trio with a viola. The owners of their rehearsal studio adore their one and only piece giving an oriental feel to Gilgamesh and record it on an 8-track tape-recorder. The viola leaves and the two friends find through adverts, two musicians 15 years older: Philippe Masson (clarinet) and Jacques Barberi (sax). The chemistry is immediate and the four of them form [https://fr. .org/wiki/Palo_Alto_(groupe) Palo Alto] in 1989. Solo career Denis Frajerman is greatly influenced by ethnic musics, from the Balkans, the Middle-East, and also jazz and classical music. He freely uses polyrhythms his compositions. Working on electroaccoustics is also a passion of his. He always mixes magnetic tracks to his first compositions. Sound is most important. He brings a particular care to his mixings, never using a computer but a tape-recorder K7-4 track, followed by a tape-recorder 8 tracks and nowadays a numerical tape-recorder 24 tracks and an analog mixing table 32 voices with some special effects added... K7 years and the meet with Antoine Volodine - In 1995 the french label Prikosnovénie make an order a K7 for his collection Miniatures (Miniature 19). They are beautifull objects of 5’ to face. The K7 is called Drosophiles : - In 1997 the french label Organic make an order two K7: Le Nom des arbres (with an original text from Jacques Barbéri) and Mandibules illustreted by Stéphane Blanquet. Le Nom des arbres 0T048 Jacques Barbéri : saxophone-texte Sonia Deluze : design Omer Pesquer : design Denis Frajerman : composition Nathalie Dray : vocals Sylvain Treuil, Gérard Bôman : percussion Philippe Perreaudin : voice Philippe Masson : clarinette Mandibules 0T050 Sylvain Treuil and Gérard Bôman : percussion illustreted by Stéphane Blanquet - In 1996, was born the first collaboration with Antoine Volodine for the program Clair de Nuit on France Culture : Quatre poèmes en prose d’Antoine Volodine total duration: 13’49 That is the first time he compose for string and record them. Quatre poèmes en prose d’Antoine Volodine Jacques Barbéri : alto saxophone Régis Codur : électric guitar Denis Frajerman : keyboards, tapes Emmanuelle Frantz : violin Hélène Frissung: violin Aline Lebert : voice Aurore Pingard : cello Éric Roger : trompet, cornet Antoine Volodine : narrator [https://fr. .org/wiki/Herv%C3%A9_Z%C3%A9nouda Hervé Zénouda] : percussion The years 2000 Denis Frajerman sign in 1998 with the Yann Farcy label : Noise Museum (ex cult label l’Invitation au suicide) for tree albums. Les Suites Volodine, 1998 ; Fasmes (1999) ; Macau Peplum (1999). Les Suites Volodine Jacques Barbéri : alto saxophone Sandrine Bonnet : percussion, voice Régis Codur : electric guitar Denis Frajerman: keyboards, bass, percussion, exotic instruments Marc Resconi : trombone Eric Roger : cornet Hervé Zénouda : percussion CD with an original text from Antoine Volodine Fasmes Jacques Barbéri : saxophone Sandrine Bonnet : voice Régis Codur : guitar Denis Frajerman: keyboards, bass, percussion, exotic instruments Eric Roger : cornet Hervé Zénouda : zarb Macau Peplum Jacques Barbéri: alto saxophone, choirs Sandrine Bonnet: vocals, percussion, keyboards Denis Frajerman: keyboards, bass, percussion, exotic instruments, choirs Frédéric d’Oliveira : percussion Yannick Lemesle : violin, clarinet, vocals Arnaud Ouvrard : percussion Philippe Perreaudin : computer Eric Roger : cornet, vocals Susannah Rooke : voice Hervé Zénouda : zarb With a strong interest in literature and orality as a musician, he collaborates regularly with storytellers and writers for radio sessions, oratorios, or records. Strongly linked to the work of Antoine Volodine, his first solo album, Les Suites Volodine (Noise Musem/Naïve, 1999), was directly influenced by his writings. They both share a taste for haunting atmospheres, black humor, witchcraft. Volodine and Frajerman also worked on creations, Des Anges Mineurs, post-exotic oratorio composed for six musicians, singer, narrator, dancer and videographer (La Cigale, 2000), and ' for eleven musicians, ordered by the Radiophonic Creation Workshops of France Culture (2004). The broadcasting on Radio France of this last work was followed by a residency at the Lieu Unique, National Theatre of Nantes for the concert version. In 2003 is out the initiativ of Jacques Barbéri, Le Souffle du vide, a CDr of old tapes limited to 50, where the solitary work on magnetic tapes is first. The album is out on Palo Alto records , [https://www.discogs.com/fr/label/48094-Halte-Aux-Records-! Halte aux Records]. His interest growing for string composition, he founds a rather special quartet, The Frajerman string quartet with Hélène Frissung on violin, Fanny Kobus on viola, Carole Deville on cello, and himself on bass guitar and pre-recorded background tracks. They perform about 15 concerts from 2000 at 2005, and produce a live album in 2003 with the Laurent Rochelle label Linoleum. He create a short-lived nightmare pop group, The Blizzard Sow with the poet Guillaume/William Boppe and takes on the pseudonym El Faroud. They invent a mythologie peopled with redneck, bayou and blizzard… They record an album Baagou music in 2004 on the neofolk French label Cynffeird. They cary on recording but do not find any label for their out-of-sync pop and they shut down their activities few years later. In 2008 a produces Vociférations, cantopera under the label Le Cluricaun. Vociférations Jacques Barbéri: alto saxophone Stephano Cavazzini: drums Carole Deville: cello Denis Frajerman: keyboards, magnetic tapes, rythms Hélène Frissung: violin Keny II: sampler, rythmes additionnels Fanny Kobus: viola Lise N: whispers Géraldine Ros: vocals Antoine Volodine: narrator The years 2010 The beginning of the 2010 years are dire. No more labels, no more concerts. Except a major event: a new collaboration with Antoine Volodine in 2015. Writing music for Terminus Radieux at La Maison de la Poésie in Paris, for two mezzo-soprano (Justine Schaeffer and Emilie Nicot), a cellist (Carole Deville) and himself on folk guitar. Another album, ', in preparation for some years, doesn’t find and interested label. Denis Frajerman works hard on remixing this highly orchestred, with numerous guests : strings, winds, female voices and Rhys Chattham on trumpet. Rivières de la nuit Guillaume Boppe: texts Rhys Chattham: trumpet : cymbals Carole Deville: cello Denis Frajerman: guitars, maracas, small percussion, gratin dish, Indian bells, wooden cheese grater Hélène Frissung: violin Cassandre Girard: flute Fanny Kobus: viola Sophie M: vocals Daniel Palomo-Vinuesa: saxophones Laurent Rochelle: bass clarinet, soprano saxophone Géraldine Ros: vocals Justine Schaffer: voice, vocals Loïc Schild: drums, percussion, cymbals Thereafter, conception and production last 7 years. Finnaly, in 2017, he self produces this album under his mark . He distributes himself in France, but fails to find interest elsewhere. However, Petra Gehrmann/Metisse music, his . faithfull editor, deals with promotion abroad, and the album becomes very popular in the underground movement, and is played on many national radios. The writer Xavier Boissel finds in its inspiration for his same-named ' (Editions Inculte) The coming out of this album wa followed by a serioes of concert in Paris, where he write the music for the book of poems by Guillaume Boppe, Le Coude is himself on bass, and accompagnied by David Fenech on guitar, Carole Deville on cello, Justine Schaeffer on voice. He also accompagnies live, his friend Klimperei (aka Christophe Petchanaz). In 2018, another album is published, influenced by the post-exotic universe of Antoine Volodine: Herbes et golems, under the German label Psych.KG. Denis Frajerman plays all the instruments: guitars, bass, shakers, percussion, gratin dish, indian bells, cheese grater, wind instruments, keyboards, voice, music box, magnetic tracks recordings of nature noises… In 2019, he signs with the mythical Austrian label Klanggalerie, a two part album, Wastelands / Lawrence of Arabia. Wastelands comprises for lyrical pieces dominated by the haunting voice of Susannah Rooke. Jérémy Chinour: drums Carole Deville: cello Hélène Frissung: violin Denis Frajerman: guitar, bass, keyboards Laurent Rochelle: bass clarinet, soprano saxophone Susannah Rooke: voice Quentin Rollet: sopranino saxophone Extracts from TS Elliott, The Waste Land, titles of album and pieces chosen by Susannah Rooke. The latter appears in other works by Denis Frajerman: Macau Peplum and the album Trash et Artères of Palo Alto. Lawrence of Arabia. Comprises mainly titles written for compilations, like those of Yann Pilas / No records and two covers: one of Minimal Compact and one of Amon Düül II. Claude Chalhoub: violin Carole Deville: cello Denis Frajerman: keyboards, bass, guitar, percussion, voice, tapes Hélène Frissung: violin Fanny Kobus: viola Loïc Schild: zarb, percussion Daniel Palomo-Vinuesa: soprano saxophone Quentin Rollet: sopranino saxophone Guy Maddin, Stéphane Blanquet, cinema, live shows In 1997 he creates with the choregraph Sandrine Bonnet, the Co. Le Chiendent based on fusion between contemporary dance and live music. The first work comprises dance solo, musician on invented instruments and slide of the artist Philippe Demontaux. The second outing counts a wider collaboration: tree dancers and tree musicians (Régis Codur on guitar, Denis Frajerman on bass, Jérémy Chinour on drums - the later becoming the composer’s own designer, and a guest for some concerts Yannick Lemesle on violin and clarinet). The Co. then tours successfully in festivals of contemporary and new music in France. The Co. Le Chiendent still exists nowadays but under another format. In 1998, he meets the artist Stephane Blanquet. A producer had asked him to produce a series of short films for Canal+ on the theme [https://fr. .org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Blanquet Vivement l’An 2000]. Denis Frajerman did write the music and soundtracks of his films. From the beginning of his solo career, through his good friends, distributors and editors of DVD Ed Distribution, Denis Frajerman forges a lasting friendship with the Canadian film maker Guy Maddin. The latter used lots of Denis Frajerman’String Quartet for two of his short films in 2004: Sissy-Boy Slap Party, and Sombra Dolorosa. In 2003, he takes part in the sound track of Les Frileux de la Terre, a medium-lenght film by Christophe Le Borgne, for Canal+. He writes for producers Fabrice Vacher et Claire Judrin for two documentaries : Avenue Jenny in 2005 and Club Bigoudi in 2007. From 2008, he starts a close collaboration with the storyteller Valérie Briffaud, Co Les Emus, who works in object theatre. He writes the music for a show for the very young, Les Poules, then L’Echappée, splendid show for all public, where alone on scene with a Bicycle and small accessories, Valérie Briffaud tells us a poignant story. A great fan of the Art of puppetry, he had discovered a very young artist, Cristina Iosif, at a festival in 2011. He then shares his music with her, and in 2017, she asks him to take part in the sound track of her new show called Harmonie. Solos albums Wastelands / Lawrence of Arabia (CD, Klanggalerie) - 2019 Herbes et golems (CD, Psych.KG) - 2018 Rivières de la Nuit (CD + LP, Douzième lune) - 2017 Vociférations, with Antoine Volodine (CD, France Culture / Le Cluricaun) - 2008 Frâjerman String Quartet (CD, Linoleum) - 2004 Le Souffle du Vide (CDr, archives 92-95, Halte aux Records) - 2003 Macau Peplum (CD, Noise Museum/Naïve) - 2000 Le Civisme en chanson (CD, Tremplin théâtre) - 1999 Fasmes (CD, Noise Museum/Naïve) - 1999 Les Suites Volodine (CD, Noise Museum/Naïve) - 1998 Mandibules (K7, Organic) - 1997 Le Nom des arbres (K7, Organic) - 1997 With The Blizzard Sow Baagou music (Cynfeirdd) - 2004 With Palo Alto About dozen albums since 1989 Links https://denisfrajerman.com https://denisfrajermanlabeldouzimelune.bandcamp.com/ https://www.metisse-music.com/fr/artists/Denis%20Frajerman https://www.blanquet.com/ https://www.linoleum-records.com/shop https://www.norecords.bandcamp.com/ https://www.discogs.com/fr/label/89882-E-Klageto https://www.klanggalerie.com/gg292 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4omne0aI2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAXM_P19jQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXh3KCmQqmc https://www.rumbatraciens.com/paloalto/site.php 
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