Friday, 30 May 2008
Didier Marouani
Artist: Didier Marouani
Genre(s):
Other
Electronic
Discography:
Space-Opera
Year: 1987
Tracks: 8
Le Gagnant
Year: 1979
Tracks: 7
Paris - France Transit
Year:
Tracks: 8
Synthesizer-playing composer Didier Marouani is the origination penis of the French synth-pop stripe Space. He was classically trained as a pianist at the Paris Conservatoire, merely recorded his first album as a isaac Merrit Singer in 1975. Space was formed by Marouani in 1977, after he distinct to focus more on composition. The group's biggest outside success came after that year with the singles "Magic Fly," which hit the U.K.'s Top Ten and, to a lesser extent, "Acquit on Turn Me On," both of which appeared on charts in a number of countries. Space toured and recorded for the next few eld and continued to take in well-received records, although no singles duplicated the success of "Conjuring trick Fly." After several albums, a rift occurred in the band; 1980's Deeper Zone, recorded under the name of Space, was in reality an album by band members Roland Romanelli and Jannick Top, wHO took over and unbroken the ring list, just went comparatively unnoticed. This was the last album by Space, merely the visualise continued with Marouani, wHO had scripted Space's music (under the assumed name Ecama) anyway. And so Marouani continued to record book and execute -- as Didier Marouani & Space, so as Didier Marouani & Paris-France-Transit (PFT) -- to very much success. In the Summer of 1983, he toured the U.S.S.R., drawing huge crowds in cities including Kiev and Moscow. Four old age later, Marouani recorded his opera for choirs and synthesizers, Space Opera. The recording session was an international feat, delivery together choirs from the U.S. (John Harvard University Choir) and U.S.S.R. (Red River Army Choir). Apparently, a copy of Space Opera was assign in the MIR space station. In other space-related activities, Marouani performed in Cayenne (capitol Building of French Guiana) at the 1990 jubilation of the one-tenth anniversary of the Ariane arugula launch. He returned to Russia for some other successful tour the following class and once more during the early '90s for a historical public presentation in Red Square that included an extensive laser light show. The late '90s brought a reprint of the Space albums and the Best Of by Virgin France.
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