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JEAN-PHILIPPE RYKIEL
"UNDER THE TREE"
Born blind in 1961, Jean-Philippe
Rykiel taught himself piano from a very early age. If he
recognizes the influence of Theolonius Monk as preponderant in
his decision to become a musician, it was on discovering Pierre
Henry that he became impassioned by the creative perspectives
offered by synthesizers. His technical mastery of the instrument
and his musical intuition rapidly brought him recognition by
his contemporaries, which provided him many experiences and collaborations
as programmer (from Vangelis to Vladimir Cosma), instrumentalist
(Steve Hillage, Jon Hassell, Didier Malherbe and numerous African
projects) or arranger (Xalam, Salif Keita, Leonard Cohen, Youssou
N'Dour). In 1992 he co-composed and co-produced "Eyes Open"
for Youssou N'Dour and their collaboration continued for the
worldwide hit album "Wommat/The Guide" in 1994.
Paralelling these multiple encounters, he followed a more personal
musical search which witenessed a first (and so far only) solo
album's appearancein 1982, a work steeped into musictherapy under
the direction of Dr. Patrick l'Echevin and music composed for
performances or for audiovisual (music for the film "Les
Pierres Bleues du Désert", participation in the OST
for "L'Enfant Lion", ads for Christian Dior's Eau Sauvage
and Dune, for Kenzo's Homme).
In 1994 he arranged and performed "The Lama's Chant"
an album of Tibetan prayers sung by Lama Gyurme. Released by
Sony Classical in 15 territories, "The Lama's Chant"
went gold in Spain and got brilliant reviews all around the world.
Titled "Rain Of Blessings/Vajra Chants", a new collaboration
with Lama Gyurme has been released by Real World Records in March
2000 .
During the last two decades, Jean-Philippe Rykiel has
been involved in many pioneering projects - from Salif Keita's
"Soro" to "The Lama's Chant" and has gained
a reputation as one of the world's foremost keyboard players
who also has impressive talents as a writer, arranger and producer.
2003 : "Under The Tree"
- Jean-Philippe Rykiel's second solo album in twenty years
! -, consists of ten songs all composed and played by the man
himself... Songs are meditative, transportive and spiced with
exotic flavours. Rykiel offers elegance, vitality, joy
and beauty which, in his case, is spelled m-u-s-i-c. And no lyrics
are needed because Rykiel's music says it all. A perfect
collection of songs to charm a heart, enlight a spirit and warm
a soul. Impressionistic and sunny soundscapes that exudes calming
and flowing cohesion.
Jean Philippe Rykiel
' s works
Solo
Jean-Philippe Rykiel - Musiza/Ariola
1982
Nunc Musics (Quiet Days In Tokyo) - Takdisc/WMD 1991
Nouvel album Last Call 2003
Duo
"Souhaits Pour L'Eveil"
avec Lama Gyurme- Last Call/Sony 1995
" Rain Of Blessings/Vajra Songs " avec Lama Gyurme
Real World Records 2000
Collaborations
Alexkid "Castlesmadeofsand"
instrumentiste, arrangeur F-Communications 1998
"WhatIdidOnMyHolidays" instrumentiste F-Communications
2001
"Bienvenida" instrumentiste F-Communications
2001
"Mint" - instrumentiste - F-Communications 2003
Amadou & Mariam "Wati" instrumentiste
Universal Music Jazz - 2002
Tim Blake "New Jerusalem" - instrumentiste - 1978
F.Cahen/D.Malherbe "Faton-Bloom" - instrumentiste
- Cryonic 1987
Leonard Cohen "I'm Your Man" - instrumentiste,
arrangeur - Sony 1988
Diogal "Samba Alla" instrumentiste Celluloid/Mélodie
2002
Mamadou Diallo "Contes D'Afrique De L'Ouest" -
compositeur, réalisation - CKT 1997
Brigitte Fontaine "French Corazon" - instrumentalist
- EMI 1990
"Vous Et Nous" - instrumentalist - 1977
"Kekeland" instrumentalist Virgin 2001
Jon Hassell "Power Spot" - instrumentiste - ECM
1986
"Surgeon Of The Nightsky" - instrumentiste - Intuition
1988
Jacques Higelin " Paradis Païen "
instrumentiste Tôt ou Tard/Warner 1998
Steve Hillage "Open" - instrumentiste - Virgin Records
1979
Jon &Vangelis "Friends Of Mr. Cairo" sound
designer - Polydor 1981
Lokua Kanza "Wapi Yo" - instrumentiste - BMG 1996
Kaoutal "Kaoutal" instrumentiste - Sony 1996
Salif Keita "Soro" - instrumentiste, arrangeur
- EMI 1987/Island 1994
"Folon" - instrumentiste, arrangeur, réalisation
- Island 1995
"Papa" - instrumentiste Island 1999
Oussemane Kouyaté "Domba" instrumentiste,
arrangeur , réalisation - Sterns 1989
Catherine Lara "Catherine Lara" - instrumentiste -
Trema 1983
"En Concert" - instrumentiste - Trema 1984
"Les Romantiques" - instrumentiste, compositeur, Trema
1993
Marcel Loeffler "Vago" - instrumentiste - Tam Tam 1996
Didier Malherbe "Fetish" - instrumentiste, compositeur
- Mantra 1989
"Zef" - instrumentiste - Tangram 1993
Youssou N'Dour "Nelson Mandela" - instrumentiste
- EMI 1985
"Eyes Open" - instrumentiste, arrangeur, compositeur,
réalisation - Sony 1992
"Wommat" - instrumentiste, arrangeur, compositeur,
réalisation - Sony 1994
"Joko" instrumentiste, arrangeur, réalisation
- Sony 2000
"Nothing's In Vain" instrumentiste Nonesuch/Warner
- 2002
Super Rail Band "Mansa" - instrumentiste - Label
Bleu 1996
Papa Wemba "Emotion" - instrumentiste - Real World
1995
Xalam "Apartheid" - instrumentiste - Melodie 1985
"Xarit" - instrumentiste, réalisation - BMG
1987
Advertising
Eau Sauvage (Christian
Dior)
Dune (Christian Dior)
Le Parfum (Sonia Rykiel)
Vichy Thermal S (Vichy)
Kenzo (Parfum Homme)
Movies / Documentaries
Les Pierres Bleues Du Désert (composition, réalisation)
L'Enfant Lion (instrumentiste)
Le Maître Des Eléphants (instrumentiste)
Journey To Enlightenment (compositeur - arrangeur)
Concerts/Tours
Tim Blake, Didier Malherbe,
Catherine Lara, Brigitte Fontaine et Areski (France/Japon),
Jon Hassell (Europe), Xalam, Youssou N'Dour (Europe, USA, Afrique),
Julia Sarr, Soriba Kouyaté,
The Jololi Revue (Youssou N'Dour, Cheik Lô, Yande Codou
Séné),
Lama Gyurme (Europe, USA, Asie)
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