Fred Avril Magnon is a French composer based in Montmartre, Paris. As a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, he won international praise for two albums that showed a strong link with cinema.

Biography

Avril got his start in film music in 2008 with Hong-Kong acclaimed director

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. His quasi-musical Man Jeuk's soundtrack was nominated at both the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, the film being a box-office hit in China. Fred Avril won the Stockholm Music Award with Swedish film Sound of Noise ( Semaine de la critique, Cannes) about "sonic bombing". He then composed the score for the indie feature "The Lifeguard" ( Liz W. Garcia) with Kristen Bell, that premiered in Sundance. Other projects featured singers Mick Harvey (former member of the Bad Seeds) and late

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. He co-composed with Marianne Elise the song in French box-office success

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introducing Camille Cottin. In 2018, he composed the main theme for The Hook Up Plan. The music was uploaded by fans on

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and was streamed more than 5 million times throughout the world before being released by

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. Avril also writes orchestral music, such as I Am Not an Easy Man. He won the Emile Award for Best Soundtrack for an Animated Series with adult manga series Lastman.

Film soundtracks

TV series soundtracks

Discography

Personal albums

* ''Now It's Spring'' (2000) (F Com) * ''That Horse Must Be Starving'' (2002) (F Com) * ''Members Only'' (2004) (F Com)

Original soundtracks

* ''Sparrow'' (CD, Naive 2008) * ''Sound of Noise'' (CD, Hybris, 2010) * ''Les Bêtises'' Cine Music Club (2014) * ''Connasse, Princesse des Coeurs'' (CD, Milan, 2015) * ''Lastman'' (Vinyl, Everybody On Deck, 2017) (sold out) * ''I Am Not an Easy Man'' (Plaza Mayor, 2018) * ''Pearl'' (Plaza Mayor, 2019) * ''Qui m'aime me suive'' (Plaza Mayor, 2019) * ''Plan Coeur'' (BMG US, 2019)

Other records

* ''Hollywood mon amour'' (« This Is Not America » cover featuring

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) (PIAS 2008) *

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Album ''Bande à part'' arrangement and production (Peacefrog 2006) * Temposhark Invisible Ink Remix (Paper and Glue 2005) * Olga Kouklaki, ''I U Need'' arrangement and production (EMI 2011) * Stephan Eicher, ''L'Envolée'' composition and production p(Barclay/Universal, 2012)

Awards and nominations

, - , 2002 , ''That Horse Must Be Starving'' , Prix Constantin , , - , 2008 , '' Sparrow'' ,

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, , - , 2008 , '' Sparrow'' ,

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, , - , 2010 , Sound of Noise , Stockholm Film Festival Music Award , , - , 2018 , Best soundtrack in an animated series in Europe for ''Lastman'' , Emile Award ,

References

External links

*http://www.fred-avril.com *http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=1981 *http://www.rfimusique.com/musiquefr/articles/060/article_12960.asp {{DEFAULTSORT:Avril French electronic musicians People from Agen Living people 1974 births