Patrick Vian (born 12 April 1942, in

Angoulême Angoulême (; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Engoulaeme''; oc, Engoleime) is a commune, the prefecture of the Charente department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France. The inhabitants of the commune are known as ''Angoumoisins'' o ...

) is a French musician. He played progressive rock music in the late 1960s with the band Red Noise, which recorded one album. In the 1970s, he composed music for a film and released one solo album, ''Bruits et Temps Analogues'', in 1976.

Biography

Vian is the son of French jazz trumpeter and poet

Boris Vian Boris Vian (; 10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer who is primarily remembered for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sulliva ...

. His father, who died when he was 17, nicknamed him "Bisonnot", "little bison". He was born during World War II and had a turbulent childhood in various places after his parents divorced, spending a long period of time in England and going to boarding school in Switzerland. He first gained notability as a guitar player with the

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...

band Red Noise (which was associated with Ame Son); the band formed at the

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in 1968, and played its first show during the occupation of the university. According to Vian, these were exciting times: he later commented that in Red Noise's early days, "their concerts wouldn't end until the cops came." The band released one album, '' Sarcelles - Lochères'', in 1970. The group broke up after they got arrested for possession of hash in the Netherlands. Given the revolutionary times, the band split rather appropriately into a

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and a

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section, the latter of which continued under the name Komintern. ''Sarcelles - Lochères'' was released on LP in 1970, and re-released on CD by Futura Records in 1996. In 1975, he composed some of the music for the film ''Hu-Man'' (starring

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and

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) by Jérôme Laperrousaz. In 1976, he recorded a solo album, '' Bruits et Temps Analogues'', on the Egg label, which was owned by

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and designed to present young and innovative musicians (it had

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and

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under contract). He is included (like Ame Son, Komintern and Red Noise) on the Nurse with Wound list. Since 1976, little has been heard of Vian, though he gave an interview to ''

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'' in 2011, in which he talked at length about his father and his childhood. He lives in

Apt, Vaucluse Apt (; Provençal Occitan: ''At / Ate'' in both classical and Mistralian norms) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It lies on the left bank of the Calavon, east of Avignon ...

. In 2013, he again appeared in public for the opening of '' L'Écume des jours'', the 2013 movie based on his father's novel of the same name.

References

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