PATRICK JOUANNEAU
Drummer, singer, author and compose, Patrick Jouanneau discovers music when he was seven, while he was listening to a Beethoven's score. Later, the Who, the Beatles, and John Coltrane, will definitively kindle his passion.
He starts playing with blues bands and writes his first pieces of poetry. Being self taught, he studies sol-fa and enters the Guy Lognon's jazz masterclass in Marseille's conservatory.
His way of playing is much appreciated and gets to know a lot of people : WANKATAO, Christian BRAZIER, Bernard ABEILLE, Yves LAPLANE, Marco CAMPO, etc… He soon plays different music styles.
In 1985 he makes a record with the band FIZZ, where he plays the drums, sings and signs many titles. The music is in the funk-jazz area.
He starts studio sessions with COLORS, Gilles VALLI, Jean LOZZI, Nadia MECHBA, WALTON ORNATO, John SLADE, la ZONE ZEN, AZZO, and many others...
He decides to work on his own creations, arrangements, sound, mixing in his home-studio.
In 2003 he makes a duet with a very fine guitarist, Florent Maynard,
on the water theme. The record is called « Paysages d'eaux »
(water landscapes), under the band name of ATHEME. He is also working on his own songs.
He is the creator of a project that is very important to him, the BLUES PROJECT, a work on the blues' roots and slavery : combining conferences with musical performances. In the meantime, a record is being prepared with his friends, Christian LOUBÈS and Helmut NUNNING.
RICHARD F. TABBI was born in 1967 in the south of France, from a Sicilian father and a French mother.
After a master’s degree in medieval theology he dedicated himself to Francis from Assisi's sanctity he successively was a military man, a teacher, a documentalist, an editor, a journalist, a marketing professionnal, a bricklayer, a painter, a medical secretary...
At the age of thirty he decided to be a writer.
His first novel, ZOMBIE PLANETE was published in 2003, by Mango editions. The first part of a trilogy dedicated to insanity through the vision of an author who sinks into manic depression, ZOMBIE PLANETE is also a way to explore some of the post-war myths : the road, the pop-rock music, the drugs addictions... Richard F. Tabbi also took part in « Sexe More Sexe » with Eliette Abécassis, Frédéric Beigbeder and many others, and collaborate with the Bulletin des Amis de Michel Houellebecq and the Bordel review writing short stories and essays. He also wrote scenarii with the author-actor Ludovic Lavaissière in Le Havre, France.
As a French author, he was strangely influenced by the American litterature. In the beginning he discovered with passion Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Blaise Cendrars, and is still crazy about these two giants. But he found his vocation while crossing the Atlantic Ocean and meeting John Fante, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller and some others, thanks to Philippe Djian. Ever since this time he has been "reading American literature Exclusively, With The exception of Two great authors of French historical generation: Maurice G. Dantec and Michel Houellebecq of course. He now lives
In the South of France.
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