François Bréant - Les Journaux Annoncent La Guerre-Générique / Vacances a Concarneau-Flash Back

The purpose for this video is for that of entertainment only.

The images used within this video are taken from photos of my original French vinyl LP jacket/cover, and labels - François Bréant "Sons Optiques" (1979) on the EGG record label 950.553.

François Bréantt is French musician/composer, with a past in bands like Cruciferus!, Kaypak, Ergo Sum and Nemo. He released 3 solo LPs; "Sons Optiques' (1979),and "Voyuer Extra-Lucide" (1980), and a third in 1988 titled "Saxo". Some of the top French musician at the time contributed their efforts on these releases; Didier Lockwood, Albert Marcouer, Pascal Arroyo, Klaus Blasquiz, Stella Vander, Guy Delacroix, Marc Perru, Emmanuel Lacordaire, to name a few. Later he was involved in world music genre (with Salif Keita & Enzo Enzo) and film music compositions.

The following François Bréan bio was written by Hugues Chantraine, contributor at "Progressive Rock Archives"...

François Bréant is one of those unavoidable characters around the French music industry having been around for soo long that many cannot imagine the scene without him. Indeed in the late 60's he was the keyboardist of CRUCIFERUS that recorded the legendary and dark A Nice Way Of Life (now one of the most sought-after French record) along with future Magma Bernard Paganotti. He was then found playing with the later days ERGO SUM (again with marc Perru) then with the jazz-rock NEMO group (not the modern neo band) in 73. He often played with many MAGMA members on different projects but never actually played with the group itself. During the second part of the 70's he became one of the main back up to French singer BERNARD LAVILLIERS whose poignant texts and lyrics as an ex-convict and true leftist rebel figure made him somewhat of a cult figure on the French scene, even when Lavilliers got interested in Brazilian music. In the late 70's, Bréant profited from a break in Lavilliers' career to record two solo albums filled to the brim with KBs and electronica and the unavoidable Zeuhl overtones , the first one (mainly through ALBET MARCOEUR's help) is often close to RIO, while the second is much more electronica-oriented.

Today, Bréant man still leads the band that backs Lavilliers with his friends of ever (Arroyo and Perru have been with Bréant since the Ergo Sum & Cruciferus days) and they certainly are accounting for a lot of the singer's continuing success. Bréant has also signed many music of films theatre plays and ballets and works as an arranger of many French and African stars, the best known being Salif Keita (Mali)

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[tubellarbells]

Merci !. sooner or later the good EGG records had to turn up on You Tube. Thanks for uploading. This is going straight to the Facebook group were myself & listeners of Futuro Fm 1989-1996 are rebuilding the future of good music, just as it used to spin in those years. Do come by and visit us at Facebook:

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@tubellarbells

Yes...I've been a big fan of the EGG label for years. Please see my other EGG uploads featuring artists such as Alain Markusfeld, OSE, and Patrick Vian.

Cheers from Canada!