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Artist
Christof Dejean
12+ albums
ambientjazzpianofrenchfrench electronic
about
Christof Déjean was a French composer, musician and sound engineer. Born July 9th, 1963 to a German mother - a top-level conference interpreter - and a French father whose vocation was in the dramatic and oratory arts. This atmosphere of clear-sighted open-mindedness would characterize the life and work of Christof Déjean. Inspired at his father's side by the emerging Magma and the extraordinary Christian Vander, he began playing drums, discovered John Coltrane and Miles Davis, and set up his own recording studio. Sound engineer, theatre-music composer, contributor to numerous music/technical magazines, he then formed the band Insight in 1998. The band's self-titled first album got four stars from the Jazzman magazine. Christof Déjean was a self-taught quiet man of genius. A cinephile, he quite naturally moved into composing library music. His committment and artistic integrity kept him rigourously clear of the "elevator music" so prevalent at the time and inevitably led to a firm collaboration with Frédéric Leibovitz and Françoise Marchesseau, like-minded music publishers. Christof Déjean, eclectic, sensitive, impassioned, was killed in a gliding accident on August 11th, 2006. He was 43 years old. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
