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Artist
Claude Samard
12+ albums
Soundtrack
about
M.A. in French litterature (Grenoble University, France) and Graduate from Berklee College of music (Boston USA). Languages French, English, Russian, Spanish Studio musician, (guitars of the world specialist), composer and producer with several gold and platinum credits to his name, including Midnight Oil (with Gaia), Patricia Kaas, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Supertramp Roger Hodgson, Rita Marley to name just a few. Now he shares his time between composing and producing. He also leaves some room to work as a musical director for major "live"projects (Gaia, Jean Michel Jarre) He released a solo album «Unplugged journey» (Koka) that features a lot of his acoustic world guitars. This Cd has been used extensively all around the world by musical illustrators (commercials, movies etc...) He has his own show (based on what he did on stage with Rogers for the opening of Jean Jacques Goldman 94/95 concerts) where he plays and demonstrates more than twelve «guitars of the world», including pedal steel, oud, banjo, dobro, guitars, bozuki... He still participates to guitar concerts ( sharing the bill with John Mc Laughlin, Jean Felix Lalanne, Birelli lagrene etc...) He enjoys mixing lo-tech and hi-tech recording approaches in his own Paris based studio : Studio 124, by the name of his own publishing/production company. He has composed and arranged several award-winning projects, including movies (« Bo Ba Bu », voted best music at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2001)
