Francis Rimbert

12+ albums

ambientelectronicfrenchinstrumentalsynthpop

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Francis has been playing music since he was 5 years old. He started in classical way learning to play the piano. At the conservatory, he studied harmony, counterpoint, the fugue and orchestral leading. He won first prize in piano and moved onto Paris where he become a salesman, working in a music strore which by chance imported synthetizers, at a time when nobody had sold such before. He become interested in those electronic instruments. In corporation with Korg, they created a new concept which had not existed ever before : Francis took the stage (Theatre des Champs Elysées – Paris) solo, surrounded by all his synthetizers (Bionic Orchestra, 1979). He will be the go-to man for both Roland and Ensoniq trades. A talented musician, Francis wasted little time getting to meet another master of the synthetizer : Jean Michel Jarre, through their mutual friend : Michel Geiss. Meeting in 1979 for the concert in Place de La Concorde - Paris, they began a long collaboration. Since 1986 (concert in Houston), Francis has been at Jarre’s side on grand stages. Aside from his work on various albums for Jarre, Francis has created several works of sonic illustration. Synthetizers are the prolongation of the fingers of a sensitive musician who who uses electronic instruments to articulate his melodic talent, a talent which helped him win first prize at the international festival of electronic music in Tokyo in 1988 (chaired by Isao Tomita). In 1994, Francis Rimbert created music for some vi