Marc Moulin
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Marc Moulin (born 1942 - September 26, 2008) was a Belgian musician and journalist (print, radio, TV). He was a member of the avant-garde rock band Aksak Maboul in 1977 and formed the pop group Telex in 1978. Next to that Moulin is one of the living Belgian jazz-legends, making jazz records for over 30 years.
Biography
Belgian keyboardist Marc Moulin has been a jazz craftsman for more than three decades. A leader in the field of acid jazz, he began his career by playing the piano in the '60s throughout Europe. During the following decade, he established a band known as Placebo. By 1974, he had made a trio of albums, influenced by such masters of jazz as Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. One of those early releases, Sam Suffy, has withstood the test of time and is still popular decades later with aficionados. Before the '70s had passed, Moulin switched gears; working with the band Telex, his style shifted to electro pop. With bandmates Michel Moers on vocals and Dan Lacksman on synthesizer, he put out five albums that spawned hit singles like "Rock Around the Clock," an electro pop version of the song originally made famous by Bill Haley & the Comets, and "Moscow Diskow," which won fans in discos as far away as Australia and Brazil. By 1992, Moulin again pulled a switch, this time turning to a sound that was more ambient with the release of Message. As the calendar flipped forward to a new millennium, Moulin flipped back in time to the place where he'd started: jazz. He signed with Blue Note, a label fond of pushing boundaries, which allowed him to freely combine his proclivity for the electronic sound with his jazz roots.
Marc Moulin is also a producer and composer. In particular, he worked with Lio ("Banana Split", "Mona Lisa" and "Les brunes ne comptent pas pour des prunes"), Jacques Duvall ("Comme la romaine", "Je déçois"), Alec Mansion, Anna Domino, Kid Montana, Viktor Lazlo and, more recently, Alain Chamfort.
Records
- Sam Suffy 1973 re-release 2005 - EMI Music Belgium
- Maessage 1992 - Team for action
- Placebo Years 1971-1974 1999 - EMI Music Belgium
- Top Secret 2001 - EMI Music Belgium
- Entertainment 2004 - EMI Music Belgium
- I am you 2007 - EMI Music Belgium
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