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ABOUT / ABOUT "... The harmonic harmony of our old sisters the stones opens up all possibilities because they are wiser than us. And by magicians like Fabrice Bony, they will end up contaminating men with an irrepressible need for harmony. .. " Anne Sibran (Writer / Novelist) - June 2017 "Fabrice Bony was born to always amaze us. Multi-instrumentalist, alchemist of sounds, he takes us today to the depths of a cyclical experience performed on a timeless instrument: the Lithophone." Christian Décamps (ANGE) - April 2016 Drummer by training, graduated from the Center Musical et Créatif de Nancy (CMCN) in 1991. Stage musician (ANGE, Nino Ferrer, Dorothée Daniel, Rictus…) and accomplished studio (Béatrice Thiriet, Renaud Barbier…), he records numerous records for various artists. Multi-instrumentalist, he composed 2 solo albums Between Day (2008) and Inner Lands (2013) in the lineage of Progressive Rock and Jazz Rock. One of his many sources of inspiration is also minimalist music (Steve Reich…) and the lithophone that he developed within the Spirales Ephémères project from 2011 to 2014. In 2015, he recorded the lithophone with the composer Renaud Barbier the band sound of ARTE's documentary When Homo Sapiens made his Cinema. Then composed the Lithophonic album (2016) entirely devoted to the lithophone. Performs in France, Iceland and regularly with the Japanese percussionist Tomoo Nagai in the French-Japanese improvised music collective LULI since 2013 in France and Japan in April 2015 and October 2016. ​ In 2016, he joined the Cie Les Journaliers (Théâtre Gestuel) for numerous performances with the Mud Beings and creations of Petites Fabulations sur la Mort (2019) & Petites Fabulations du Printemps (2020). Then recorded as a drummer with the composer Béatrice Thiriet for the soundtrack of the film Corniche Kennedy directed by Dominique Cabrera. In 2017, he recorded for the composer Renaud Barbier the soundtrack of documentary France 3 Comme des Sardines en Boite, then toured with Tomoo Nagai for shows on the texts of Pierre Loti. ​ Guest in Iceland at the international Fresh Winds artistic residency (Dec. 2017 - Jan. 2018). Then composes and signs the prologue to the title Nancy-Jupiter à la Nage of the new album of ANGE Happy released in March 2018. ​ Along with the Lithophonic solo concerts, collective performances (Cie Les Journaliers), he developed with trumpeter Marc Niess, the duo Fabrice Bony & Marc Niess , a project combining progressive mineral, improvised, minimalist and jazz music. Their Live Concert album was released in April 2019. ​ Release of his 4th album 7 + ∞ (June 2018) whose theme is Timeless Nomadism. ​ In August 2018, he was invited to an artistic residency in Omachi / Nagano (Japan) and participates in the Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival. He collaborates with the Swedish choreographer and dancer SU-EN during his performance Iki-Stone. 2019, a year rich in collaborations, recordings and tours with Cie Les Journaliers , Les Poissons-Pierres and Les Êtres DeBoue. Also, he joined the Cie Carré Blanc Sur Fond Bleu for the youth show In Search of Pablo with the actress Emmanuelle Marquis and director Frédéric Sarezza. ​ New concert tour in Japan with Tomoo Nagai and the Luli collective. (Feb-March 2019) He records lithophones & percussions with the composer Renaud Barbier for the soundtrack of the Arte Tv documentary series Les Nouveaux Mondes Sauvages . (Broadcast October 2019) ​ Invited to the 4th Organ Festival of La Réole for a meeting and a unique Lithophone and Church Organ concert with the Paleo-Musicologist Erik Gonthier and the improvising organist Uriel Valadeau. Creation of the musical reading Fragments de Vie with the actress Emmanuelle Marquis. ​ The year 2020 is on the same dynamic as 2019, the SU-EN Butoh Dance Company (Sweden) is commissioning him new lithophonic compositions for his show In the Flesh (Sweden tour in April 2020). He is invited for Les 50 ans de ANGE at the Trianon in Paris and on several other dates. The soundtrack Les Nouveaux Mondes Sauvages was released on the BOriginal label (January 2020) . Also Fabrice records the lithophones for the soundtrack of the film Petit Pays directed by Eric Barbier. Music composed by Renaud Barbier (Released in France on March 18, 2020). Will participate in the creation of the next Les Petites Fabulations du Printemps show by Cie Les Journaliers in May 2020. ​ Finally in August-September 2020, he was invited to an artistic residency in Japan for the Arts Island Tokyo Festival. ​

Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival 2018 - Japan Fabrice Bony's report on Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival 2018 Residence artist staying period: August 22nd, 2018 - September 4th, 2018 Location: Fresh Winds House I would like to thanks Mr Nobuyuki Sugihara (Project Director), Taeko Mori (Program Director) and Eri Hosoda (Coordinator) for inviting me as artist in residence for Shinano Primitive Sense Art Festival 2018. ​ This residence offered me the possibilities to present my work as musician and composer. I was also able to give workshops and have collaborations with other invited artists. ​ Music work Since 2012, I'm working on musical stones percussions “Lithophone” I created. As I arrived in Omachi City, my main idea was to find stones in the area for a new mineral music creation. I walked in the countryside of Omachi to look for these stones but I could not find some. So finally, I created new percussion from metallic tools that had very nice sounds. Afterwards japanese percussionist Tomoo Nagai I often collaborate with sent me some French stones we are using for concerts together. I mixed these stones with metallic tools for workshops and performances during the Art Festival. The mixing sounded very nice together, so it became my music installation for this Art Festival. Collaborations I played Taiko drum during at Ripple Drama & Primitive Stone Garden, Nishimaru Shinya Memorial Hall. I played Taiko drum at Kalin Diway. Iki - Stone collaboration with Swedish dancer SU-EN, I worked with lithophone, metallic instruments and computer sounds at Shinano Hall. Collaboration and concert with percussionist Tomoo Nagai with lithophone and rusted rebar at Shinano Hall. Collaboration for Song of Awa with Sakiko Ando (Singer), Nobuyuki Sugihara (Dance) & Tomoo Nagai (Lithophone) at Shinano Hall. I was also invited by Mr Sugihara to collaborate at for the 14th Matsushira Contemporary Art Festival - Spring Waterway at Teramachi Merchant House. Workshop I did a workshop with Lithophone and metallic rusted rebar installation at Futae Citizen Farm. ​ In France, I'm living nearby Atlantic Ocean in a very famous oyster area. Many years ago, oysters farmers used these stones for making oysters production. I discovered these stones have amazing sounds and resonance. I feel great inspiration with them. So during this workshop, I enjoyed to introduce those amazing sounds for local people and proposed them to play on them and they really enjoyed that. ​ As they also brought their own musical instruments, I suggested them the idea to create all together some trance grooves including the Konnokol rhythm singing from South East India. It was a real surprise for some local people to discover this way of learning how to sing rhythm easily. As percussionist it was a very nice time conducting this workshop During the Art Festival, I enjoyed to meet artists from Japan and other countries. I was impressed by the quality of organization and artworks. I hope my participation could bring inspiration for everybody. Actually SU-EN still uses Lithophonic pieces I recorded for some of her dance performances. ​ Arigato Gozaimasu. Fabrice Bony ​

LULI is a Franco-Japanese musical collective founded in 2013. Born from the meeting between the two drummer-percussionists Tomoo Nagai and Fabrice Bony, also composers, LULI develops original music, most often improvised where rhythms rub shoulders with multiple sound spaces. ​ The first meeting of Fabrice Bony and Tomoo Nagai was during the tribute paid to those who disappeared from the Fukushima disaster in March 2011 at the Menuiserie de Rodez. Since then, they have come together every year to give a concert in memory of this event. ​ Tomoo Nagai plays metallic idiophones (chimes, tubes, bells…) and in particular singing bowls (“ orin "). He is also the creator of original musical instruments, composed of wood, metal and other recycled materials, which allows him to explore and sculpt new sounds. Fabrice Bony works on sound spatialization and for this uses different instruments (percussions, guitars, psaltery, stones ...) ​ LULI likes to adapt to the acoustics of the place and sculpt the sound material from a " skeleton »On which the artists improvise electro-acoustic atmospheres. ​ Open to new encounters and creative exchanges, the collective has been enriched by collaborations with different artists : Yasuyo Iso (Voice), Samantha Zaccarie (photo, video), Akamatsu (electronic music), Miho Watarai (piano, melodica, percussions), Miyuki Kido (visual installations), Kae Touyama (dance), Korio Saito (cello, percussions ). ​ The concerts they give as a duo or in collaboration are an invitation to " Sound Dreams ". Improvisation - which essentially guides LULI's work - allows polyrhythmic and harmonic atmospheres to develop and develop. ​ During their tour in Japan in April 2015, they recorded and produced the CD In the Middle of No Way which was released in March 2016 produced by the label Fusion for Peace Productions. In 2016, LULI made two concert tours in France (March) and Japan (Sept-Oct).

Photo : Samantha Zaccarie Cv FABRICE BONY COMPOSITEUR, BATTEUR, GUITARISTE, LITHOPHONISTE, PRODUCTEUR, MUSICIEN INTERPRETE ​ 2021 Cie CARRE BLANC SUR FOND BLEU SACRES HÉROS (Lecture musicale) Compositeur / Interprète / Guitare / Ordinateur 2021 FABRICE BONY LA PIERRE TOURNE (B.O. / Cristal Publishing Release) Compositeur / Interprète / Lithophones / Tous les instruments 2021 Cie LES JOURNALIERS LES LARMES DU MONSTRE (Création) Compositeur / Interprète / Guitare / Ordinateur 2021 RENAUD BARBIER AUX TEMPS DES DINOSAURES (B.O. France TV / NHK) Lithophones / Interprète 2021 RENAUD BARBIER PAS SI BETES ! (B.O. ARTE) Lithophones / Percussions / Batteur / Interprète 2021 MIYUKI KIDO, SAMANTHA ZACCARIE & FABRICE BONY LOTI NEKO ECHO (B.O. Film) Compositeur 2021 Cie CARRE BLANC SUR FOND BLEU GRANDIR (B.O. Spectacle jeunesse) Compositeur 2020 MIRA CETII & FABRICE BONY NUIT NOIRE (Single / Vidéo) Compositeur / Piano / Lithophone / Percussions 2020 Cie LES JOURNALIERS, SAMANTHA ZACCARIE & FABRICE BONY LES MÉTAMORPHOSES (Spectacle performance danse & musique) 2020 Cie CARRE BLANC SUR FOND BLEU FRAGMENTS DE VIE (Lecture musicale) Compositeur / Interprète 2020 SAMANTHA ZACCARIE & FABRICE BONY MÉTAMORPHOSES (EP Studio) Compositeur / Guitare / Psaltérion / Percussions 2020 SAMANTHA ZACCARIE & FABRICE BONY CONFIT FUNKY (Single / Vidéo) Compositeur / Interprète / Tous les instruments 2020 RENAUD BARBIER PETIT PAYS (B.O. du film d'Eric Barbier) Lithophoniste / Interprète 2020 RENAUD BARBIER LES NOUVEAUX MONDES SAUVAGES (Sortie B.O.) Lithophones / Percussions / Interprète 2020 ANGE LES 50 ANS au Trianon, Paris. Batteur / Interprète 2020 SU-EN BUTOH DANCE COMPANY , Suède. IN THE FLESH Compositions / Lithophones / Interprète 2019 RENAUD BARBIER LES NOUVEAUX MONDES SAUVAGES (série documentaire ARTE TV) Lithophones / Percussions / Interprète 2019 Cie LES JOURNALIERS PETITES FABULATIONS SUR LA MORT (Théâtre Gestuel / Performance) Percussions / Psaltérion 2019 Cie CARRE BLANC SUR FOND BLEU A LA RECHERCHE DE PABLO (Spectacle Jeunesse) Composition / Lithophones / Percussions 2019 Tournée au Japon avec LULI Tokyo, Kobe, Hiroshima... 2019 FABRICE BONY & MARC NIESS LIVE CONCERT (Cd Digital) Producteur / Compositeur / Batterie / Lithophone / Psaltérion / Interprète 2018 SHINANO PRIMITIVE SENSE ART FESTIVAL, Japon. Résidence Artistique Internationale 2018 FABRICE BONY 7 + ∞ (Cd) 4ᵉ album Producteur / Compositeur / Interprète 2018 ANGE HEUREUX (Cd) Compositeur 2017 FRESH WINDS, Islande. Résidence Artistique Internationale 2017 RENAUD BARBIER COMME DES SARDINES EN BOITES (B.O. Documentaire France 3) 2016 BEATRICE THIRIET CORNICHE KENNEDY . (B.O. du film de Dominique Cabrera – Cristal Records) 2016 Tournée LULI en France Mars 2016 et au Japon en sept-oct. 2016 Depuis 2016 Cie LES JOURNALIERS LES ÊTRES DE BOUE (Théâtre Gestuel / Performance live) Composition / Lithophoniste / Percussionniste 2016 LULI IN THE MIDDLE OF NO WAY (Cd) Compositeur / Guitare / Percussions / Lithophone 2016 FABRICE BONY (Musique minérale) LITHOPHONIC (Cd) 3ᵉ album Producteur / Compositeur / Lithophoniste 2015 Tournée au Japon avec LULI (Musique éthérée, expérimentale) avril 2015 2015 RENAUD BARBIER (Musique minérale) QUAND HOMO SAPIENS FAISAIT SON CINEMA (Documentaire ARTE) Compositeur / Lithophoniste 2015 SPIRALES EPHEMERES (Musique expérimentale) 2015 (Cd démo) Producteur / Compositeur / Musicien interprète 2014 Tourne et développe son groupe SPIRALES EPHEMERES (Musique improvisée & expérimentale) 2013 FABRICE BONY (Rock Progressif) INNER LANDS (Cd) 2ᵉ album . Producteur / Compositeur / Musicien interprète 2013 Résidence artistique Internationale D’Art et d’ailleurs - PONT DE MONTVERT (France) 2012 RICTUS (Pop-Rock) CANDIDE 2013 (Cd) Batteur / Interprète 2012 Projet solo live SPIRALES EPHEMERES et 1ère utilisation du lithophone (Minimaliste / Expérimentale) Compositeur 2011 POLLY MAGGOO (Pop-Rock) LE GOÛT DE L’EAU (Cd) Compositeur / Batteur / Interprète 2011 FRESH WINDS, Islande Résidence artistique internationale 2010 SAMANTHA ZACCARIE & JEAN-MARC PLESSY ISLANDE, AUX RIVES DU REEL (Création B.O. Film) Compositeur 2008 FABRICE BONY (Rock Progressif) BETWEEN DAY (Cd) 1er album solo Producteur / Compositeur / Musicien interprète 2007 RENAUD BARBIER L’HÔPITAL (Série TV – Tf1) Batteur / Interprète 2007 DOROTHEE DANIEL (Chanson française) EN HAUT DES PEUPLIERS (Cd) Batteur / Interprète 2007 Tourne avec LENNY LAFARGUE (Blues) Batteur / Interprète 2006 ELODIE LEFEBVRE SANS RIVAGES (Vidéo / Art contemporain) Compositeur 2006 ANOUCK DURAND-GASSELIN LA MENACE (Bande sonore / Installation / Art contemporain) Compositeur 2005 - 2007 Tourne avec TIA AND THE PATIENT WOLVES (Blues) Batteur / Interprète 2005 DOROTHEE DANIEL (Chanson française) LA COMPAGNIE DES ANGES (Cd) Batteur / Interprète 2005 - 2008 Tourne avec DOROTHEE DANIEL (Chanson française) Batteur / Interprète 2005 RICTUS (Pop-Rock) ROL (Cd) Batteur / Interprète 2005 ROSEBUD BLUE SAUCE (Jump Blues) THE DIRTY DEAL (Cd) Batteur / Interprète 2003 ANGE (Rock progressif) Pêle-mêle (Cd) Batteur / Interprète 2003 ROSEBUD BLUE SAUCE (Jump Blues) YELLOW FEVER (Cd) Batteur / Interprète 2001 ROSEBUD BLUE SAUCE (Jump Blues) FIRST JUMP (Cd) Batteur / Interprète 2001 MARCEL (Pop-Rock) MARCEL (Cd) Batteur / Interprète 2001 - 2005 Tourne avec ROSEBUD BLUE SAUCE (Jump Blues ) Batteur / Interprète 1999 MR JO ET SES GURAS (Rock) VU A LA RADIO (Cd live) Batteur / Interprète 1998 Rencontre NINO FERRER et commence l’enregistrement d’un album qui ne verra jamais le jour suite à son décès. 1997 - 1999 Tourne avec JOËL SEGURA (Rock) Batteur / Interprète 1996 RICTUS (Rock) L’INSTANT PRESENT (Cd) Batteur / Interprète 1995 Tourne avec QUICKSILVER BLUES BAND (Blues) Batteur / Interprète 1994 OIL-LEN (Hard-Rock) SEAHORSE (Cd) Batteur / Interprète 1994 Tourne avec WARREN CEASAR (Zydeco), LEE BENOIT (Cajun) & TOM CAT BLAKE (Blues) Batteur / Interprète 1993 ANGE (Rock Progressif) Tournée LES LARMES DU DALAÏ LAMA dont un concert à l’Olympia Batteur / Interprète 1992 SHOT GUN BLUES : Voyage, concerts à San Francisco (Usa) et 1ère partie de JOHN LEE HOOKER. Batteur / Interprète 1992 SHOT GUN BLUES (Blues) FROM BEYOND THE BLUES (Cassette) Batteur / Interprète 1991 Tourne avec FLYWAY (Hard-Rock FM) Batteur / Interprète 1991 Tourne avec AGORA. (Jazz-fusion) Batteur / Interprète 1990 - 1991 Cursus professionnel du C.M.C.N. (Centre Musical et Créatif de Nancy). Obtention du diplôme en Fusion et World Music Mention spéciale à l’unanimité avec les félicitations du Jury. 1989 Tourne avec HEMERA (Rock progressif) Compositeur / Batteur / Guitariste 1984 - 1988 Cours de batterie avec Claude Bongarzone (Ecole Dante Agostini), Gray (70) 1977 - 1983 1ers cours de batterie avec Philippe Rigoulot (Ecole Tama-Paiste), Gray (70)

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Haut de page Interviews 2019 ​ May 2019 - Interview for BIG BANG magazine n ° 106 Progressive Music Magazine Interview conducted by Henri Vaugrand Version française Hello Fabrice ! We left you at the end of 2013 (Big Bang n ° 88) after the release of your second album, Inner Lands. Could you tell us what you did between then and the release of your new album, 7 + ∞ ? Hello, After the release of Inner Lands in 2013, I started to work in improvised and experimental music with the Japanese percussionist Tomoo Nagai and my partner Samantha Zaccarie on video projections and photographs. The Franco-Japanese collective Luli was born. Several tours have taken place in Japan, Iceland and France. In 2016, we recorded at the foot of Mt Fuji, the sacred mountain of Japan, the magnificent album In the Middle of No Way . During this same year, I also composed and recorded the Lithophonic album dedicated to lithophones. I will come back to this in the interview. Between 2015 and 2017, I worked on two soundtracks for documentaries Arte Tv Quand Homo Sapiens fait son Cinéma (2015) and France 3 Comme des Sardines en Boite (2017) with the composer Renaud Barbier . Then for the cinema with the soundtrack of the film Corniche Kennedy in 2017 with the composer Béatrice Thiriet. In 2018, I participated in the album of Happy Angel by composing the musical prologue of the title Nancy - Jupiter à la Nage and then the new album 7 + ∞ was released in June 2018. At the moment, I'm shooting with the Beings Deboue projects, the gestural theater company Les Journaliers , the youth show In Search of Pablo for the Compagnie Carré Blanc sur Fond Bleu and finally the atypical music duo Fabrice Bony and Marc Niess . Along with all these artistic activities, I teach drums and guitar in current music in several music schools including the Conservatory of Music and Dance in Rochefort . Your 2016 album, Lithophonic, is something special. Can you tell us a bit about lithophones and what they mean to you ? Lithophonic is a special album because it is devoted to lithophones, in other words the singing stones. The meeting took place in Iceland in 2011 during the Fresh Winds artistic residency with Páll Guðmundsson , a discreet multi-talented artist, sculptor, designer, painter, musician. Back in France and having just moved to Lozère, I went in search of singing stones knowing that I was at the crossroads of limestone, schist, sandstone and granite. What seemed interesting to me was to assemble the sounds, the resonances. It doesn't matter whether the notes are " fair ". I did not use classical tuning. In this album, I played improvised and composed music for lithophones. Another idea was to explore new sound textures by mixing them with current musical instruments and computer tools. The titles Afrolith and Psychedelith are perfect examples. There are also two original arrangements for lithophones of two minimalist pieces by American composer Steve Reich Clapping Music and Music For Pieces of Wood . I admit I was rather proud that he validated these two arrangements. Every time I play the lithophone, the audience and I are taken on a journey through time. We come from there and our DNA has not forgotten it. Very often the public is touched and the impression felt is far beyond words. At the time of the great technological whole, the human and especially the younger generations are in full transformation with the new telephones which are not any more because glued to see literally grafted to the hands. It is important that the younger generations can hear the mineral sounds of the origins again. At the moment, I am imagining an electro-mineral music ... I guess it was largely these scattered activities that delayed the release of this 7 + ∞ initially planned for 2015-2016. Are there any other reasons for this ? Yes, all of these exciting activities made this new album come to fruition in 2018. It doesn't matter, I'm my own producer. I don't have a dead line to respect, I take the time it takes and that's fine. And then comes the day, the night when I know inside that I have reached the end of the project. For 7 + ∞ , I wanted to take a new personal step by managing the mixing myself. It was a hell of a challenge ! I learned a lot in this area with the brilliant sound engineer Jean-Lou Girold, whom I thank. The result is rather convincing it seems to me. We remember having discovered you during the promotional tour of the Angel album, The Tears of the Dalai Lama. Then, the relations with the group of Christian Décamps were a little, let's say, weakened. How was your participation in the title “Nancy - Jupiter À La Nage (Odyssée 14'00)” on the last record of the Belfortains (Happy !, 2018, see Big Bang n ° 102) ? I saw the group on several occasions and in 2017 Christian and Tristan when they came to the Théâtre de la Coupe d'Or in Rochefort. We even played a version of Quasimodo on stage with the lithophones. It was a beautiful and astonishing moment of reunion. After that, Christian told me about Angel's next album. In 2016, I sent him the Lithophonic record, I had no idea that at that time, Christian was writing this magnificent text on the stones What the Stones are whispering . He told me about it. It was therefore naturally obvious that something was going to happen between Ange and my work on the lithophones. Still, one day in my home studio, I made a recording where I superimposed 7 rubbed stones of old types of slate oyster collectors. While mixing them, I started to hear voices coming from the stones. I immediately knew that these sounds would be destined for the next disc of Ange . I contacted Tristan and Christian who were thrilled. I had the joy of discovering that these sounds were used for the Nancy-Jupiter Swimming Prologue. So much for this happy angelic adventure ! We already knew your admiration for Magma and Christian Vander, but it really transpires in your new album, maybe even more than in Inner Lands. If the latter was very progressive with a touch of fusion and some references to this Gentle Giant that you appreciate so much, 7 + ∞ has passages much closer to the zeuhl. What do you think ? Yes Magma and Christian Vander , absolute fan at ∞! The 1st title of the album Tuatha De Danann (The Tribes of the Goddess Dana) evokes the Mythologies of the Far North. The music is influenced by Celtic music but also Magmaian rhythms, especially Rhodes and voices. It is especially in the 1st part of the piece that we can say that it is close to Zeulh music. For the second part of the piece, we are closer to minimalist, jazz, aerial and symphonic music. Toundra is a track in the vein of minimalist music. It is composed with a primitive elven psaltery that I made in Iceland. It produces hallucinating and random sounds. You never know what will come out of it, it allows me to be in the present moment and not in the repetition. Samantha Zaccarie added this shamanic instrument that is the Jew's harp and ethereal voices evoking the great outdoors and large migrating herds. Magic ! Caravan of Whales is an astonishing track of almost 8 minutes of crescendo which with its heavy trance-shaped rhythm evokes a caravan of whales crossing the deserts then covered by the ocean. Two drum parts overlap to evoke this haunting progression with this haunting cello rhythm. We can say that there is also a reference to Magma or rather Offering with Earth . Then the form is that of Coltranian jazz with this dialogue between the saxophone of Satoru Kita and the trumpet of Marc Niess . Ukiyo-e refers to the Japanese Floating World. My relationship with Japan is strong, so I wanted to compose a song in this honor. The title of more than 10 minutes is divided into 2 parts, the 1st being very aerial, focused on the work of the sensitive voices of Samantha Zaccarie and myself in lead vocal and rhodes. While the 2nd part revolves around different themes of piano and strings with dynamic and soaring rhythms at the same time. For this title, I was lucky to have the excellent Japanese saxophonist Satoru Kita . Celtia evokes the Celtic worlds with its harmonized themes of violins, flutes and guitars. The 12/8 ternary rhythm is typical of Celtic music. I love the energy of this music, I listen to it often. I am not far from Brittany. I love this land of raw energy ! I wanted to compose a song with this influence. I was lucky to have the Breton violinist Héléna Boistard and Damien Fadat on Irish flutes. The piece Silex is, as its name suggests, played with flint stones from the Ile d'Oléron, here we are in the most minimal form possible. And we navigate in the very high mineral frequencies. I was pleasantly surprised with the result. I didn't think I could get that kind of sound with stones. Nice discovery ! The title of the album corresponds to the number of titles, the last, as you explain on the booklet, this 8 lying down representing infinity. Can you tell us more specifically about this “Frequency Of Dreams” and these 46 guests who speak different languages? ? For the number 7, there is obviously a reference to the creation of the World in seven days, it is the very essence of this album to evoke the sacred and the spiritual. ∞ corresponds to the title Frequency of Dreams which closes the disc. I composed this track in Iceland during the Fresh Winds artistic residency. 46 international artists were invited, representing nearly 20 different nationalities. The theme of the residency was the Dream. In my mind has come the image of the human connected to the Frequency of Dreams, infinite. I asked everyone to express their feelings about the Dream in their own language. From all these recordings, I composed and edited this musical piece which when listening is like an infinite journey, a film evoking the billions of human beings in the process of dreaming. This title has a very strong emotional power. You had already taken special care in recording and mixing the drums, your major instrument, on Inner Lands. We feel the same concern on this new album. Am I wrong ? As I told you above, for this new album, I decided to manage the complete mixing but also all the sound recordings of all the instruments. Long and exciting process. The recording of the drums was carried out in different places. I do 3 takes per piece most of the time. I play by letting go and I refine as I go. Very little editing at the end of the day. Then I let time pass before listening to it again. It helps me not to lose the thread of creative energy. Likewise, from a compositional point of view, minimalism is still present with its subtle changes and repetitions. Does the lithophonist that you are now accentuate this influence ? Yes he is present throughout the album. I fully assume it. For me, minimalism and the progressive of the 70s are intimately linked. They are great sources of inspiration. These two movements, through their open-mindedness, are natural bridges that bring together and integrate all musical genres. Nowadays, Progressive Rock rhymes more often with Metal Prog than anything else. Personally, I am not hanging on. I prefer the sounds close to the origins. The " repetition " with its subtle changes represents the form of Trance. The music of this new album 7 + ∞ is spiritual. If I'm not mistaken, you moved from the Cévennes to settle on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, in the Charentes. What has this geographical change modified in the “tellurian” that you are and that we recognize in the title “Tundra” ? The main theme of this album 7 + ∞ is Timeless Nomadism. So I went from the Cévennes Lozérien mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and Charente Maritime. What change ! A real crush for this region was born. I love the horizon of the ocean and the sky. A real pleasure to walk on the wild coast and meet migratory birds in all seasons. And then the discovery of the marshes between Rochefort and Ile d'Oléron, what a marvel of biodiversity ! This environment is very inspiring for my music. Tundra evokes the great spaces linked to the migrations of large herds. My feelings between music and the encounter with Nature are more and more strong year after year. It translates into a creative energy that I feel is pure and natural. Of course, the great maritime expanses are present (“Caravan Of Whales”, “Lament For The Ocean”), even if the caravan could leave from Santana ... The two titles you are talking about highlight the environmental problems caused by humans. Caravan of Whales evokes the image of Whale Caravans quietly crossing the deserts covered by the ocean. The image is captivating but it is also a way of telling people that the ocean could again cover these deserts in the near future with the rising waters due to global warming, the melting of glaciers, air pollution due to human activities. The younger generations seem to be waking up to these problems, so much the better ! Lament for the Ocean is a strong title in the sense that I wanted to evoke ocean pollution by plastic, nuclear power and human economic overactivity. When I see that oyster farmers still use plastic to produce oysters, it really saddens me. And these days, I learn that a ship has just run aground near the Charente coast with a great risk of pollution. In these two cases, humans show their irresponsibility. The ocean, let us remember that whether it is Atlantic, Pacific or Indian is in fact only one and only Ocean. We knew you were an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, but you also turned out to be an excellent vocalist. The voices are also more present than on Inner Lands, as on the very beautiful “Ukiyo-e”, a kind of hybrid cross between Steve Hillage and Ryūichi Sakamoto. A commentary on this voice work ? In this new album 7 + ∞ , I wanted to balance the music and the vocals. Ukiyo-e turned out to be a perfect example. The idea was to start from a simple form, voice and rhodes. I like to sing more and more. In my image of singing, there are no texts but rather sounds and textures. The melodies came quite quickly then with Samantha Zaccarie , we worked together on harmonizations and counterpoints. Again, it took time and maturation. Ukiyo-e is also inspired by the floating worlds and Japanese prints by artist Hokusai, whose remarkable retrospective I saw in Tokyo. As much the 1st part is centered on the voices, the 2nd is centered on the piano, the strings and the rhythms. You're right, I winked at Ryuichi Sakamoto whom I really like. Ukiyo-e is also for all Japanese friends after all. Ah what an amazing country that Japan, I adore ! You have a few guests, in particular Satoru Kita (saxophones, cello) and Marc Niess (trumpet) with whom you also collaborate. Could you tell us a few words about these guests ? In this new album 7 + ∞ , several guests have been invited. First of all, my partner Samantha Zaccarie who played the harp, sung on 5 of the 8 tracks on the album. With her feelings and her particular listening to music, she helped me a lot during the mixing. Samantha largely designed the digifile cover with this gorgeous photo from her Infinite Trace series. She considers herself an artist of Life. Also his photographic work is to be discovered. I was lucky to have the excellent Montpellier flutist Damien Fadat for the titles Tuatha De Danann and Celtia . I had seen him in concert, I had loved his playing and his energy. Satoru Kita has played saxophones and cello on 2 tracks Caravan of Whales and Ukiyo-e . Japanese musician, he lives in Paris. Go listen to him, he is an exceptional musician with an innate sense of graphic design in musical composition. Amazing ! Héléna Boistard came to the Cévennes with her electric violin to record the song Celtia. I have known her for a long time. She is an excellent violinist with great energy. Finally I end with Marc Niess who came in last reinforcement created a part of trumpet and surprising sound textures on Caravan of Whales . The artistic understanding between us is moreover natural so that we formed the duo Fabrice Bony & Marc Niess which starts touring since 2018. I really like this project which mixes genres. It's like a musical synthesis of my entire artistic journey. The Live Concert album is online at the moment. We'll be releasing a studio-recorded mini Ep by May or June. Ladies and gentlemen programmers, this is a project that deserves to be turned. Do not hesitate to contact us. Can we expect to hear 7 + ∞ in concert ? With the duo Fabrice Bony & Marc Niess , we resume Caravan of Whales in concert. But it will be the only title played live. Frequency of Dreams was performed in Iceland. Play 7 + ∞ in concert would require to form a group of 6 musicians at least. This is not planned at the moment. Rather, it will be necessary to listen and see this album as completed paintings. A last word for our readers ? Readers, I greet you. We look forward to seeing you on the road. Continue to support independent artists ! Thank you for this interview and good luck to Big Bang magazine. ​ Hello Fabrice! We left you at the end of 2013 (Big Bang # 88) after the release of your second album, Inner Lands. Could you tell us what you did between that moment and the release of your new album, 7 + ∞? Hello, After the release of Inner Lands in 2013, I started working in improvised and experimental music with Japanese percussionist Tomoo Nagai and my partner Samantha Zaccarie on video and photography projections. The Franco-Japanese collective Luli was born. Several tours have taken place in Japan, Iceland and France. In 2016, we recorded at the foot of Mt. Fuji, the sacred mountain of Japan, the magnificent album In the Middle of No Way . During that same year, I also composed and recorded the album Lithophonic devoted to lithophones. I will come back to it in the interview. Between 2015 and 2017, I worked on two BO for documentaries Arte Tv Quand Homo Sapiens fait son Cinéma (2015) and France 3 Comme des Sardines en Boites (2017) with the composer Renaud Barbier . Then for the cinema with the BB film Corniche Kennedy in 2017 with the composer Béatrice Thiriet . In 2018, I participated in the last Ange CD Happy by composing the musical prologue of the title Nancy - Jupiter at La Nage and then the new album 7 + ∞ was released in June 2018. At the moment, I'm working with the projects of Êtres Deboue, gestural theater company Les Journaliers , the youth show A la Recherche de Pablo for the Compagnie Carré Blanc sur Fond Bleu and finally the atypical music duo Fabrice Bony and Marc Niess . Parallel to all these artistic activities, I teach drums and guitar in current music in several schools of music including the Conservatory of Music and Dance of Rochefort. Your 2016 album, Lithophonic, is something special. Can you tell us a little about the lithophones and what they represent for you? Lithophonic is a special album because it is dedicated to lithophones, in other words singing stones. The meeting took place in Iceland in 2011 during the artistic residency Fresh Winds with Páll Guðmundsson , discreet artist with many talents, sculptor, draftsman, painter, musician. Back in France and just moved to Lozere, I went in search of singing stones knowing that I was at the crossroads of limestone, shale, sandstone and granite. What seemed interesting to me was to assemble the sounds, the resonances. It does not matter if the notes are "right". I did not use classical tuning. In this album, I played improvised and composed music for lithophones. Another idea was to explore new sound textures by mixing them with current musical instruments and tools. The titles Afrolith and Psychedelith are perfect examples. There are also two original minimalist two-piece lithophone arrangements by American composer Steve Reich Clapping Music and Music For Pieces of Wood . I was pretty proud to say that he validates these two arrangements. Whenever I play lithophone, the audience and I are invited to a trip back in time. We come from there and our DNA has not forgotten it. Often the audience is touched and the impression is far beyond words. At the time of the great technological everything, the human and especially the younger generations are changing with the new phones that are no longer glued because see literally grafted hands. It is important that younger generations can hear the original mineral sounds again. At the moment, I'm trying to imagine an electro-mineral music ... ​ I suppose it was largely these sparse activities that delayed the release of this 7 + ∞ originally planned for 2015-2016. Are there other reasons for this? Yes, all these exciting activities have made this new album a success in 2018. It does not matter, I'm my own producer. I have no dead line to respect, I take the time it takes and that's fine. And then comes the day, the night I know internally that I came to the end of the project. For 7 + ∞ , I wanted to take a new personal step by myself managing the mix. It was a big challenge! I learned a lot in this field with the great sound engineer Jean-Lou Girold whom I thank. The result is rather convincing, it seems to me. We remember to have discovered during the promotional tour of the album of Ange, The Tears of the Dalai Lama. Then, the relations with the group of Christian Décamps had a little, say, distended. How was your participation in the title "Nancy - Jupiter À la Nage (Odyssey 14'00)" on the last record of Belfortains (Happy, 2018, see Big Bang No. 102)? I saw on several occasions the group and in 2017 Christian and Tristan during their visit to the Theâtre de la Coupe d'Or in Rochefort. We even played on stage a version of Quasimodo with the lithophones. It was a beautiful and amazing moment of reunion. Following this, Christian had told me about the next album of Ange . In 2016, I sent him the Lithophonic record, I did not suspect that at that time, Christian was writing this beautiful text on the stones Ce Que Murmure les Pierres . He told me that. It was, of course, obvious that something was going to happen between Ange and my work on lithophones. Still, one day in my home studio, I made a recording where I superimposed 7 rubbed stones of old types oyster slate collectors. By mixing them, I started hearing voices coming from the stones. I immediately knew that these sounds would be for the next Ange's CD. I contacted Tristan and Christian who were excited. I had the joy of discovering that these sounds were used for the Nancy-Jupiter Prologue à La Nage . So much for this happy angelic adventure! We already knew your admiration for Magma and Christian Vander, but it really transpires in your new album, maybe even more than in Inner Lands. If the latter was very progressive with a bit of fusion and some references to the Gentle Giant that you like so much, 7 + ∞ has passages much closer to zeuhl. What do you think? Yes Magma and Christian Vander , absolute fan at ∞! The 1st title of the album Tuatha De Danann (The Tribes of the Goddess Dana) evokes the Mythologies of the Great North. The music is influenced by Celtic music as well as by rhythmic Magma , including Rhodes and voices. It is especially in the first part of the piece that we can say that it is close to Zeulh music . For the 2nd part of the piece, we are closer to minimalist, jazz, aerial and symphonic music. Toundra is a title in the vein of minimalist music. It is composed with a primitive Elvish psaltery that I made in Iceland. It produces hallucinating and random sounds. You never know what will come out, it allows me to be in the moment and not in the repetition. Samantha Zaccarie added this shamanic instrument that is the jew's harp and ethereal voices evoking the large spaces and large herds in migration. Magical! Caravan of Whales is an amazing 8-minute crescendo song that with its heavy trance-like rhythm evokes a caravan of whales crossing the deserts then covered by the ocean. Two drum parts are superimposed to evoke this throbbing progression with this obsessive cello rhythm. We can say that there is also reference to Magma or Offering with Earth . Then the form is that of the Coltranian jazz with this dialogue between the saxophone of Satoru Kita and the trumpet of Marc Niess . Ukiyo-e refers to the Japanese floating world. My relationship with Japan is strong, so I wanted to compose a title in this honor. The title of more than 10 minutes is divided into two parts, the first part is very aerial, focused on the work of the sensitive voices of Samantha Zaccarie and myself in vocal lead and rhodes. While the 2nd part revolves around different themes of piano and strings with rhythmic dynamic and planing at the same time. For this title, I was lucky to have the excellent Japanese saxophonist Satoru Kita. Celtia evokes the Celtic worlds with its harmonized themes violins, flutes and guitars. The ternary rhythm in 12/8 is typical of Celtic music. I like the energy of this music, I listen to it often. I'm not far from Brittany. I love this earth with raw energy! I wanted to compose a piece with this influence. I was lucky to have the Breton violinist Héléna Boistard and Damien Fadat at the Irish flutes. The piece Silex is as its name suggests played with flint stones from the Ile d'Oleron, there we are in the most minimal form. And we are sailing in the very high mineral frequencies. I was pleasantly surprised by the result. I did not think I could get this type of sound with stones. Beautiful discovery! The title of the album corresponds to the number of titles, the last, as you explain on the booklet, this 8 lying representing infinity. Can you tell us more specifically about this "Frequency Of Dreams" and these 46 guests who speak different languages? For the number 7, there is obviously reference to the creation of the World in seven days, it is the essence of this album to evoke the sacred and the spiritual. ∞ is the title of Frequency of Dreams that closes the disc. I composed this title in Iceland during the artistic residency Fresh Winds . 46 international artists were invited, almost 20 different nationalities. The theme of the residence was the Dream. In my mind came the image of the human connected to the Frequency of Dreams, infinite. I asked everyone to express their feelings about the Dream in their own language. From all these recordings, I composed and edited this musical piece that is listening as an infinite journey, a film evoking the billions of human beings dreaming. This title has a very strong emotional power. You had already taken a particular care in the recording and the mixing of the drums, your major instrument, on Inner Lands. We feel the same concern on this new album. Am I wrong? As I told you earlier, for this new album, I decided to manage the complete mix but also all sounds taken from all instruments. Long and exciting process. The recording of the drums has been done in different places. I do 3 shots per piece most often. I play letting go and I improve as and when. Very little editing in the end. Then I let some time before listening again. It helps me not to lose the creative energy thread. Similarly, from the point of view of composition, minimalism is still present with its subtle changes and repetitions. Is the lithophonist that you are now accentuating this influence? Yes it is present throughout the album. I take it fully. For me, the Minimalism and the Progressive of the 70s are intimately linked. They are great sources of inspiration. These two movements by their openings of spirit are natural bridges allowing to unite and integrate all the musical genres. Nowadays, Progressive Rock rhymes more often with Metal Prog than anything else. Personally, I don't like that. I prefer sounds close to origins. The "repetition" with its subtle changes represents the form of the Trance. The music of this new album 7 + ∞ is spiritual. If I'm not mistaken, Cevennes you moved to settle on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean in the Charentes. What did this geographical change change in the "tellurian" that you are and which one recognizes well in the title "Tundra"? The great theme of this album 7 + ∞ is Timeless Nomadism . Also I went from the Cevennes Lozère mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and the Charente Maritime. What change! A real crush for this region is born. I like the horizon of the ocean and the sky. A real pleasure to walk on the wild coast and meet migratory birds in any season. And then the discovery of marshes between Rochefort and Ile d'Oleron, what a marvel of biodiversity! This environment is very inspiring for my music. Tundra evokes the great spaces linked to the migrations of large herds. My feelings between music and the encounter with Nature are getting stronger year after year. This translates into a creative energy that I feel pure and natural. Of course, the large maritime expanses are present ("Caravan Of Whales", "Lament For The Ocean"), even if the caravan could leave Santana ... The two titles you mention here highlight the environmental issues caused by humans. Caravan of Whales evokes the image of Whale Caravans quietly crossing the deserts covered by the ocean. The image is captivating but it is also a way of telling people that the ocean could once again cover these deserts in the near future with the rising waters due to global warming, the melting of glaciers, the air pollution caused by human activities. The younger generations seem to be awakening to these problems, so much the better! Lament for the Ocean is a strong title in the sense that I wanted to evoke the oceanic pollution by the plastic, the nuclear and the human economic overactivities. When I see that the oyster farmers are still using plastic to produce oysters, that really annoys me. And these days, I learn that a ship has just failed near the coast of Charente with a high risk of pollution. In both cases, the human shows his irresponsibility. The ocean, remember, whether Atlantic, Pacific or Indian is in fact only one Ocean. We knew you were an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, but you are also an excellent vocalist. The voices are more present than on Inner Lands, as on the beautiful "Ukiyo-e", a sort of hybrid cross between Steve Hillage and Ryuichi Sakamoto. How do we do this work of the voices? In this new album 7 + ∞ , I wanted to balance the music and the voices. Ukiyo-e proved a perfect example. The idea was to start from a simple form, voice and rhodes. I like to sing more and more. In my image of singing, there are no texts but rather sounds and textures. The melodies came quite fast then with Samantha Zaccarie , we worked together on harmonizations and counterpoints. Again, it took time and ripening. Ukiyo-e is also inspired by floating worlds and Japanese prints by artist Hokusai , whose remarkable retrospective I saw in Tokyo. As much the 1st part is centered on the voices, the 2nd is centered on the piano, the strings and the rhythmics. You're right, I winked at Ryuichi Sakamoto that I really like. Ukiyo-e is also aimed at all Japanese friends (at the end of the day). Oh what an amazing country that Japan, I love! You have some guests, especially Satoru Kita (saxophones, cello) and Marc Niess (trumpet) with whom you collaborate elsewhere. Can you tell us a few words about these guests? In this new album 7 + ∞ , several guests have been invited. First, my partner Samantha Zaccarie who played the jew's harp, sung on 5 of the 8 tracks of the album. With her feelings and her particular listening of the music, she helped me a lot during the mixing. Samantha designed a large part of the digifile sleeve with this beautiful photo from her Infinite Trace series. She considers herself an artist of life. Also his photographic work is to discover. I was lucky to have the excellent flutist from Montpellier Damien Fadat for the titles Tuatha De Danann and Celtia . I had seen him in concert, I loved his game and his energy. Satoru Kita played saxophones and cello on 2 tracks Caravan of Whales and Ukiyo-e . Japanese musician, he lives in Paris. Go listen to him, he is an exceptional musician with an innate sense of graphic design in musical composition. Amazing! Héléna Boistard came to the Cévennes with her electric violin to record the track Celtia . I have known her for a long time. She is an excellent violinist with a good energy. Finally I finish with Marc Niess who came last reinforcement created a trumpet part and amazing sound textures on Caravan of Whales . The artistic agreement between us is so natural that we have formed the duo Fabrice Bony & Marc Niess , which has been shooting since 2018. I love this project that mixes genres. It's like a musical synthesis of all my artistic career. A live album Live Concert is online at the moment. We will release a mini EP recorded in studio by May or June. Ladies and Gentlemen programmers, this is a project that deserves to turn. Do not hesitate to contact us. Can we expect to hear 7 + ∞ in concert? With the duo Fabrice Bony & Marc Niess , we play Caravan of Whales in concert. But this will be the only title played live. Frequency of Dreams was played in Iceland. To play 7 + ∞ in concert would require to constitute a group of 6 musicians at least. This is not planned for now. It will rather listen and see this album as successful paintings. A last word for our readers? Readers, I salute you. Looking forward to seeing you on the road. Continue to support independent artists! Thank you for this interview and good luck to Big Bang magazine. ​ 2017 ​ 01/20/2017 Interview Fabrice Bony in the program SCENE OUVERTE . HELENE FM radio. 2016 ​ 11/18/2016 Interview Fabrice Bony at FRANCE 3 Poitou-Charentes. 20/10/2016 Interview Fabrice Bony at Demoiselles FM. 2013 ​ November 2013 Interview for BIG BANG magazine n ° 88 by Olivier Pelletant. 1) Most prog fans who know you discovered you in 1993, when you joined Ange for the promotional tour of the album "Les Larmes Du Dalaï-Lama". Is this experience still a good memory today? Overall this experience with Ange remains very positive in my mind. She taught me so much, both professionally and emotionally. At the age of 22, it was great to experience that. I didn't ask for so much and at the same time, I had worked like a madman so that this possible could present itself and exist. It took place. The Olympia and many other concerts were magical ! I will of course never forget this whole adventure. And I can't thank Daniel Haas enough for coming up with the idea of giving me the audition. Subsequently in 1995, it was decided without even telling me and notifying me while I was the drummer of Ange to do a Farewell tour with the original group. I found this decision and the process heartbreaking and disappointing, especially since the 1995 Jelsch that I saw at that time. on some concerts of the tour, was no longer as efficient as that of the 70s. It was hard to take the hit of the disposable drummer… who saved the 1993 tour as they say. But hey, I recovered well. In 2002, Christian Décamps called me back to offer me the place of drummer. At first I was enthusiastic about this idea but after the interview, I decided to refuse because on the one hand the music had changed and I could not find the magic of 1993. Today, I still have one eye and one ear attentive to what is happening on the Angel's side. I enjoyed their last album. I went to see them in concert sometimes. We had some discussions with Christian and the other musicians. Besides, Christian has just reviewed the album in the fan club magazine. I thank him warmly. Here is the page Angel as a musician is beautiful and well turned. Direction the present! 2) To be honest, you have somewhat disappeared from progressive radars since that time, but I know that you have nevertheless remained very active in the musical world. Can you tell us in a few words what you have done during these 20 long years ... Yes indeed the progressive radars have not had to flash me over the past 20 years because when I was not in the studio serving artists of any musical genre whether for records or for television, I was on the roads of Blues, Rock, Jazz-Rock, French song without forgetting of course the disturbing experience of 6 months of work with Nino Ferrer on an album which will not see the light of day following his suicide at a week of leaving for the Studio du Manoir to make these months of work a reality… Since 2008, I have slowed down the concerts to devote myself fully to composition and teaching. More recently, I created this minimalist music live solo project called " Ephemeral Spirals ". For the details of my journey, I invite the curious to visit my site. You will know everything, I promise ! 3) This new album is the second of your solo career, and initially appears much more progressive than its predecessor. Did you have the will to create more ambitious music for Inner Lands, or was it the paths of inspiration that led you "in spite of yourself" on this path? The paths of inspiration resonate with what we experience in relation to our inner world which is itself influenced and in interaction with the outer world. I felt a strong inner fire within me, a lot of energy, something new was happening. It was clear that my master instrument namely the drums would have a very important role to play in this album. I had the feeling of letting go of the horses for any instrument and it was a very natural feeling to express it that way. So from the angle of view, the point of view of Inner Lands is that it is an ambitious album. 4) Inner Lands is doubly progressive. Not only because it demonstrates the most advanced formal sophistication, but also because it is not satisfied to decline a predefined music throughout its speech. If the atmospheric and cinematic dimension of your music is beyond doubt, we feel very regularly a flowering of more ambitious elements (fusion, I would be tempted to say). A bit like Pat Metheny sometimes did. Do you agree with this description? Yes I totally agree. The reference to Pat Metheny does not speak to me too much but I prefer to refer to a group like Gentle Giant which I adore. They are exceptional musicians with impressive musical daring. Most of the musicians in this group are multi-instrumentalists which we have in common, so many colors can be created. In general, and we can hear it in many groups and artists of the genre, expressing themselves in the field of progressive and even in minimalism lead to infinite dimensions and musical experiments. 5) What is wonderful in your music is its rhythmic base which allows it all the harmonic daring. Are you aware that your talents as a drummer are one of the main causes of the success of this album? I quickly knew that my master instrument, namely the drums, would have a very important role, even essential to this album. As I said above, a powerful inner energy was asking me to express this : the Battery is the energy of the Earth. And to achieve this, I wanted to be able to have time to polish all the drums parts, so I decided not to go to the studio but to invest in good microphones and a good sound card and then take the sound recordings. the House. Then I went to mix it all with a real sound magician I named Jean-Lou Girold from the ATL-REC studio located in the Vosges. The combination of home studio and mix with a real pro in a pro studio worked perfectly. It was a risk-taking but I had confidence. 6) I mentioned Pat Métheny above, but your music also evokes other artists like Jean-Luc Ponty, Magma (especially on "Weird"), Neal Schon, Bill Bruford, Pink Floyd, Eloy, and others Allan Holdsworth . However, Mike Oldfield (the one from the 70s of course) seems to me to be the artist with whom you have the most 'theoretical' connections. Not so much in the style practiced as in the desire to make coherent elements which are a priori dissimilar. Is it founded or am I completely missing the point? It is clear that many influences are found in this album and this is what makes its rhythmic, harmonic and cosmic richness ... All the artists you mention speak to me more or less so I reassure you, you are not next to the plate but well above… ah ah. 7) Logic now prompts me to ask you what are your most intimate musical tastes ... Ah My musical tastes .... There are many !!! Magma, of course ! How lucky are we in France to have such a group and Christian Vander is simply amazing. Total respect ! After of course the English prog of the seventies like Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull still touches me enormously. Swedish prog is also very interesting with groups like Anekdoten, Paatos. American prog affects me less, Kansas yes. On the other hand, the advent of Metal Prog at the Dream Theater & Co, leaves me unmoved, I find it cold. The sound is generally too compressed, too clean, too bright, the worst is the drum sounds so compressed that they look like drum machines… Of course the technique is monstrous to see superhuman but if the music is just a extremely complex contest… no thanks. Besides, while promoting the album, I realized that a lot of journalists and columnists take all these Metal Prog groups as references to determine what progressive music is. I think they are wrong. Also, a few years ago I discovered minimalist music through Steve Reich, John Adams, Philip Glass and Terry Riley. It's a great movement that I highly recommend listening to. There it is about subtle rhythmic variations of harmonic movements often quite simple which seem repetitive but which are not it, we are close to the trance. Exciting for the rhythm player that I am. 8) Apart from a few vocalizations (or Indian songs on "Native Land"), Inner Lands is totally instrumental. Does this mean that your music (deep and intense, which leaves the listener's imagination wandering) cannot support a song, therefore necessarily more direct and expressive lyrics? Initially, the album was to have no vocals. They came pretty close to the end of the creative process. I thought that the vocal element could be interesting to exploit on certain passages ; It is certain that it is by dint of listening to Magma that I wanted to try. It was interesting and I think in the future the voice will be even more present. So in my idea, the voice would be used more as an instrument rather than in terms of texts. I find that it takes you as far as the beautiful texts. I will rather go in the sense of voice-instrument. The 1st album " Between day Did not include a voice. I remind you that this album is about my Near Death Experience (NDE) experienced a few years ago. It was a personal event and at the same time universal because it was experienced by many other people. It was an experience beyond words, which I translated into music, the voice had no place there. 9) Your acknowledgments contained in the booklet are quite surprising, because not only intended for people. It appears that "Nature" is a central element in your life as a man and as an artist. To what extent are animals and the plant world sources of inspiration for you? Many changes in my life have taken place in recent years, I feel like I have gone through the particle accelerator of Consciousness. These thanks are special because living in a most natural environment in the middle of the Cévennes National Park which is a land of resistance, relatively preserved from human heresy which consists in destroying everything for pure financial or speculative interest. It is this Nature so beautiful that I observe every day that gives me all this energy, this desire to move forward. I am fortunate enough to be able to observe this Nature that gives us so much. If you take the time to observe cows, sheep, goats, chickens, cats, bees, earthworms, you will be touched by their beings. If your heart is open and available, you will understand. Of course for city dwellers, it is more complicated but humans must reconnect to Earth otherwise they will perish. The title " Isle of Shadows Was composed just after Fukushima. It is a tribute to the Japanese people who are going through something terrible. The problem is also that on the other side of the planet, we think that all this is far away ... terrible mistake to think so because we will suffer the same consequences in the medium term. Nature gives us warning signals, she is generous. But humans are unable to see them, they are otherwise unable to regulate themselves or even reduce their energy consumption. The piano plays a slightly dissonant note reflecting the fact that this world is wobbly and is probably going to its destruction. The radioactive cries at the end express that anger that so many people are starting to feel as many realize that this can't go on. I will end with an optimistic note. My last thanks are for the divine curves. Ah Men that we are… what would we be without the feminine element, Women. It is high time that they regain control ... 10) I also saw that you were sometimes part of "artistic residencies". Can you tell us more about this kind of activity that I know very little about, I must admit ... In 2010 I was invited to an artist residency in Iceland to share my musician medium with musicians, sculptors, painters, photographers, videographers, writers, dancers, for 2 months. It was fantastic. The principle is to create works on site during the event. For example, I discovered a brilliant instrument called Lithophone, (stone vibraphone.) Since then I have experimented and developed it with local stones. This instrument will probably be part of the next album. This residency allowed me to create a psaltery-type instrument with a primitive character which will also be on the next album ... More recently in our beautiful region of Lozère, another residency took place and it was other occasional meetings and collaborations with Japanese musicians. In October 2014, I will also be in residence in Japan. 11) Your projects ? I plan to start again quietly on the conception of a new album. I already know that it will be placed under the sign of travel, that will be the main theme. Maybe for 2014 or 2015, we'll see… There will still be a lot of energy. And then the Franco-Japanese collective Luli that we have set up will develop from time to time. I do not also forget my live project " Ephemeral Spirals »With which I wish to imagine collaborations in duo or trio. No time to be bored as who would say. There you go, thank you and good luck to the magazine. 2008 ​ October 2008 Interview for CULTCRUSHER, Counterculture ezine . Fabrice Bony, the music removed. by johnellman, Thursday October 9th, 2008 at 08:48 PM | ITW MUSIC | # 180 | rss A little calm in this world, that's what I would like to say when I listen to the music of Fabrice Bony. Rather, film music. No, not a poem. I found ... it is a love story that he reveals to us, a love story with music. He is I think a kind of John Barry who would have stopped for a drink at the Pink Floyd ... A great professional in any case that the record market does not frighten. Can you introduce yourself and how was your music born? Fabrice Bony 37 years old, professional drummer, I have been living in Paris for a year. My music was born 5 years ago. I decided to sit down and take a step back from what I had composed years before. I already had the idea for the concept album. But what a story to tell ? Finally the answer was obvious, indeed there had happened to me a strange experience where I had passed from life to death to Life. I wanted to put this story to music but without words because this experience was without words, I just wanted to translate my states, my emotions. Telling this experience meant telling a journey, inside but also outside. So I started from my birth (01 - Birth) my thread of life (02 - Thread of Life) with all its ardor and carelessness until this rupture (03 - Trauma and Coma), an experience that I recount as and as the album progressed ... I could only relate this experience alone, which is why I decided to do everything myself in my home studio except for the recording of the drums which were made at the Fallone studio (Dijon) with Arnaud Morize on sound. Mixing and mastering was also done there. There I did not have the skills required for that. (Laughs) How do you proceed when composing songs ? Each song has its own creative process, I don't have a recipe, I'm not just a drummer, I also play guitar and modestly piano so sometimes it comes from the drums, with a groove, a particular rhythm, other times it comes from the guitar, for others it is the piano. Or it can come from a particular sound which will have a harmonic resonance such that I will hear inside a rhythm, a melody, a series of chords. But I must confess that I have a soft spot for the Mellotron. This instrument fascinates and inspires me a lot. If you had to choose one of your tracks as being the most representative, which one would you choose and why? Without hesitation 'Fours birds as witnesses', I like its progression, its contrasts, the amplitude that it takes the more you advance in it and then I like this poetic title. These 4 witness birds who observe this man (who I remind him is in a coma in full introspection) will light his way before the great departure ..... I like this idea that Nature observes Man and that she illuminates it according to its behavior (global warming for example). If Man does not take this into account, Nature risks sending him to be seen elsewhere. What does your journey look like? I started playing drums at the age of 6. In 1990, I followed the professional course of the 'Center Musical et Créatif de Nancy' (CMCN) and obtained my diploma with 'Special mention unanimously with the congratulations of the Jury'. Then I worked with ANGE, famous French progressive rock group, on the tour 'Les larmes du Dalaï-Lama' in 1993. I will do my 1st Olympia with them at the age of 22. It was a wonderful adventure. Then I worked a lot in the middle of the Blues and the French song, recorded many discs and the tours that follow one another. And then a 6-month experience alongside NINO FERRER interrupted following his suicide. Since 2005, I have been touring and recording with the Dijon pianist-singer DOROTHEE DANIEL. Two albums have been released : 'the company of angels' (2005) and 'at the top of the poplars' (2007). I worked as a drummer with the film music composer Renaud BARBIER (the snake) for a TV series called " Hospital "(2007) Signatures on labels? No I am not signed and that suits me very well. On the other hand, I am distributed by MUSEA in France and abroad. How do you organize your promotion? I am only at the beginning of this adventure and as it is not the people who are going to pick you up, I spend a lot of time on myspace, sending out invitations to people from all over the world because my project is universal. I consider this process to be a work in its own right that any independent artist must do if he wants to exist. I send my CD to specialized French and foreign magazines. I wish to remain independent. At present, it is better to be only distributed but to sign a contract with a record company, no thanks. Your influences ? Progressive rock from the seventies, ambient, electro, funk from the seventies and then minimalist music. 3 great musicians that you respect? 1 - Drummer Bill Bruford (Yes, King Crimson, UK ...), 2 - minimalist composer John Adams 3 - The great composer and pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff Plans for the future? I am in the process of recruiting musicians because I would like this project to live and develop on stage. And then, I start to work on a new album but this time I collaborate with a singer from India and it's very exciting to mix our respective cultures. To be continued....

With Renaud Barbier Film Music Composer 2021 Aux Temps des Dinosaures (B.O.) Documentaire France Télévisions 16 titres ​ Piano & Programmation : Renaud Barbier Musiciens : Guillaume Latour , Charlotte Gaillard Emmanuelle Dautry , Pierre-François Dufour , Ami Seta , Philippe Cottin, Dominique Vincent , Louis Verchere , Florent Hervier et Fabrice Bony (Lithophones) ​ ​ 2020/2021 Pas Si Bêtes ! (B.O.) Les Mystères de l'Oie Série Documentaire Arte 16 titres ​ Piano & Programmation : Renaud Barbier Lithophones & Percussions : Fabrice Bony Saxophones & Clarinettes : Gilles Grivolla Guitares & Ukulele : Benoit Medrykowski 2020/2021 Pas Si Bêtes ! (B.O.) Les Chèvres Savantes et le Lapin Sauvage Série Documentaire Arte 22 titres ​ Piano & Programmation : Renaud Barbier Lithophones & Percussions : Fabrice Bony Saxophones & Clarinettes : Gilles Grivolla Guitares & Ukulele : Benoit Medrykowski 2020 Petit Pays (B.O.) Film , Cinéma. 25 titres ​ Piano & Programmation : Renaud Barbier Trompette : Marc Niess Lithophones : Fabrice Bony 2019/2020 The New Wild Worlds (BO) Arte Documentary Series 29 tracks ​ Piano & Programming: Renaud Barbier Lithophones & Percussions: Fabrice Bony 2015 When Homo Sapiens made his cinema (soundtrack) Documentary Arte 17 tracks ​ Piano & Programming: Renaud Barbier Lithophones & Percussions: Fabrice Bony

S AMANTHA Z ACCARIE & F ABRICE B ONY Metamorphosis Ep 6 tracks, Released July 2020 All the compositions are by Samantha ZACCARIE & Fabrice BONY. Samantha ZACCARIE: Jew's harp , vocals, backing vocals & bells Fabrice BONY: Folk guitar, elven psaltery, bass tom, cymbals, shaker & backing vocals Photo / Cover: Samantha ZACCARIE Recorded at Lesson Home Studio , Rochefort (17) Sound recording: Fabrice BONY / Mixing: Fabrice BONY & Samantha ZACCARIE Mastering: Jean-Lou GIROLD - Studio Ajl-Rec, Dinozé (88) C ONFIT F UNKY " Let's be less crestfallen, let's take the funky bush!" The tube of (de) containment has (finally) arrived !!! Lyrics / Lyrics As the pathways of nervous system regulation are impenetrable and multiple, this is one of those we have taken in these particular times. Knowing that a good confit is the result of a subtle association between the time factor and good local ingredients, we hope that this formula will give you satisfaction (to obtain the recipe, please contact us in Mp). ​ S AMANTHA Z ACCARIE : Author, performer, voice, choirs, recording, editing & video production. F ABRICE B ONY : Composer, performer, drums, bass, guitars, rhodes, synths, choirs, sound recording, mixing, recording & video editing. Recorded music and filming of the official music video at Lesson Home Studio , Rochefort (17) - France Release April 23, 2020 The Devil's Evening (Angel) Samantha Zaccarie: Vocals Fabrice Bony: Folk guitar & Lithophone April 13, 2020 Don't you doubt (Shannon Wright) Samantha Zaccarie: Voice & Bass Tom Fabrice Bony: Folk guitar March 30, 2020 Born in Xixax (Nina Hagen) Samantha Zaccarie: Vocals, radio solo & delirium Fabrice Bony: Electric guitar March 24, 2020 Sacred Geranium (Dick Annegarn) Samantha Zaccarie: Vocals & Watering Fabrice Bony: Folk guitar March 18, 2020