Christoph H. Müller (born 1967) is a Swiss musician, composer, producer and audio engineer. He is best known as a co-founder of the electronica/neotango band

Gotan Project Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris (France), consisting of musicians Eduardo Makaroff (Argentine), Philippe Cohen Solal (French) and Christoph H. Müller (Swiss), a former member of Touch El Arab.Madlen Albrecht ''Le développemen ...

. He is currently a founding and active member of Plaza Francia Orchestra & Müller & Makaroff, both with long time collaborator

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Biography

As a teenager, Müller was part of different bands, including Touch El Arab, whose song "Muhammar" became a top 5 hit in Switzerland in 1987. After studies at the Universities of Basel and Zürich he moved to Paris to study at "Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales". At the same time he continued music and founded together with Paris-based American singer/songwriter Gabriela Arnon the band Ten Mother Tongues. They released one album in 1997, called ''The Listening Tree''. In 1995 he started a close collaboration with French label Ya Basta records. He released tracks under such names as "The Boyz from Brazil" with his future colleague

Philippe Cohen Solal Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris (France), consisting of musicians Eduardo Makaroff (Argentine), Philippe Cohen Solal (French) and Christoph H. Müller (Swiss), a former member of Touch El Arab.Madlen Albrecht ''Le développemen ...

, "Stereo Action Unlimited", and "Fruit of the loop" and worked on music for short films, TV jingles and advertising. In 1999 he co-founded, together with Argentinean musician

and French producer

, whose new form of Argentinean tango has had huge success all over the world. They released three albums: ''

La Revancha del Tango ''La Revancha del Tango'' is the debut album by French musical group Gotan Project. It was released on 22 October 2001 on XL Recordings and ¡Ya Basta! Records. The album contains a cover of the title track from Frank Zappa's 1970 album ''Chunga ...

'' (2001), '' Lunatico'' (2006) and ''

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'' (2010), and did three successful world tours, until the fall of 2011. At the same time, Müller founded his own production company, March:Music, in 2004 to develop his other musical projects, like his solo project Roy Dubb and – together with Afro Peruvian musicians – the project RADIOKIJADA, whose first album ''Nuevos Sonidos Afro Peruanos'' was released in 2009 on Wrasse records. The album garnered rave reviews in the UK, and the band played at the WOMAD festival in Reading, being one of the highlights, according to ''The Guardian''. In 2005 he co-composed with

the original music for ''

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'', a film by

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, and in 2007/2008 the soundtrack for ''El Gaucho'', a documentary fiction film by Argentinean director Andres Jarach. The composer/producer duo Müller & Makaroff was thus born. During 2012 & 2013 Müller & Makaroff wrote music for the short film ''Reencuentro'' by Argentinean director Pablo Giorgelli (Camera d’or in Cannes for his film '' Las Acacias'') and for ''Evita'', a radio lecture written by Pablo Agüero starring French actress

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. Also in 2012 he started a collaboration with electronic music icon Hans-Joachim Roedelius (from Krautrock band

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). They played live together in Paris and in Lunz (Austria). In 2014, Müller &

together collaborated with vocalist

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to form a new band called ''Plaza Francia''. This resulted in their 7 April 2014 release ''A New Tango Song Book'' and a subsequent French/European tour which ended in November 2015. In 2015, the first album of his collaboration with

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, ''Imagori'', was released by Groenland Records. In 2018 Plaza Francia changed its name to '' Plaza Francia Orchestra and released a self titled album featuring

, Lura and Maria Muliterno on vocals. They also collaborated on this record with Argentinean musicians Pablo Gignoli and Sebastian Volco. The album cover was designed by Argentinian artist

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who was based in Paris. They started a new tour during Summer 2018 which ended in Abu Dhabi in Autumn 2019. Also in 2018, Müller released the second album of his collaboration with Roedelius, ''Imagori II''. Müller &

have also re-started touring, recording & performing under the moniker Müller & Makaroff. In December 2019, they collaborate with visual artist Ian Kornfeld for a new project ANTROPOCENO! which was released for the first time at COP25 in Madrid. The first single ''Antropoceno (atentas al)'' featuring

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, Hilda Lizarazu and Mia Folino was released in the Autmumn of 2020 which was performed at the 2020 UN Global Climate Action Awards. This single was followed by ''Ahora'' featuring the voices of Greta Thunberg and

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. In May 2022 they released ''Todo puede suceder'' featuring

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in a joint operation with

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's EarthPercent organisation.

Discography

Albums and EPs

1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, k ...

: Touch el Arab - ''We Believe'' *

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

: Touch el Arab - ''LRK'' *

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

: Touch el Arab - ''Limited'' *

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

: Ten Mother Tongues - ''The Listening Tree'' *

: Fruit of the Loop - ''S*xplore'' (maxi 12") *

: The Boyz from Brazil - ''Solidao'' (maxi 12") *

: The Boyz from Brazil - ''Chica Boom'' (maxi 12") *

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

: Stereo Action Unlimited - ''Hifi Trumpet'' *

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

: The Boyz from Brazil *

: Gotan Project - ''Vuelvo al sur/El capitalismo foraneo'' (maxi 10") *

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

: Gotan Project - ''Santa Maria'' (maxi 10") *

: Gotan Project - ''Triptico'' (maxi 10") *

: Stereo Action Unlimited - ''Lovelight'' (maxi 12") *

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

: Gotan Project - ''

La revancha del tango ''La Revancha del Tango'' is the debut album by French musical group Gotan Project. It was released on 22 October 2001 on XL Recordings and ¡Ya Basta! Records. The album contains a cover of the title track from Frank Zappa's 1970 album ''Chunga ...

'' *

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

: Radiokijada - ''Nuevos sonidos afroperuanos part I'' (maxi 12") *

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

: Gotan Project - '' Lunatico'' *

: Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé (soundtrack) *

: Roy Dubb - ''Harambe'' (maxi 12") *

: Roy Dubb - ''Afro Blue'' (maxi 12") *

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

: Les Meilleurs Meilleurs - ''livre CD pour enfants'' *

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

: Soundtrack of the film ''El gaucho'' *

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

: Radiokijada - ''Nuevos sonidos afroperuanos'' *

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

: Gotan Project - ''

'' *

2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

: Plaza Francia - ''A new tango songbook'' *

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

: Plaza Francia - ''Live Re-Experience'' *

: Mueller_Roedelius - ''Imagori'' *

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

: Plaza Francia Orchestra - ''Plaza Francia Orchestra'' *

: Mueller_Roedelius - ''Imagori II''

Compilations

: ''TransEuropa: A Swiss-Swedish Techno Sampler '' *

: ''Stop the Army Vol.I'' *

: Soundtrack of the film ''Clubbed to death'' *

: Soundtrack of the film ''Je ne voudrais pas crever un dimanche'' *

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

: ''Inspiracion/Espiracion: A Gotan Project DJ set'' *

: ''Ya Basta Records: 10 years after all'' Gotan Project's music has been released on many compilation albums and has been used in many feature films and TV series.

Filmography

Original music

* ''Je n'aimerais pas crever un dimanche'' (1998) * ''

'' (2005) * ''El gaucho'' (de Andrés Jarach) (2009) * ''

Au fil d'Ariane ''Ariane's Thread'' (french: Au fil d'Ariane) is a 2014 French comedy-drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian and written by Guédiguian and Serge Valletti. Cast * Ariane Ascaride as Ariane * Jacques Boudet as Jack * Jean-Pierre Darroussin ...

'' (2014)

With Gotan Project

* Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) "Santa Maria (del buen ayre)" * Shall We Dance - "Santa María (del buen ayre)” 2001 * Ocean's 12 - "El Capitalismo Foraneo" * The Bourne Identity - "Época" * The Truth about Charlie - "Época" * Meant to Be - "Época" * Knight & Day - "Santa María (del buen ayre)” "Santa María Pepe Braddock rmx" "Diferente" * Lies & Alibis - "Santa María (del buen ayre)“ * Guess Who - "Queremos Paz" * Benjamim - "Vuelvo al Sur" * Powder Blue - "Amor Porteño"

Documentaries

* ''El Gaucho'' (directed by Andres Jarach)

With Gotan Project

* ''Maradona, Gamin en Or'' * ''The Take'' (directed by Naomi Klein)

TV series

With Gotan Project

;''Nip/Tuck'' * S05E13 - "El Capitalismo Foráneo" * S03E15 - "Santa María (del buen ayre)” ;''Chuck'' * S01E03 - "Santa María (del buen ayre)“ ;''Sex and the City'' * S06E20 - "Queremos Paz" ;''Six Feet Under'' * S03E09 - "Vuelvo al Sur" ;''Brothers & Sisters'' * S04E05 - "Santa María (del buen ayre) ;''Dancing With the Stars'' (2009) * Round Eight - "Santa María (del buen ayre) * Round Six -"Mi Confesión" * Round Three - "Cité Tango" ;''So You Think You Can Dance'' * USA # Top 12 Perform (2011) - "Tríptico" # Top 18 Perform (2008) - "Mi Confesión" * Canada # Top 20 (2008) - "Santa María (del buen ayre)” * Australia # Top 16 Perform (2008) - "Santa María (del buen ayre)“

Awards

* BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music UK - 2003 * BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music UK - 2007 * Victoires de la Musique France - 2003 *Grand Prix SACEM France - 2010

Distinctions

* Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres

References

External links

Gotan Project Official Website

Plaza Francia Official Website

Müller & Makaroff Official Website

ANTROPOCENO! Music & Science

Radiokijada.com

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