Ghédalia Tazartès (12 May 1947 – 9 February 2021) was a French musician.

Biography

Tazartès was born into a

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family in the

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. He quickly ascended into a musical career, with musician

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defining his music as "unclassifiable". He rarely performed in concerts and released few albums, but was still able to make a living from dance, theatre, and cinema. Tazartès was often perceived to be in the

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genre, thanks to his manipulation of Revox tapes, although he later discovered the works of Pierre Schaeffer and

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. He collaborated with

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on the albums ''La Ronde'' and ''Diasporas / Tazartès''. According to Pierre Hemptinne, "What interests him is what these sound objects have to say about the world around us, the tangible and intangible world, the world of commercial and non-commercial exchange. It makes them more talkative, it makes them talk by plunging them into arrangements which are foreign to them. He cuts and edits sound images according to the techniques used in cinema and this technique brings out their meaning". Web magazine ''Néosphères'' said that "he reappropriates or recreates the idioms of certain traditional music". Additionally, he taught himself how to play a number of different instruments. Ghédalia Tazartès died in Paris on 9 February 2021 at the age of 73.

Discography

*''Diasporas'' (1979) *''Tazartès' transports'' (1980) *''Une éclipse totale de soleil'' (1984) *''Tazartès'' (1987) *''Check Point Charlie'' (1990) *''Voyage à l’ombre'' (1997) *''5 Rimbaud 1 Verlaine'' (2006) *''Les Danseurs de la pluie'' (2006) *''Jeanne'' (2007) *''Hystérie off Music'' (2007) *''Repas froid'' (2009) *''Ante Mortem'' (2010) *''Superdisque'', with

and

Jac Berrocal Jacques "Jac" Berrocal (born 22 October 1946, Saint-Jean d'Angély) is a French trumpeter, singer and composer. He has been active since the 1970s in the independent and avant-garde music scene, and has released many albums. He also founded and p ...

(2011)

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