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Alain Markusfeld (born April 6, 1950 in Paris, France) is a singer-songwriter, guitar and keyboard instrumentalist.
His influences are multiple and mainly Bulgarian Choirs, traditional music from Burundi, Indian music, Ravi Shankar, Dominic Frontiere, Jimi Hendrix, Terry Riley, Lalo Schifrin Jo Zawinul, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter,Keith Jarret, Weather Report .
As a teenager, he set up two groups, "Les Don Dièses" and "Les Alizés". He composes and plays in various Parisian cabarets, as well as at the Golf Drouot.
The Don Dièses in Competition in Levallois with Bernard Besecque on drums
1968 He is hired by Coluche at La Méthode Ancienne as a singer.
1970 First album released, Le Monde en Etages. He was accompanied by Jean Claude Michaud on bass, Jean Schultheis on drums, organ, piano and vibraphone, Bernard Duplaix on bassoon, flute and saxophone, Denis Lable and Jean Pierre (Rolling) Azoulay on guitar, as well as Tommy Brown on drums, Claude Achalle is on sound recording.
Concerts at the Golf Drouot and the Gibus.
1971 Second album, Le Son tombe du ciel, recorded at the Strawberry studios of the Château d'Hérouville by Dominique Blanc Francard. Alain is at the guitar and vocals, Joel Dugreno of the band Zao on bass and double bass, Geza Fenzl of the band Dynasty Crisis on drums and percussion and Laurent Thibault on piano electric.
Fête de l'Humanité in trio with Jean Schultheis and Jean Claude Michaud.
He also composed the music for the film La Riding Crop (Director Pierre Kalfon)
1972 He composes and records La Croix de Modez and L'Epave accompanied by Jean Claude Michaud, Jean Schultheis, recorded by Dominique Blanc Francart.
1973 He releases a single entitled Le Gluemour on which he plays acoustic and electric guitar, with the track Le Requin Central on the B-side. The Gluemour is chosen by Sam Bernett as the theme song for his Super Club show on RTL.
1976 Studio sales to the Aquarium and the Damiens studio, whose titles have never been distributed.
Concerts at the Bilboquet in Paris
1977 Le Désert Noir is released, where he is on guitars, bass and keyboards. John François Leroy accompanies him on drums and percussion, an album that also includes some of the sessions recorded at Studio Damien, including the title Le Désert Noir with Patricia Pernoo on vocals, Coco Ameziane on percussion and Didier Alexandre on bass on Bulgaro-feld.
The same year, he joined Joan Pau Verdier's group with where he composed Tabou le Chat and Easy Cat Rock.
They will perform the Fête de l'Humanité in front of 120,000 people and also the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and will participate in the first edition of the Printemps de Bourges.
From left to right: Jacques Verrecchia, Jean Claude Michaud, Jean Francois Leroy, Joan Pau Verdier, Anita Bonan and Alain Markusfeld (photo recently given to Alain by Joan Pau during their moving reunion)
1978 A few concerts in duo with Michel Ripoche, including the 1978 edition of Printemps of Bourges.
The album Platock was released, still accompanied by Jean Schultheis on percussion and Patricia Markusfeld on vocals as well as Claude Achalle on sound recording. Concerts at the Lucernaire and the Palais des Arts.
July 3, 1978: Concert at the Olympia, guitar Solo
1979 He releases Contemporus on which he plays all the parts: piano and guitar electroacoustic, organ, percussion, triangle, cymbal, marimba, harmonica, hanclaps and voice. Only the voice of Patricia Markusfeld remains. American pressing on JEM Records.
1980 Tour in Belgium, Brussels and Liège.
Festival de Jazz de Nancy
Interview Guitare Magazine: "Making music in France in 1980 is a matter of heroism!"
1981 He produces and publishes Alain Markusfeld double live recording, recorded in public and on which he plays piano and guitar.
1982 Tour in Brittany.
1984 He releases Les Rêves de Calypso (Town's gold on the B-side), with Alain Pype as sound recording.
1989/1990 He composed Le Fleuve (unpublished).
1992 CD reissue of the album Puissance 13+2, from 1971 collective with the track Iguane
2012 Release of a CD by compilation of tracks from the 70s/80s accompanied by recent unreleased tracks: ROLL OVER THE EIGER TRAIL
2015 Release of a CD of unreleased material LE CRI DU PHOTON SOLITAIRE with the title "EASY CALVADOS BLUES BAND"
2017 Release of the CD "CHAOS OR NOT?" 19 unreleased tracks
2019 Release of the CD "Birds on Call" 11 Unreleased titles
2020 Release of the CD "Asteroid Vagabond" Double album 16 unreleased tracks
2021 Release of the CD "Martian Steppe" 11 unreleased tracks
2022 Release of the CD "Chroniques de L'éphémère" 20 unreleased tracks
2023 Release of the CD "Hors Cadre" 14 Unreleased titles
2024 Release of the CD "Clic on the crique" 17 unreleased tracks
2026 Release of the album "The Passengers of the Halcyon" 13 unreleased tracks on all digital platforms
| A1 | Oasis Under The Stars (L'Oasis Sous Les Étoiles) | 4:10 | |
| A2 | The Floating Soul (L'Âme Flottante) | 3:42 | |
| A3 | Jazz In Casablanca (Jazz À Casablanca) | 3:04 | |
| A4 | Fiesta Atomika (Fiesta Atomikâ) | 3:41 | |
| A5 | It's Raining On The Third Millenium (Il Pleut Sur Le Troisième Millénaire) | 4:17 | |
| Contemporus | |||
| B.1 | 1st Movement | 3:06 | |
| B.2 | 2nd Movement | 5:05 | |
| B.3 | 3rd Movement | 5:00 | |
| B.4 | 4th Movement | 6:22 |