Anton Barbeau
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| Background information | |
| Born | April 24, 1967 |
| Origin | Sacramento, California, US |
| Genres | Pop Singer-songwriter Psychedelic |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Vocals guitar piano synthesizers bass drums |
| Years active | 1984–present |
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| Website | antonbarbeau |
Anton Barbeau is an American psychedelic singer-songwriter and producer from Sacramento, California. He is a multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, piano, bass guitar, drums, and synthesizers.
Barbeau is known for combining surreal lyrics with pop melodies and has been described as being in the songwriting tradition of Robyn Hitchcock, Syd Barrett, XTC, and The Beatles. He has shared stages with artists like Hitchcock, Julian Cope, The Bevis Frond, Weezer, Mono, and a reformed Bay City Rollers.
His first CD, The Horse's Tongue, collected songs that had appeared on a number of self-released cassettes. Since then he has released more than twenty albums, a number of singles and EPs, several anthologies, and collaborations with other artists.
In the early 2000s, Barbeau began working extensively in the UK. His album King of Missouri was recorded in Bromley with neo-psychedelic band The Bevis Frond. The launch gig for Barbeau's following album, Guladong, took place at the famous Cavern Club in Liverpool.
Barbeau's collaboration with The Loud Family singer/guitarist Scott Miller, the album What if it Works?, was released in 2006. In the same year, Barbeau's albums Drug Free and In the Village of the Apple Sun were released; the latter was described as "an instant lost psychedelic classic".
Since then, Barbeau has resided mainly in England and Europe. Automatic Door was released in the UK on Oxford's Shifty Disco label in 2007 and in France on Volvox in 2008. Other UK releases include Plastic Guitar (2009) and Psychedelic Mynde of Moses (2010).
Barbeau has also written and produced two albums with Sacramento singer Allyson Seconds, wife of 7 Seconds' singer Kevin Seconds. Her first album, Bag of Kittens, was released in fall of 2009. The second, Little World, was released in 2016 to critical acclaim, and featured guests such as Colin Moulding (of XTC), Kimberley Rew (of The Soft Boys and Katrina and the Waves), and Scott Miller.
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