Ferdinand En Avant, Huit Chansons en Huit Langues (English: Ferdinand Forward, Eight Songs in Eight Languages), often referred to as En Avant, is the second solo album by French avant-rock bass guitarist and composer, Ferdinand Richard. It was recorded in 1983 at Sunrise Studios in Kirchberg, Switzerland, and was released on LP record by the Recommended Records affiliated Swiss independent record label, RecRec Music the same year.

En Avant consists of eight avant-rock songs sung in English, Vietnamese, Arabic, Polish, Dioula, Spanish, French and German. The music was scored for two bass guitars and a cello by Richard, who also wrote the lyrics for, and sang seven of the eight songs. The lyrics for the songs on En Avant are printed in the album liner notes in English, French and German.

In 2001 the French independent record label, Orkhêstra reissued En Avant and Richard's previous solo album, En Forme!! on a single CD.

Ferdinand Richard was the founding member of the French avant-rock group Etron Fou Leloublan in 1973, and was a member of a number of other musical ensembles, including Gestalt et Jive, Bruniferd and his own band, Ferdinand et les Philosophes. Richard also collaborated with English experimental guitarist Fred Frith from the English avant-rock group Henry Cow to record Dropera (1991), a "twisted rock opera".

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