Francis Rimbert
| Francis Rimbert | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 October 1952 |
| Origin | Val d'Oise, France |
| Genres | Electronic, instrumental, new-age, ambient, lounge |
| Occupation(s) |
Pianist, Keyboardist, Composer, Musician, Artist |
| Instruments |
Piano, Synthesizer, keyboard |
| Labels |
C.ZEN PROD, Atomic Quill Music |
| Website | www.francisrimbert.com |
Francis Rimbert (born 3 October 1952 in Val d'Oise, France) is a French musician and composer.
Francis Rimbert started playing classical piano when he was 5 years old. At the conservatory, he studied harmony, counterpoint, the fugue and orchestral leading. He won first prize in piano and moved onto Paris where he became a salesman, working in a music store which by chance imported synthesizers, at a time when nobody has sold such before.
He became interested in those electronic instruments and took the stage (Theatre des Champs Elysées – Paris) solo, surrounded by all his synthesizers (Bionic Orchestra, 1979).
Rimbert met another proponent of the synthesizer: Jean Michel Jarre, through a mutual friend Michel Geiss, in 1979 at Jarre's concert in Place de La Concorde, Paris. Since the 1986 Rendez-vous Houston concert, Rimbert has been at Jarre’s side on stage.
Aside from his work on various albums for Jarre, Rimbert has created several works of sonic illustration and has won first prize at the international festival of electronic music in Tokyo in 1988 (chaired by Isao Tomita).
In 1994, Rimbert created music for some video games.
In 2003, Rimbert released a new album, entitled Double Face. Gaelick is an homage to Michael Flatley (Lord of the Dance (musical)) and the lightness of the Irish dance.
In 2005, American distributor Atomic Quill Music signed a distribution contract and 10,000 units of Double Face were pressed. Rimbert performed a showcase during the Fuse-In festival in Detroit and held a release party at Record Time, a Detroit shop of electronic music. Various titles were remixed by American Djs, including Kenneth Thomas and D:Fuse and distributed by Moist Music.
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