Jean-paul Vivini

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Jean-paul Vivini [1] is a musician born in 1951 in Bordeaux(France). He began to study the piano and the music theory at the age of 7, he went on with the study of the guitar, first rock music then the classical authors with Marc Franceries and Elisabeth Presti. He frequented then "Schola cantorum" and "Ecole normale de musique" of Paris. In 1972 he created with Christian Foache, Paul Sanchez and François Bessac, Patrick Dangles and Pierre Bessac, the band of rock'n'roll psychedelic "Paracelse" which experimented on the stages of the counter-culture in the south of France. He joined then the international band "Mother Gong" with which he plays in Spain and England. During these concerts he shared the stages or the recording studios with musicians of the progressive rock'n'roll like Daevid Allen, Didier Malherbe, Gilly Smith, Lady June, Ax Genrich, Guy Evans, Harry Williamson. He also took part in the recording of several discs in various formations: The Book of am, Scallywag and Nemrod with archie Legett and Barry St John, Dogon with Tasmin Smith. He currently practises the free improvisation, in group or solo, in the margin of the “formatted circuits of the totalitarian industry of a spectacle morbidly commercial” (and thus his ears wide opened to the unknown !