PATRICK LAFRANCE

It is by a "noisy" meeting (first musical tests on drums), that a passion relation began between Patrick and the musical world. When he was fifteen, the passage of the skins to the strings of a guitar is essential, carried by his aspirations with the composition (musics for short-movies). Four years later, in love with the electric sounds, this sound universe pushes him to try out the technological aspects of the sound. And here how for the last twenty five years, Patrick, while going on his way of musician (Denis Leg, Bruno Grimaldi, Headline, Joy Kallen), has made sound technique his principal activity. First of all, by the sound recording in concerts to the musical orientations of different backgrounds (The Pollen, Sixun, Buddy Miles, Barney Willem, Luther Allison, Mike Taylor, Gospel Voices, etc...), and then, by the meeting of a sound engineer in London in command of the Elephant Studio, he creates his own recording studio in Paris (Rhapsody Studio). During eight years, there he will escort and technically accompany artists musicians with the most varied inspirations (The Recycler, Five In The Tribe, Helloween, Carole Frédéricks, Axel Bauer, Bluetrain Jazz, François Michel Duguet, Roy Robbi, Peter Nathanson, Fred Lo etc...). Installed since 2001 in the South-west, teaching director of Adams, center of formation of the technical trades of the live entertainment since two years, the meeting with Didier Ballan Jazz Ensemble has changed very quickly in a true artistic exchange endowed with a generous and productive human dimension. In addition, Patrick nourished by these beneficial waves, continues his project of creation of a recordingstudio on the area of Bordeaux. To Be continued...