EDWARD PERRAUD

A passion to play, in the mere sense of the word, a craving for music which leads to embrace all kinds of music, unbiased and unrestrained.
A self-taught formation in the beginning make him  discover chronologically rock, classical music, traditional and the «contemporary» music.
He studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Music in Paris from 1996 to 1999, with Michael Levinas in the class of Musical Analysis and with famous jazz drummer Daniel Humair.
Student at IRCAM from 1995 to 1996.
Jazz music deeply influences his way of playing drums, more and more pushing him to free improvisation, and experimentations on sounds.
A band which allows him to gather all the forces that lead him and let him discover improvisation: Shubniggurath, his first recording in 1990.
He found his own label Quark Records in 2005.
With Das Kapital he won the Critics’ Price in Germany (Preiss der deutsche Kritik) in 2011.
In January 2011 he found his own quartet: Synaesthetic Trip with Benoit Delbecq, Bart Maris and Arnault Cuisinier.
Since then, many projects:
- Duo Calx (with Jean-Luc Guionnet),
- Big (Drum & Bass) and BIG POP (free pop band with Frederick Galiay on electric bass),
- Duo √2 with Jean-Pierre Drouet since 2008,
- Duo with Elise Caron (French singer and actress),
- Quintet Hubbub (Matchless records),
- Trio, Das Kapital with Daniel Erdmann (Germany) and Hasse Poulsen (Denmark),
- The Fish with Jean-Luc Guionnet and Benjamin Duboc…
Edward Perraud has played with: Louis Sclavis, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Joëlle Léandre, Michel Portal, Fred Frith, Marc Helias, Vincent Courtois, Claude Tchamitchian, Joe Rosenberg, Bruno Chevillon, Alan Silva, Andrea Parkins, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Paul Rogers, Dan Warburton, John Butcher, John Edwards, Johannes Bauer, Bernard Lubat, Daunik Lazro, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Didier Petit, Camel Zekri, Lucia Recio, Olivier Benoit, Peter Scherr, Sylvain Kassap, Itaru Oki etc…
He recorded around 50 albums on various european, american and asian labels.
Many Tours all over the world, Usa, Canada, China, Asia, Europe…
Believer of self-denial a claimed evolution where everything has to be possible.
www.edwardperraud.com

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