Patrick Rondat
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Patrick Rondat is a French
guitarist. He plays instrumental heavy metal associated with diverse influences such as new age music, progressive metal
, classical music
and jazz
. He appears in some shows by Jean Michel Jarre
.
, Consortium Project, Red Circuit
, G3
with Joe Satriani
and Steve Vai
, and Jean Michel Jarre
. He is also featured on the song "Rainmaker" on Vanden Plas
's Spirit of Live
album.
He participated in the compilation "Rock Hard appointment" (Vogue, 1989), which made him known to a wider audience, and began an French tour with Blue Oyster Cult. The release of the debut solo album "Just For Fun" confirms his position as leader of the metal instrumental.
He began touring with "Rape of the Earth" (Vogue / Music For Nation 1991). His first two albums are distributed internationally, and he is involved in the famous live show BBC Radio 1 London, in which the technique is still present, with compositions more mature and accomplished. Alongside his solo career, Patrick has worked with other artists.
The meeting with Jarre in 1991 opened new horizons in music. After his participation in Monsters of Rock (AC/DC
, Metallica
, Queensrÿche
etc ...), he began working with Jean-Michel, recording the album Chronologie
which led to participation in an impressive series of concerts around the world, including one at Wembley Stadium
in 1993.
This meeting also led to the recording of "Amphibia" (FDM 1996), produced by Jean-Michel, on which he is accompanied by Tommy Aldridge
and Patrice Guers
. This album continues the musical change in "Rape of the Earth" where the compositions of progressive influences are affirmed in an adaptation of the landmark Presto Vivaldi
(Vivaldi Tribute).
Other artists cross the path of Patrick on several occasions, including Tony Mac Alpine, Simon Phillips
, Steve Lukather
, Stu Hamm (Cannes music passion) and Gary Moore
(BBM
) which provides the first part at the Zenith in Paris, then the invitation to join Joe Satriani 's
's tour G3
(1998) with Michael Schenker
, for 14 very memorable shows.
In 1999, Patrick released "On the Edge" (FDM), a transition album exploring other musical worlds. Along with Patrick, Tommy Aldridge, and Guers, two other prestigious musicians are invited: Didier Lockwood
and Michel Petrucciani
.
During this period, he began a collaboration with English singer Ian Parry, participating in the Consortium Project . He recorded two albums and toured Europe together with Patrice Guers (who will join Rhapsody a few years later), Dirk Bruinenberg (drummer of Elegy , with drummer Patrick appointed from this time), Stephan Lill, and Gunter Verno ( Vanden Plas ). After this positive experience, Patrick Holland joined the group "Elegy" for two albums, followed by a tour around the world.
Jean-Michel Jarre prompt on new gigs: Monaco
, Gdansk, Athens, Beijing (Universal DVD), it's time for Patrick to prepare his new solo album "An ephemeral world" (2004 NTS), our concept album evoking the ephemeral. Regarded by many as his most successful album, it confirmed its qualities as a composer and outstanding instrumentalist. Allen then joins a tour with the band Freak Kitchen
, and the arrival of Manu Martin on keyboards strengthens team spirit.
In the encounter with classical pianist Hervé N'Kaoua in 2008, the collaboration requires discipline and humility. The duo, often conflicting cultures, offers a new perspective on the sonatas for piano and violin (Fauré / Beethoven
), and also pieces for orchestra (Winter A. Vivaldi). The recording of this album is followed by concerts in France and Italy in 2009, and XIII bis Records released a 5 CD box set tracing his career (Just for fun, Rape Of The Earth, An ephemeral world, Patrick Hervé N'Kaoua Rondat Live Channel unpublished 93-2005).
For over twenty years, Patrick has also been dedicated to teaching and considers it essential to transmit and share his musical legacy. Thus he presents workshops, master classes in France and abroad, and has recorded an instructional DVD (virtuosity and velocity -1997).
Both, Harrison Ford
and Hugh Grant
, have mentioned him as their favourite music artist.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
guitarist. He plays instrumental heavy metal associated with diverse influences such as new age music, progressive metal
Progressive metal
Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...
, classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
and jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
. He appears in some shows by Jean Michel Jarre
Jean Michel Jarre
Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...
.
Biography
He has played with ElegyElegy (Netherlands band)
Elegy are a Dutch power metal band, founded in 1986 in Eindhoven. Their music is characterized by the fusion of power and progressive metal, which made them the pioneers of the 'progressive power metal' subgenre. The band was plagued by a continuing changing roster, which counts in the current...
, Consortium Project, Red Circuit
Red Circuit
Red Circuit is a Progressive metal Supergroup from Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany. It features members and guest musicians from renowned bands such as Vanden Plas, Adagio, Firewind and Elegy. The band's debut album, Trance State, was recorded at "Bazement"- Studios near Frankfurt and released February...
, G3
G3 (tour)
G3 is a concert tour organized by guitarist Joe Satriani featuring him alongside two other guitarists. Since its inception in 1996, G3 has toured most years and has featured many guitarists, including Steve Vai , Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, Robert Fripp,...
with Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani
Joseph "Joe" Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations...
and Steve Vai
Steve Vai
Steven Siro "Steve" Vai is a three time Grammy Award-winning American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. Steve Vai is widely known as a flamboyant guitar virtuoso....
, and Jean Michel Jarre
Jean Michel Jarre
Jean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...
. He is also featured on the song "Rainmaker" on Vanden Plas
Vanden Plas (band)
Vanden Plas is a German progressive metal band, based in Kaiserslautern and founded in the mid 1980s. In 1991, they recorded the song "Keep On Running" as an anthem for the local national league football club FC Kaiserslautern, and did the same in 1994 with "Das Ist Für Euch"...
's Spirit of Live
Spirit of Live
Spirit of Live is the first live album by the progressive metal band Vanden Plas. The song "Kiss of Death" features Don Dokken as guest on lead vocals and "Rainmaker" features Patrick Rondat as guest on lead guitar.-Track listing:# "I Can See" - 4:26...
album.
He participated in the compilation "Rock Hard appointment" (Vogue, 1989), which made him known to a wider audience, and began an French tour with Blue Oyster Cult. The release of the debut solo album "Just For Fun" confirms his position as leader of the metal instrumental.
He began touring with "Rape of the Earth" (Vogue / Music For Nation 1991). His first two albums are distributed internationally, and he is involved in the famous live show BBC Radio 1 London, in which the technique is still present, with compositions more mature and accomplished. Alongside his solo career, Patrick has worked with other artists.
The meeting with Jarre in 1991 opened new horizons in music. After his participation in Monsters of Rock (AC/DC
AC/DC
AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...
, Metallica
Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...
, Queensrÿche
Queensrÿche
thumb|250px|right|Queensrÿche's classic line-up performing at the [[Sauna Open Air Metal Festival]] 2011 in [[Tampere]], [[Finland]]. Left to right: bass Eddie Jackson, lead vocals Geoff Tate, drums Scott Rockenfield and guitars Michael Wilton....
etc ...), he began working with Jean-Michel, recording the album Chronologie
Chronologie
Chronologie is an album by French electronic musician Jean Michel Jarre, and was released on Disques Dreyfus in 1993. It is his eighth overall studio album. It is inspired by Stephen Hawking's book A Brief History of Time...
which led to participation in an impressive series of concerts around the world, including one at Wembley Stadium
Wembley Stadium
The original Wembley Stadium, officially known as the Empire Stadium, was a football stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the new Wembley Stadium that opened in 2007...
in 1993.
This meeting also led to the recording of "Amphibia" (FDM 1996), produced by Jean-Michel, on which he is accompanied by Tommy Aldridge
Tommy Aldridge
Tommy Aldridge is a veteran heavy metal and hard rock drummer. Aldridge is noted for his work with numerous bands and vocalists, most notable being Black Oak Arkansas, Pat Travers Band, Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Moore, Whitesnake, Ted Nugent and Thin Lizzy.Self taught, Aldridge was inspired by Cream,...
and Patrice Guers
Patrice Guers
Patrice Guers is the former bassist of the Italian symphonic metal band Rhapsody of Fire. He joined the band after Alessandro Lotta left the band and performed with them until 2011, when he departed with guitarist Luca Turilli. He started playing bass at the age of fourteen and he started lessons...
. This album continues the musical change in "Rape of the Earth" where the compositions of progressive influences are affirmed in an adaptation of the landmark Presto Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
(Vivaldi Tribute).
Other artists cross the path of Patrick on several occasions, including Tony Mac Alpine, Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips
Simon Phillips is an English jazz, pop and rock drummer.-Career:Phillips began to play professionally at the age of twelve in his father's Dixieland band for four years. He was then offered the chance to play in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar...
, Steve Lukather
Steve Lukather
Steve "Luke" Lukather is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer best known for his work with the rock band Toto. Lukather has played with many artists, released several solo albums, and worked as a composer, arranger, and session guitarist on more than 1,500 albums...
, Stu Hamm (Cannes music passion) and Gary Moore
Gary Moore
Robert William Gary Moore , better known simply as Gary Moore, was a Northern Irish musician from Belfast, best recognised as a blues rock guitarist and singer....
(BBM
BBM
BBM is the name of the short-lived power trio formed in 1993, by long established artists, bassist Jack Bruce, drummer Ginger Baker and guitarist Gary Moore. They released just one album, entitled Around The Next Dream, which was released on the Virgin record label...
) which provides the first part at the Zenith in Paris, then the invitation to join Joe Satriani 's
Joe Satriani
Joseph "Joe" Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations...
's tour G3
G3 (tour)
G3 is a concert tour organized by guitarist Joe Satriani featuring him alongside two other guitarists. Since its inception in 1996, G3 has toured most years and has featured many guitarists, including Steve Vai , Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, Robert Fripp,...
(1998) with Michael Schenker
Michael Schenker
Michael Schenker is a German rock guitarist, best known for his tenure in UFO, in addition to his solo band. He first rose to fame as a founding member of the Scorpions, then achieved fame in the mid 1970s as the lead guitar player for UFO. Since leaving UFO in 1978, he has been leading the...
, for 14 very memorable shows.
In 1999, Patrick released "On the Edge" (FDM), a transition album exploring other musical worlds. Along with Patrick, Tommy Aldridge, and Guers, two other prestigious musicians are invited: Didier Lockwood
Didier Lockwood
Didier Lockwood is a French jazz violinist. He played in the progressive rock/jazz fusion band Magma in the 1970s and is known for his use of electric amplification and experimentation on different sounds on the electric violin....
and Michel Petrucciani
Michel Petrucciani
Michel Petrucciani was a French jazz pianist.-Biography:...
.
During this period, he began a collaboration with English singer Ian Parry, participating in the Consortium Project . He recorded two albums and toured Europe together with Patrice Guers (who will join Rhapsody a few years later), Dirk Bruinenberg (drummer of Elegy , with drummer Patrick appointed from this time), Stephan Lill, and Gunter Verno ( Vanden Plas ). After this positive experience, Patrick Holland joined the group "Elegy" for two albums, followed by a tour around the world.
Jean-Michel Jarre prompt on new gigs: Monaco
Monaco
Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...
, Gdansk, Athens, Beijing (Universal DVD), it's time for Patrick to prepare his new solo album "An ephemeral world" (2004 NTS), our concept album evoking the ephemeral. Regarded by many as his most successful album, it confirmed its qualities as a composer and outstanding instrumentalist. Allen then joins a tour with the band Freak Kitchen
Freak Kitchen
Freak Kitchen is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1992. Because of the high technical level of their compositions people sometimes refer to their style as progressive metal or progressive rock.-History:...
, and the arrival of Manu Martin on keyboards strengthens team spirit.
In the encounter with classical pianist Hervé N'Kaoua in 2008, the collaboration requires discipline and humility. The duo, often conflicting cultures, offers a new perspective on the sonatas for piano and violin (Fauré / Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
), and also pieces for orchestra (Winter A. Vivaldi). The recording of this album is followed by concerts in France and Italy in 2009, and XIII bis Records released a 5 CD box set tracing his career (Just for fun, Rape Of The Earth, An ephemeral world, Patrick Hervé N'Kaoua Rondat Live Channel unpublished 93-2005).
For over twenty years, Patrick has also been dedicated to teaching and considers it essential to transmit and share his musical legacy. Thus he presents workshops, master classes in France and abroad, and has recorded an instructional DVD (virtuosity and velocity -1997).
Both, Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford is an American film actor and producer. He is famous for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. Ford is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, John Book in Witness and Jack Ryan in...
and Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant
Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His films have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's...
, have mentioned him as their favourite music artist.
Albums
| Title | Release | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time (with The Element) | 1988 | First release with super metal singer "Raphael Garrido" and bassist "Frederic Guillemet", first TV appearance ever with "Rapha" (vocals), "Fredo Guillemet" (bass), "Manu Bensi" (drums), and "Fred Bensi" (keyboards)) | |
| Just for fun | 1989 | re-release 2002 | |
| Rape of the Earth | 1991 | re-release in 1993 & 2002 | |
| Amphibia | 1996 | - | |
| Amphibia | 1997 | Japanese release with bonus live track - Ultimate Dreams | |
| Amphibia | 1998 | European release with 2 bonus live tracks - Burn Out, and Just For Fun | |
| On the Edge | 1999 | With Michel Petrucciani Michel Petrucciani Michel Petrucciani was a French jazz pianist.-Biography:... , Didier Lockwood Didier Lockwood Didier Lockwood is a French jazz violinist. He played in the progressive rock/jazz fusion band Magma in the 1970s and is known for his use of electric amplification and experimentation on different sounds on the electric violin.... , and Tommy Aldridge Tommy Aldridge Tommy Aldridge is a veteran heavy metal and hard rock drummer. Aldridge is noted for his work with numerous bands and vocalists, most notable being Black Oak Arkansas, Pat Travers Band, Ozzy Osbourne, Gary Moore, Whitesnake, Ted Nugent and Thin Lizzy.Self taught, Aldridge was inspired by Cream,... |
|
| Elegy | 2000 | With Dirk Bruinenberg Dirk Bruinenberg Dirk Bruinenberg is a Dutch musician known as the former drummer of several European progressive metal and power metal bands, including: Elegy, Ian Parry's Consortium Project and Adagio... on drums |
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| An Ephemeral World | 2004 | With Dirk Bruinenberg Dirk Bruinenberg Dirk Bruinenberg is a Dutch musician known as the former drummer of several European progressive metal and power metal bands, including: Elegy, Ian Parry's Consortium Project and Adagio... - drums (Elegy Elegy (Netherlands band) Elegy are a Dutch power metal band, founded in 1986 in Eindhoven. Their music is characterized by the fusion of power and progressive metal, which made them the pioneers of the 'progressive power metal' subgenre. The band was plagued by a continuing changing roster, which counts in the current... , Adagio Adagio (band) Adagio is a French progressive metal band formed in 2001 by guitarist Stephan Forté. Adagio's music is known by its technical precision and dark orchestration. Adagio keeps unqiue complex lead workings which are complimented with a powerful and driving rhythm section... ), Patrice Guers Patrice Guers Patrice Guers is the former bassist of the Italian symphonic metal band Rhapsody of Fire. He joined the band after Alessandro Lotta left the band and performed with them until 2011, when he departed with guitarist Luca Turilli. He started playing bass at the age of fourteen and he started lessons... - bass (Rhapsody of Fire Rhapsody of Fire Rhapsody of Fire is an Italian symphonic power metal band led by Alex Staropoli. Since forming in 1993, the band has released eight studio albums, one live album, two EPs, and a live DVD... ), and Manu Martin - keyboards |
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| Patrick Rondat & Hervé N'Kaoua | 2008 | With Hervé N'Kaoua on Piano | |
| Super Eurobeat 197 ~King Of Eurobeat~ Super Eurobeat Super Eurobeat is a CD compilation series of Eurobeat music in Japan. The series itself is one of the longest running in the entire world. It has been running for over twenty years and consists of 214 volumes as of May 2011... |
2009 | Performed "Fire Dragon" with Dave Rodgers Dave Rodgers Dave Rodgers is an Italian songwriter, composer, and producer.Born in Mantua, he started production with the band Aleph. Since then, he has collaborated with artists from around the world and has produced several multi-platinum albums... (Giancarlo Pasquini) on vocals |