JULIAN JULIEN
Genres: Nu Jazz, Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Exotica • France

Julian Julien is the frontman and founder member of the instrumental jazzy-Zeuhl collective Fractale (free-form heavy-jazz improvs. One album has been published under this name and entitled Live Suranné, 2008) Julian Julien started his composing works back in the early 90s. He first released an orchestrated live piece La tombe des lucioles (1993), then follows up on a soundtrack for the french documentary "Mémoire d'un maître chien". He finally auto-published his first complete album entitled Tupperware et Bibelot in between 1998 and 1999. in 2000 is published the album "Terre", then "Strange" (2006). The musical signature of these two official efforts oscillate between avant-garde-minimalism (mantric-like meditation) and psyched-out jazz. the musical direction sounds close to the world inflected jazz of Oregon, Codona, Brother Ah (...)the classical minimal epics of Jon Hassel, Ingram Marshall (with the add of punchy cosmic grooves) with a discreet reminiscence to Magma, Dün and a few other read more...