Just can't tell you who you are, but I can tell more about me...

I was born when rock'n roll died in Picardy, France. I was good at school until I got to university. I started learning music at the age of 7 with a teacher who did show me many different styles (waltz, polka, rock, jazz...). When I arrived in Amiens I started to play with different groups, spending most of my time listening and playing many different styles of music. I meet there many people, I start to play bass in Crossroads, I sing and play guitar within Silk, I meet Corinne, I do some little jobs.

Silk 1998

As music is not a good way to earn correctly your life in Picardy I decided to go back seriously to studying and tried to integrate the Louis Lumière cinema school, in the sound department. I learned for the test french and american cinema, but I had questions about contemporary dance and theater. So I got to Valenciennes university in a department specialised in broadcast video and sound, I stay there 2 years, I meet wonderful people.

a rugby match with the university team

After a training at the regional television station France 3 in the first year I'm trying everything I can: mixing, direction, 3D, special effects. My second year's training takes place in Slash Design, a little post house that has the executive production of Les Pirates de la Télé, a full 3D TV show that presents cartoons like the Pokemon. I put in there a network, a Linux server, I'm doing effects on Smoke (Er, in fact at first I did for the most archiving...), I start to live in Paris (not such a dream), I meet people who become friends, and start a new adventure: Post Logic, Discreet reseller, is looking for someone who knows Smoke, networks... it's OK for me. I discover commercials world, cinema... and at the same time I'm building my own home studio, the Plastic Flowers' Garden.

Then I got back to Lille and north of France, bought a house (so much things to do then), and then started to build a new group, the Progressive Groove project, a kind of 60s 70s style Jam band but essentially a pack of good guys to have fun with.

And then...

But just before, let's go back to the roots and ride the tractor!

No Fusion, No Confusion. Lou Donaldson