PHILIPPE GRANCHER

Philippe Grancher biography
French composer, keyboardist and guitarist Philippe GRANCHER is a musician those familiar with the French music scene most likely will connect with blues, as he's been a rather succesful purveyor of that kind of music for the last couple of decades. But this veteran musician, born in 1956, first honed his skills on a rather different kind of music.

In his late teens Grancher became fascinated with the, at the time, state of the art synthesizers. And his experiments with these instruments ultimately lead to the recording and release of a full length album, 3000 Miles Away. Initially issued on vinyl LP in 1977, later reissued on CD by Italian label Mellow Records in 2005. Grancher would later cooperate with noted art rock musicians Cyrille Verdeaux and Didier Lockwood, but did not revisit this type of music himself prior to his discovery and subsequent career as a blues man.