The character is unique. Certainly offbeat, it surprises and clashes in the landscape. His look is reminiscent of the Buffalo Bill of a futuristic western, a leather and rock Gandalf, a half Zappa half Corto Maltese SF adventurer or a lost neo-druid in the 21st century ... What else can be said to locate this friendly oddball who 'one would think straight out of "Back to the Future", except that he is - above all - author, composer, performer, Aries ascendant Aries, and that he also plays, among other instruments, of self-mockery and excess.

Certainly offbeat, Chardeau is unlike anyone. Captain Nemo of an unlikely ship, for two decades he has been delivering flamboyant and powerful, rich and colorful retro-futuristic music, somewhere between Chicago, Magma, Spirit, Gotainer, Genesis (Peter Gabriel era) and Stravinsky. Baroque, rock, jazz, classical ... Chardeau draws from all sources as long as they are good. He takes us on musical journeys punctuated by stopovers at 20,000 places on the air, in a symphonic and instinctive odyssey, orchestrated in the American style, eccentric and incredibly musical.

Chardeau's career is marked by several discographic milestones: Escales (first eclectic rock opus with his group Chardo's Airlines, in 1989), Data pulsions (1999), Hors scope (released in 2005 in two versions: “Highlight” and “Instrumental session »), IntéGraal (an audio DVD produced in 5 + 1 format, but which has never been published)… Over the course of his opuses, Chardeau has always called upon the cream of French musicians (Bernard Paganotti, Basile Leroux, Claude Salmieri, Didier Malherbe, Bernard Lajudie, arranger Richard Aubert…).

He passed a new milestone in 2010 with the album Resilience recorded mainly in Los Angeles with an exceptional cast. Starting with his friends (yes, yes…) Jerry Goodman (the magical violinist of John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, who is artistic director of the album) and Robert Lamm (the keyboard, songwriter and singer from Chicago, a group of which he is a die-hard fan), benevolent angels of Chardeau Circus.

According to the principle "the friends of my friends are my friends", also lent themselves to the game the keyboard Brian Auger (Rod Steward, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin), Chris Pinnick (guitarist from Chicago), bassist Reggie Hamilton (Luther Vandross , John Mellencamp, Seal, Tina Turner), percussionist Lenny Castro (Toto, Stevie Wonder, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Quincy Jones, David Sanborn, Ricky Lee Jones, Wayne Shorter), pianist Shelton Berg (Kiss, Joe Cocker…) and drummer Curt Bisqueira (Elton John, John Fogerty, Nelly Furtado, James Taylor, Dave Steward, Joni Mitchell). On arrival, "a pure slaughter and a sound to die for", exclaim the fans.

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Enough to take more interest in the artist, the composer and his incredible musicality! Three albums were released in 2012 to discover or rediscover it. A trilogy first published in digital then edited in early 2013 on vinyl for fans, LP aficionados, curious, lovers of good music, discerning ears, nonconformists and discoverers.

Resilience 2.0> a cast of choice! The last studio album, in 2012 version refocused on ten tracks. A rare encounter to be consumed without moderation!

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Ze Best Off > an overview of Chardeau's production over two decades, through 10 titles representative of his exhilarating and eccentric music, ultimately timeless!

For Sync. > soundtrack of an imaginary film! A double album of 24 instrumental tracks (original, alternative or unpublished versions, remastered or remixed) to discover not the artist but the composer, his cinematographic writing and his sumptuous orchestrations.