Volapük (band)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (July 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Volapük concerting in Divadlo 29 in Pardubice, Czech Republic.

Volapük was a French avant-garde band created in 1993 by the drummer , along with Michel Mandel and Guillaume Saurel. In the 1970s, Chenevier was a member of Etron Fou Leloublan, a band that was part of the Rock in Opposition movement. Takumi Fukushima became a later addition to the group, playing on Polyglöt which was released in 2000. Volapük announced their breakup in 2010.^[1]

The band's style draws from a number of Eurasian ethnic musical traditions, from Spain to the Balkans to Mongolia. Unlike other avant-garde bands that rely on the use of non-musical sounds, Volapük's music retains more of their folk music roots. Volapük is the name of an artificial language, which also draws its form from multiple language sources.

Members[]

• Guigou Chenevier – drums, marimba, voices, clavier, sanza
• Takumi Fukushima – violin
• Guillaume Saurel – flute, engineer, violoncello, mixing
• Michel Mandel – clarinet, bass clarinet, taragat

Discography[]

• 1997 – Le Feu Du Tigre
• 1997 – Slang!
• 2000 – Polyglöt
• 2000 – Pükapok (Live album)
• 2003 – Where Is Tamashii?

References[]

External links[]

• Biography

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Volapük (band).

This article about a French band or other musical ensemble is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t