Avril (French musician)

Fred Avril Magnon (born 1974) is a French composer based in Montmartre, Paris. As a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, he won international praise for two albums[1] that showed a strong link with cinema.

Biography

Avril got his start in film music in 2008 with Hong-Kong acclaimed director Johnnie To. His quasi-musical Man Jeuk's soundtrack was nominated at both the Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, the film being a box-office hit in China. Fred Avril won the Stockholm Music Award with Swedish film Sound of Noise (Semaine de la critique, Cannes) about "sonic bombing". He then composed the score for the indie feature "The Lifeguard" (Liz W. Garcia) with Kristen Bell, that premiered in Sundance.

Other projects featured singers Mick Harvey (former member of the Bad Seeds) and late Christophe (singer). He co-composed with Marianne Elise the song in French box-office success Connasse, Princesse des cœurs introducing Camille Cottin.

In 2018, he composed the main theme for The Hook Up Plan. The music was uploaded by fans on YouTube and was streamed more than 5 million times throughout the world before being released by Bertelsmann Music Group.[2] Avril also writes orchestral music, such as I Am Not an Easy Man. He won the Emile Award for Best Soundtrack for an Animated Series with adult manga series Lastman.

Cinema and series

Discography

Personal albums
  • Now It's Spring (2000) (F Com)
  • That Horse Must Be Starving (2002) (F Com)
  • Members Only (2004) (F Com)

Original soundtracks
  • Sparrow (CD, Naive 2008)
  • Sound of Noise (CD, Hybris, 2010)
  • Les Bêtises Cine Music Club (2014)
  • Connasse, Princesse des Coeurs (CD, Milan, 2015)
  • Lastman (Vinyl, Everybody On Deck, 2017) (sold out)
  • I Am Not an Easy Man (Plaza Mayor, 2018)
  • Pearl (Plaza Mayor, 2019)
  • Qui m'aime me suive (Plaza Mayor, 2019)
  • Plan Coeur (BMG US, 2019)

Other records
  • Hollywood mon amour (« This Is Not America » cover featuring Juliette Lewis) (PIAS 2008)
  • Nouvelle Vague Album Bande à part arrangement and production (Peacefrog 2006)
  • Temposhark Invisible Ink Remix (Paper and Glue 2005)
  • Olga Kouklaki, I U Need arrangement and production (EMI 2011)
  • Stephan Eicher, L'Envolée composition and production p(Barclay/Universal, 2012)

Distinctions

References
  1. "Avril - Members Only · Album Review ⟋ RA". Resident Advisor. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  2. Basirico, Benoit. "Interview B.O : Fred Avril, de la comédie LARGUÉES au premier film PEARL en passant par Netflix (PLAN COEUR)". www.cinezik.org. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  3. "ABOUT | Fred Avril". Archived from the original on 2020-01-04. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  4. "Les lauréats du prix Constantin sont . . . - Liste de 100 albums - SensCritique". www.senscritique.com. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  5. "Sound of Noise (2010) - SFdb". Retrieved 2021-12-15.
  6. "Nominees & Winners 2017". European Animation Awards | Emile Awards. Archived from the original on 2020-01-02. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
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