Olivier Manchion

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Olivier Manchion (Pfe), 2005

Olivier Manchion (1971 - ) is a musician born in Suresnes, near Paris.
In 1987 he started to perform on bass guitar together with Amaury Cambuzat.

They founded together Ulan Bator in 1993. They start to release albums in 1995 on Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier label. From 1995 to 1998 their studio recording is based in a disused chalkmine in Bougival ("Cradle of Impressionism"), near Paris

In 1996 meets Jean_Hervé Péron and starts immediately a long friendship and collaboration with Faust. The first musical meeting being entitled (and released later) as Collectif Met(z). Thenafter, in 1997, a french/swiss tour as Faust including Ulan Bator.
From 1995 to 1998, Olivier performs several times with Sleaze Art, a 30 guitars collective by Kasper T. Toeplitz. Among others, "Zora Mudd" performances at la Fondation Cartier (1995, Paris-fr) and Macba (1996, Barcelona-sp), Musique Action festival (1998, Nancy-fr)

During the summer 1998, contributes to some sessions for "Only Chaos Is Real" by Richard Pinhas's Heldon, together with Maurice Dantec, Norman Spinrad, Antoine and Bernard Paganotti (Magma). Also started the ORA project together with Cambuzat and Ron Anderson

In 2000 is released one of the most popular Ulan Bator album, "Ego:Echo" (produced by Michael Gira), followed in 2002 by "OK:KO", a collection of "Ego:Echo" demo sessions and live recordings.

In 2001 (september), Olivier left Ulan Bator and founded Permanent Fatal Error.
He recorded "Law Speed", first PFE album, in 2003 (released in 2004)

In 2003 and 2004 performed with Damo Suzuki's Network in France and Italy. Released "Hollyaris" from a Paris performance

Since 2005, he's back into Ulan Bator. In the same year he's invited by Werner "Zappi" Diermaier and Jean-Hervé Péron to join again Faust. They toured in the Uk, France.... ("... In Autumn" release)

Among his other projects : Bias! (with Xabier Iriondo), French Doctors (a collective of french improvisers)...