Olivier Manchion
Olivier Manchion is a French musician.
Manchion was born in Suresnes, near Paris. In 1987, he started to perform on bass guitar with Amaury Cambuzat. They founded Ulan Bator in 1993. They released albums in 1995 on Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier label. From 1995 to 1998, their studio recording was based in a disused chalk mine in Bougival, near Paris. In 1996 meets Jean-Hervé Péron and immediately starts a long friendship and collaboration with Faust. The first musical meeting was entitled as "Collectif Met." After that, in 1997, a French/Swiss tour as "Faust including Ulan Bator". From 1995 to 1998, Olivier performed several times with Sleaze Art, a 30 guitars collective by Kasper T. Toeplitz. Among others, "Zora Mudd" performances at la Fondation Cartier, Macba, and Musique Action festival. During the summer of 1998, I contributed to some sessions for "Only Chaos Is Real" by Richard Pinhas's Heldon, together with Maurice Dantec, Norman Spinrad, Antoine, and Bernard Paganotti. They also started the ORA project with Cambuzat and Ron Anderson. In 2000, one of the most popular Ulan Bator albums, "Ego: Echo", followed in 2002 by "OK: KO", a collection of "Ego: Echo" demo sessions and live recordings.
In 2001, Olivier left Ulan Bator and founded Permanent Fatal Error. He recorded "Law Speed", the first PFE album, in 2003. In 2003 and 2004, he performed with Damo Suzuki's Network in France and Italy. He released "Hollyaris" from a Paris performance. In 2005, he was invited by Werner "Zappi" Diermaier and Jean-Hervé Péron to join Faust and Amaury Cambuzat again. They toured together in the Uk and France in 2005/06. From the summer of 2005 to the spring of 2007, he was back in Ulan Bator and toured Italy, France, and Slovenia. During the same period, he performed as Cargo Culte in a duo with Cambuzat. Among his other projects: Bias!, French Doctors. Also, he's been the artistic producer for Osaka Bondage, Viclarsen, and Lule Kaine, and some of his 'Pfe' recordings were used as arrangements on "Home is where the studio is" by That Summer.
In late 2007, he collaborated with the Italian painter Simone Pellegrini.
Since 2001, he has been living in Reggio Emilia. 2012, he founded the supergroup Arzân with local independent musicians from Reggio. Arzân means from Reggio in the local dialect.
Main discography
Permanent Fatal Error- Deaf Sun/Deaf Blues 2015 album, cd
- Law Speed 2004 album, cd
- Au chevet des blessés 2012 album, LP
- Ulaanbaatar 2007 album unreleased material 1993–98, cd
- OK:KO 2002 album live/demo, cd
- Echo#5 2000, 45rpm
- Ego:Echo 2000 album, cd
- D-Construction remixes, 1999, cd
- Polaire 1997 compilation, cd
- Vegetale 1997 album, cd
- Ursula Minor 1996, 45rpm
- 2 Degrees 1996 ep, cd
- Ulan Bator s/t 1995 album, cd
- Trial and Error 2007, DVD
- ... In Autumn 2007, live, 3 cds box + 1 DVD
- Collectif Met(z) 2005, live/studio 3 cds box
- Connections 2005 DVD
- Impressions 2005 DVD
- Hollyaris 2005 live, 2 cds
- s/t 2005, ep, cd3
- Only Chaos is Real 2001, 2 cds