Biography
1964年仏パリ生まれ。 ニューヨークを経て現在は沖縄在住。
10代から音楽活動をはじめ、RadioやTVドキュメンタリー の音楽制作活動にかかわる。
ギターエフェクトを駆使し、ハウスやアンビエント、アフリカンダンス ミュージックとの
コラボレーションを行う。
現在の音楽活動として、ミキシング（沖縄民謡など）、DJ、ギ ターエフェクトを用いたライブ、
楽曲制作など多岐にわたる。
彼がもっともリスペクトするアーティストは米国人トランぺッター 「Jon Hassell」
Paul Mahouxの多彩なエフェクトを駆使した即興ライブはギターの表現を越え、
その可能性を無限に広げている。
ミュージシャンからも、オーディエンスからも、
神秘的とも、宇宙的とも、瞑想的とも例えられる高い評価を得ている。
Paul Mahoux was born in Paris, France in 1964. After a few years in New York City,
he settled in Okinawa in 2002.
Into music since teenage years, he has a background of composing music for radio and tv
documentaries, playing guitar in all kinds of bands, from freaked out
jam sessions to African dance music, as well as with house or ambient DJs.
His musical activities are now remixing (including some Okinawan traditional music),
DJing, playing ambient or funky live looping sets on guitar and, of course, spending countless hours
at home producing tracks or just exploring the endless world of sound.
His most admired musician is the amazing American trumpeter, pioneer and visionary Jon Hassell.
Paul Mahoux's live looping improvisation sets on guitar can be described like this: how a very plain guitar
sound will sound different just by being repeated and looped in real time,
then mixed and stacked with more guitar, looped with the same process.
The result is some very complex network of guitar stratas, with the earlier loops fading away subliminally as more guitar loops are being inserted.
It then becomes a base for more live playing on top of it, and can also be manipulated in real time, muted,
filtered, etc... in a more "turntablism" approach. This is great fun, for the performer
and for the audience, and works very well for many styles: mysterious ambient,
spacey funk, obsessive house.
Paul Mahoux Official Website
http://www.paulmahoux.com/
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