Volapuk
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Volapük is an avant-garde
Avant-garde music
Avant-garde music is a term used to characterize music which is thought to be ahead of its time, i.e. containing innovative elements or fusing different genres....

 band created by the French drummer Guigou Chenevier. The membership of the band is:
  • Guigou Chenevier - Drums, Marimba, Voices, Clavier, Sanza
  • Takumi Fukushima - Violin
  • Guillaume Saurel - Flute, Engineer, Violoncello, Mixing
  • Michel Mandel - Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass), Taragat


The band's style draws from a number of Eurasia
Eurasia
Eurasia is a continent or supercontinent comprising the traditional continents of Europe and Asia ; covering about 52,990,000 km2 or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres...

n ethnic musical traditions, from Spain to the Balkans to Mongolia. Unlike other avant-garde bands that rely on the use of nonmusical sounds, Volapük's music retains more of their folk music roots. Volapük
Volapük
Volapük is a constructed language, created in 1879–1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Roman Catholic priest in Baden, Germany. Schleyer felt that God had told him in a dream to create an international language. Volapük conventions took place in 1884 , 1887 and 1889 . The first two conventions used...

 is the name of an artificial language, which also draws its form from multiple language sources.

In the 1970s the drummer Guigou Chenevier played in the Etron Fou Leloublan
Etron Fou Leloublan
Etron Fou Leloublan, also known as EFL, were a French avant-rock band founded in 1973 by actor and saxophonist Chris Chanet. They recorded five studio albums between 1976 and 1985, and released a live album, En Public Aux Etats-Unis d'Amérique recorded during a tour of the United States in 1979...

 band, and was part of the Rock in Opposition
Rock in Opposition
Rock in Opposition or RIO was a movement representing a collective of progressive bands in the late 1970s united in their opposition to the music industry that refused to recognise their music...

movement of like-minded musicians who were actively ignored by mainstream record labels and promoters. In a certain sense, one could say Volapük continues the Rock in Opposition movement. They have moved toward modern classical music of the minimalist school scrapping electric instruments altogether.

They have released five albums so far:
  • 1997 - Le Feu Du Tigre
  • 1997 - Slang!
  • 2000 - Polyglöt
  • 2000 - Pükapok (Live album)
  • 2003 - Where Is Tamashii?

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