Jean Fontanille

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Influenced by P Rondat, C Achard, C Godin, G Howe, R Thal, M Eklundh, Vai, Scoffield, Jean created
his first instrumental band, "Fantastic(s)3", with Pascal Biwandu on drums and Wilfried Widmann on
bass. The first album was recorded during summer 2005 and distibued by french label Acropole
Records. The band have done many concerts in France, opening for Jeff Kollman Band,
Christophe Godin, Plug'in Band and Parralaxe, also played in many festivals and performed some
master classes.

Jean recorded 2 years ago a guitar teaching video and he writes guitar lessons for the french web
magazine "Guitare Live". Jean appears in video every month in Llaguitare.com and also take part
in the best french guitar magazine "GuitareXtem".

He also took part in the "fusion project" (Greatwinds/Musea) created by Mel Gaynor, Stephane
Deriau-Reine and Jan-Olof Strandberg, recording some rythm and solo guitar parts. In 2009 he
recorded his new instrumental album titled "Unknown Parameter Value" with Mike Terrana on
Drums and Ivan Rougny on bass guitar (available on www.guitareuroshop.com). Read more about Jean Fontanille on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Gear used by Jean Fontanille

Jean Fontanille electric guitars

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