Influenced by P Rondat, C Achard, C Godin, G Howe, R Thal, M
Eklundh, Vai, Scoffield, Jean created
his first ins
trumental 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. T
he band have done many concerts in
France, opening for Jeff Kollman Band,
Christophe Go
din, 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).
At last , he is the teaching director
of the french music school "Arema Rock et Chanson"
(
www.rocketchanson.com ) in Talence(33) and give masterclasses wherever
people want him.
Discography
Unknown Parameter Value (2009)
Line up:
Jean
Fontanille: Guitars
Mike Terrana: drums
Ivan Rougny: bass
