Didier Malherbe

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previous bands include: RAGA BLUES TRIO. DAEVID ALLEN'S GONG. STEVE HILLAGE. RAVI SHANKAR. KEVIN AYRES. GILLI SMITH. SHORTWAVE. BRIGITTE FONTAINE. SATELLIT CAFE. LE CIRQUE DU SOLEIL. HADOUK TRIO

selected discography:

Didier Malherbe/Hadouk Trio: FETISH.

ZEFF.

FLUVIUS.

HADOUK.

SHAMANIMAL.

LIVE Á FIP.

Gong: CAMEMBERT ELECTRIQUE.

FLYING TEAPOT.

ANGEL'S EGG.

YOU.

Raga Blues Trio: MORNING CALM.

Ravi Shankar: CHAPPAQUA.

Whatevershebringswesing: KEVIN AYRES.

Fish Rising: STEVE HILLAGE.

French Corazon: BRIGITTE FONTAINE.

Short Wave: P.MILLER/H.HOPPER/P.PYLE.

1492 Conquest of Paradise: VANGELIS.

7 Year Itch: PIP PYLE.

Eat Me Baby I'm a Jelly Bean: DAEVID ALLEN.

Faton Bloom: CRYONIC MADRIGAL.

Didier Malherbe studied classical alto and tenor saxophone as a teenager in Paris and, in the early sixties, as well as studying classical flute in France, learnt the bamboo flute in India. Later that decade, Didier teamed up with  Daevid Allen - post Soft Machine - to form Gong where he acquired the nickname Bloomdido Bad de Grass; a testament to his admiration for Charlie Parker combined with a comic translation of his name. After taking off first in Deya, Gong performed at the first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1971 and their debut album, Camembert Electrique, reached the UK charts. Gong then went on to produce the celebrated Radio Gnome trilogy ('Flying Teapot', 'Angel's Egg' and 'You'). After Daevid Allen left Gong in 1975, Didier formed line ups along with Mike Howlett, Steve Hillage and, of course, Pierre Moerlen until Didier also left the band in 1978 to set up his five piece Bloom. During the eighties Didier recorded and toured with many big names including Brigitte Fontaine and Pierre Bensusan with whom he toured Japan and the U.S. respectively and in 1989 he teamed up again with Daevid Allen to create Gongmaison. The nineties saw Didier concentrate more on his solo career, in particular with the release of 'Fetish' and it was also around this time that he first collaborated with Phil Miller - along with Hugh Hopper and Pip Pyle -  as part of Short Wave. By this time Didier had collected and mastered numerous cultural instruments including, amongst many others, the double-reeded Armenian Doudouk, the kora, the bolong and the Ukranian double flute; in fact, the band name 'Hadouk' comes from Loy Ehrlich's 'Ha' jouj, a three stringed Moroccan bass and Didier's own Dou'douk'. More recently Didier has continued recording and performing with the Hadouk Trio as well as working on a collection of sonnets and appearing on 'Conspiracy Theories' where Miller wrote the tracks '5ths and 7ths', 'Crackpot', 'Find Press Enter' and 'Freudian Triode' with him particularly in mind.