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Gambeat
Gambeat is credited on 30 releases across 18 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1999–2017 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
30
Pressings credited
18
Albums
3
Decades active
36
In collections
Biography
Gambeat is the stage name of Jean Michel Dercourt, a French bass guitarist and DJ, best known for his musical collaboration with Manu Chao. As a member of the Parisian group French Lovers, Gambeat travelled with Manu Chao and his band Mano Negra during their famous rail tour through civil war-racked Colombia in the early 1990s. The tour was later commemorated in Ramon Chao's book The Train of Ice and Fire. After Mano Negra was disbanded and a new band Radio Bemba founded by Manu Chao, Gambeat became one of its integral members alongside Madjid Fahem. Thanks to his distinctive appearance and high-energy playing, Gambeat was one of the most charismatic presences at the band's live performances; he often appeared shirtless on stage, his burly torso heavily tattooed, playing the double bass guitar, which he had named (according to Ramon Chao) "Madame Dercourt".
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
30 releases · 18 albums · active 1999–2017
- Performance · 28
- Production · 10
- Other credits · 3
- Mastering · 1
- Engineering · 1
Studios: Katarain Estudio · Kontrakalea House · Kasba Studio · Tactikollectif Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Muyayo Rif
- Manu Chao
- Color Humano (2)
- Fermin Muguruza
- La Kinky Beat
- Che Sudaka
- Amparanoïa
- Negu Gorriak
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