I have started to play guitar at the same time the "Fab Four" were releasing an album about the band of the lonely heart's club of a mysterious sergeant. But obviously I did not hear about that world changing album until a few years later. In the early seventies I started to listen to The Beatles but also a lot of classical music.

I was also learning and playing some guitar with friends at school. One of them, particularly talented, showed me an album with a  mysterious yellow sleeve. He told me "That is real music. Not the kind of old boring stuff you are listening to". I didn't pay particular attention to the music or to the band's name.

It took me a few more years before "A Trick of the Tail" made me discover Genesis... and I became a music fan. Getting to know all of their  work (including "Selling England by the Pound"... the mysterious yellow sleeve) took me a few more months before I explored the wider Progressive Rock scene. (This was 76-77, so the end of their glorious days).

Meanwhile I was discovering that even playing some basic guitar somewhat helped with girls. And that singing was actually even more efficient. So I kept on playing and singing while starting my Electronic Engineer studies at university. That brought me to a "highlight" of my musical career when I could perform on stage for two years in a row in front of a few hundred people in my faculty's "Revue".

I had been writing lyrics and a few part of songs for a few years. The public encouragement gave me the commitment to actually properly play and record a few tracks with my guitar. At least I had been true the creative process once.

But the music I liked was mainly synth driven (Genesis, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP...). So when I started to work I quickly bought myself a SH-101, then I drum box, a MC-202, a Juno 106, a ... It never really stopped. But although I could spend quite some time playing with these toys (and some money buying them), the music wasn't really what I wanted it to be. (I am ashamed to say that one of the obvious reason must have been that I never found interesting to buy myself a reverb or delay unit... what are synths without that ???)

Meanwhile I had tried a few Japanese "arrangers" but that kind of pre-canned and stereotypical "clichés" were really turning me off. Then came VA's. I read an article in September 1999's PlayRecord (a French publication). It compared the merits of glorious machines from mysterious brands called Waldorf, Access, Clavia and ...Novation. One machine was getting much of their praises. I went into my local music shop and asked to try the big blue box with its myriad of red led. And there it was ! Instant gratification! Rythms, bass, pads, leads, effects... all pre-arranged and easy to use but also fully editable and tweakable.

The SuperNova had arrived in my life. Inspiration started to flow and I decided to release music under the name of Azure Feast.