Bio

Denis Frajerman started out as a composer in the French experimental band PALO ALTO.
With a strong interest in literature and orality as a musician, he collaborates regularly with storytellers and writers for radio sessions, oratorios, and records.
Strongly linked to the work of Antoine Volodine, his first solo album, Les Suites Volodine (Noise Musem/Naïve, 1999), was directly influenced by Volodine’s writings. Volodine and Frajerman share a taste for haunting atmospheres, black humor and witchcraft.
The pair have also worked on creations: Des Anges Mineurs, a post-exotic oratorio composed for six musicians, a singer, a narrator, a dancer and a videographer (La Cigale, 2000), and Vociférations, a cantopera for eleven musicians, commissioned by France Culture’s Radiophonic Creation Workshops (2004). The broadcasting on Radio France of this last work was followed by a residency at the Lieu Unique, the National Theatre of Nantes, for the concert version.
A composer of soundtracks for contemporary dance, object theater, animation, short films, and documentaries, he has a strong interest in Arab and Balkan rhythms and melodies.

SOLO ALBUMS

Trio Frajerman, Schild, Sarrasy, Paysages du Temps, Klanggalerie) 2025
Tiphaine (Klanggalerie) 2022
Variations Volodine, coffret 6Cds, and 20 poems  in prose from Antoine Volodine ( La Volte) 2022
Macau Peplum (Reissue) (Klanggalerie) 2020
Wastelands / Lawrence Of Arabia (Klanggalerie) 2019
Herbes et Golem (E-Klageto) 2018
Rivières de la nuit (Douzième lune) 2017
Vociférations avec Antoine Volodine (France Culture / Le Cluricaun) 2008

Frâjerman String Quartet (Linoleum) 2004
Le Souffle du Vide (archives 92-95, Halte aux Records) 2003
Macau Peplum (Noise Museum/Naïve) 2000

Le Civisme en chanson (Tremplin théâtre) 1999
Fasmes (Noise Museum/Naïve) 1999

Les Suites Volodine (Noise Museum/Naïve) 1998
Mandibules (Organic) 1997
Le Nom des arbres (Organic) 1997
Drosophiles (Prikosnovenie) 1995

with THE BLIZZARD SOW :
Foggy songs for the first periods (Exglegeto) 2021
Baagou music (Cynfeirdd) 2004

with PALO ALTO :
(fifteen album beetween 1989 and 2017)