Theo Hakola is a singer/songwriter/musician and novelist born (1954) and raised in Spokane, Washington USA and presently living in Paris, France. He is of Finnish and Swedish descent.

Contents

• Theo hakola ilmarinen s lament
• Theo Hakola CHRE MAMAN je suis mort Paris
• Novels
• Music
• solo
• with Passion Fodder
• with Orchestre Rouge
• Production
• Film Music
• Theatre
• RadioJournalism
• Education
• Other Work
• References

Novels

The Snake Pit, published in French translation by Actes Sud (September 2016) as Idaho Babylone

Rakia, published in French translation by Éditions Intervalles (2011)

The Blood of Souls, published in French translation as Le Sang des âmes by Éditions Intervalles (2008)

Blood Streams, published in French translation as La Valse des Affluents by Le Serpent à Plumes (2003) and in Finnish by WSOY (2005)

The Way of Blood, published in French translation as La Route du Sang by Le Serpent à Plumes (2001) and in Finnish by WSOY (2002)

Music

Albums

solo

I Fry Mine in Butter (Wobbly Ashes Records/Médiapop Records, 2016)

This Land is Not Your Land (Wobbly Ashes Records/Disques du 7e ciel, 2012)

Drunk Women and Sexual Water (Wobbly Ashes Records/Anticraft, 2007)

La Chanson du Zorro Andalou (Grosse Rose/Kerig, 2000)

Overflow (Grosse Rose/Musidisc, 1997)

The Confession (Absinthe/Bondage-France, 1995)

Hunger of a Thin Man (Bondage-France, 1994)

with Passion Fodder

What Fresh Hell is This? (Barclay/Polygram-France/Beggars Banquet-World, 1991)

Woke Up This Morning (Barclay/Polygram-France/Beggars Banquet-World, 1989)

Love, Waltzes and Anarchy (Barclay/Polygram-France/Beggars Banquet-World, 1987)

Fat Tuesday (Barclay/Polygram-France/Beggars Banquet-World, 1986)

Hard Words from a Soft Mouth (Barclay/Polygram-France/Beggars Banquet-World, 1985)

with Orchestre Rouge

More Passion Fodder (RCA-France, 1983)

Yellow Laughter' (RCA-France, 1982)

Production

Noir Désir - "Où veux-tu que je r'garde ?" (Barclay/Polygram-France) –1987

E.V. - "Reuz" (Lola Label/Polygram France) – 1994

Les Hurleurs - "Bazar" (Barclay/Universal) – 1996

Les Malpolis - "La Fin du retour de la chanson" (Willing/Mosaic Music) – 2005

Gecko Palace – "Tout va si bien" (New Track Music) – 2008

Film Music

"Babel metropolite," directed by Beajena Borakova – 1988

"Peaux de vaches," dir. Patricia Mazuy – 1989

"Perpetua," dir. Claudia Neubern – 1999

"La Fille préférée," dir. Lou Jeunet – 1999

"Les Petites Mains," dir. Lou Jeunet – 2001

"The wind", dir. Victor Söjström (ciné-concert) - 2007

"La Vallée de larmes," dir. Agathe Dronne – 2011

"Au bonheur des dames", dir. Julien Duvivier (ciné-concert) - 2013

Theatre

"Idaho Babylone," (Theo Hakola) scored reading based on the novel, with Dominique Reymond, Bénédicte Villain and Simon Texier; author/composer/musician... Grenoble, Frontignan – 2017

"American Tabloid," (James Ellroy) composer/musician – MC93-Bobigny – 20013. Directed by Nicolas Bigards.

"Rakia," (Theo Hakola) scored reading based on the novel, with Dominique Reymond; author/composer/musician... Dijon – 2013

"Sur la route," scored reading based on Kerouac’s On The Road, composer/musician... Manosque, Toulouse, Grenoble, Caen, Vendôme, Vincennes, Rennes – 2012-2015...

"La Ballade de Carson Clay," (Theo Hakola) scored reading based on La Valse des affluents, author/composer/musician... Grenoble, Bobigny – 2011-2015

"L'Invention du monde," (Olivier Rolin) – composer/musician – at the MC93-Bobigny – 2010. Directed by Michel Deutsch.

"Chroniques du bord de scène - Hello America," 2009/10, followed by "USA, d'après Dos Passos" – composer/musician/actor – at the MC93-Bobigny – 2009/10. Directed by Nicolas Bigards.

"Le Chant des âmes," scored reading based on Le Sang des âmes, author/composer/musician... Finnish Cultural Center, Paris – 2009.

"La Thébaïde" (Racine) – composer/musician, Centre dramatique national de Montreuil and the Atelier du Rhin in Colmar – October/Novembre 2007. Directed by Sandrine Lanno.

"Ellen Foster" (Kaye Gibbons) – composer/musician and translator in Dijon (Festival Frictions) and Lille (l’Aéronef) – 2002 then, as co-director, Bagnolet (l’Échangeur) and Lyon (Théâtre de la Renaissance) – 2005.

"Les Chansons de ‘La Valse des affluents’" (Theo Hakola) scored reading based on the novel, author/composer/musician... Manosque, Poitiers – 2004, and Lyon – 2005.

"Une Dizaine de morts," (based on the works of Michael Ondaatje), adapter-author/composer/musician... Lyon, Manosque – 2003, Paris, Lille – 2004

"La Chanson du Zorro andalou" (Theo Hakola) – author/actor/composer/director, 1999–2000, Rennes, Lille, Paris...

"Mahagonny" (Brecht/Weill) – actor (Alaskawolf Joe), Paris and on tour in France... – 1983 Directed by Hans-Peter Cloos.

Radio/Journalism

D.J./producer on France-Inter, Radio Monte Carlo (RMC Côte d'Azur), France Culture, Radio Nova and Radio Cité 96.

Publication of articles on European culture and politics in In These Times and in Cinéaste (USA) and in La Règle du jeu , Libération, Actuel, Globe, Les Inrockuptibles... (France).

Education

The London School of Economics and Political Science – 1975/76

B.A. in Political History – Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio – 1977

Other Work

Film actor: (agent: Sophie Barrois/Agence Oz ) Pictures, Florent Quint (2011), Suerte, Jacques Séchaud (2010); The Portuguese Man O' War, Lauren Makael (2008); Une Famille parfaite, Pierre Trividic (2006); Ma Mère, Christophe Honoré (2004); La Fille préférée, Lou Jeunet (1999)...

Director: “Reliefs” fiction workshop – Saint-Priest (Lyon), 2005 “La parole et les cris” lyrics workshop – Nevers, 1998–1999

Translator: Composition and Non-composition by Jacques Lucan (PPUR-2012) as well as numerous film scripts, plays, poems, songs and articles...

Organizational Secretary: The US Committee for a Democratic Spain, New York – 1975

Instructor: “The Spanish Civil War,” Antioch College, Ohio – 1974 “Photography,” (assistant to Tony Conrad) Antioch College, Ohio – 1974

Sound, lights, programming: Tramps Club, New York – 1977/78

English teacher, photographer, rewriter, waiter...