# Mat Camison

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{{Short description|French keyboardist and electronic musician}}{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Mathias Camison
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1941|8|5}}
| birth_place       = [Algiers](/source/Algiers), [Algeria](/source/Algeria)
| genre             = Library music, electronic, pop, disco, funk
| occupation        = Keyboardist, composer, producer
| instrument        = Keyboards, synthesizer
| years_active      = 1950s–present
| associated_acts   = The Peppers, Arpadys, Résonance, V.I.P. Connection, Pierre-Alain Dahan, Pierre Bachelet
}}

'''Mathias Camison''' (born 5 August 1941) is a French [keyboard](/source/Musical_keyboard)ist and [electronic music](/source/electronic_music)ian, responsible for many [library](/source/library_music) and [pop](/source/pop_music) recordings, especially during the 1970s.

Born in [Algiers](/source/Algiers), [Algeria](/source/Algeria), Camison moved to France in 1955 and in the late 1950s formed his first group, Les Français, with Jacky Rault on drums and Jacky Hythier on bass, later joined by guitarist Ted Tunnicliffe of the Krewkats, recently arrived from Germany.  The group backed many of the leading French pop musicians of the time, primarily [France Gall](/source/France_Gall) at the start of her career, and recorded two [EP](/source/Extended_play)s for [Columbia Records](/source/Columbia_Records) in 1964, one featuring the [Lead Belly](/source/Lead_Belly) song "[Goodnight Irene](/source/Goodnight_Irene)" and the second comprising [instrumental](/source/instrumental)s including Camison's composition "Suspenses".<ref name=camison>[http://mat-camison.over-blog.com/  "Mat Camison, A Taste Of Music"]. Retrieved 2 December 2022</ref>

He became a leading [session musician](/source/session_musician) in Paris. In 1972, he recorded a version of the instrumental "[Popcorn](/source/Popcorn_(instrumental))", under the name '''Mister K - The Synthesiser''', and also an album, ''Pop-Arp''. The following year, he fronted the group [The Peppers](/source/The_Peppers), who had an international hit with the single "Pepper Box".  The composition of the song was credited to "Arpadys", a pseudonym used by Camison with his writing partner, drummer {{interlanguage link|Pierre-Alain Dahan|fr}}. Camison and Dahan were responsible for much French instrumental and [library music](/source/library_music) of the period for the Tele Music label, and for the disco / [funk](/source/funk) single "Please Love Me Again" / "West Coast Drive” credited to V.I.P. Connection.<ref name=camison/><ref>[https://www.waxpoetics.com/rediscovery/vip-connection-west-coast-drive/  V.I.P. Connection, "West Coast Drive", ''WaxPoetics'']. Retrieved 2 December 2022</ref>

Camison also continued as a session musician working with such recording artists as [Nino Ferrer](/source/Nino_Ferrer), [Richard Anthony](/source/Richard_Anthony_(singer)), [Serge Lama](/source/Serge_Lama), [Claude François](/source/Claude_Fran%C3%A7ois), [Dalida](/source/Dalida), and [Sheila](/source/Sheila_(French_singer)).  In the mid-1970s, he formed the [disco](/source/disco_music) studio group Résonance with singer and composer [Pierre Bachelet](/source/Pierre_Bachelet). He has also written extensively for film and theatre productions.<ref name=camison/>

==References==
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==External links==
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