Theo Hakola

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.

Novels

• The Snake Pit, to be 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

THEO HAKOLA:

• I FRY MINE IN BUTTER! – (Wobbly Ashes Records/Médiapop Records) an all covers album in CD and double vinyl formats.
• 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 (Barclay/Polygram-France/Beggars Banquet-World):

• WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS? - 1991
• WOKE UP THIS MORNING - 1989
• LOVE, WALTZES AND ANARCHY - 1987
• FAT TUESDAY - 1986
• HARD WORDS FROM A SOFT MOUTH – 1985

with ORCHESTRE ROUGE (RCA-France):

• MORE PASSION FODDER - 1983
• YELLOW LAUGHTER – 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

• "American Tabloid," (James Ellroy) composer/musician – MC93-Bobigny – 20013. Directed by Nicolas Bigards.
• "Rakia," scored reading based on the novel, with Dominique Reymond), 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," scored reading based on La Valse des affluents, author, director, 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/director/performer... 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’" scored reading based on the novel, author, director, composer/musician... Manosque, Poitiers – 2004, and Lyon – 2005.
• "Une Dizaine de morts," (based on the works of Michael Ondaatje), adapter-author, director, composer/musician... Lyon, Manosque – 2003, Paris, Lille – 2004
• "La Chanson du Zorro andalou" – author, actor, 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 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: 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...