Arthur Mountaniol is Los Angeles-based rock musician extraordinaire: singer/songwriter, composer, electric guitar virtuoso, multi-instrumentalist, album cover designer and filmmaker. A former leader of the Russian legendary avant-garde rock band “The Moon Pierrot” (Лунный Пьеро, 1985-1992).

Started as a solo artist in 1992 in Hamburg (Germany), but in 1998 immigrated to the U.S. where he now lives in Hollywood, CA. He is a prolific recording artist with over 15 solo works since 1998. Best known for his diverse vocal styles, Asian throat singing, innovative guitar work, unique vision and fearless artistic nature for which he’s been called a Mad Maestro and the Salvador Dali of Rock. However, alongside his bizarre experiments, he’s also got a whole lot of great songs that make him the Avant-Gardist with a soul.


In 2008 he also became a filmmaker and made quite a few short films and music videos that were official entries in Fantasia Film Festival, Toronto After Dark and others. His short film "Forbidden Fruit Carnival" was an official selection for Shockfest of Hollywood 2010, that premiered at Charlie Chaplin's Theater (Raleigh Studios) on November 12th, 2010.

His new music video "Serpent Street" has just been accepted to the Queen City Film Festival 2014. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.