Joël Fajerman, born in 1948 in Paris, is a French musician and composer. He began playing piano at five years old and guitar at 13. After completing school at 17, Fajerman joined various rock groups and toured throughout the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978, he acquired a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 synthesizer and composed his initial pieces in Japan, leading to his debut album, Racines synthétiques (1978), created with Jan Yrssen. Fajerman achieved recognition for composing the music to the documentary series L'Aventure des plantes, released as an album in 1981, which compiled material from Racines synthétiques, Prisme (1979), Painted Desert (1980), and Azimuts (1981) alongside a new title theme. His later album releases include Turbulences (1983), Electric Ice (1985) with Pierre Porte, Regards (1989), and Les Inventions de la vie (1991).
