Member Since: 11/17/2006
Band Members: I'm working on a project concerning the poems of Langston Hughes.
This all started 5 years ago when I was asked to participate in a Slam event in Toulouse. For the show I wanted to show the exisitence of black poems well before the arrival of Gil Scott Heron and The Last Poets.
Over the years I keep finding more poems. To help me remember them I turn them into songs and they've been accumulating like dust under the bed.
This is my spring clean and I now have about 30 songs incorporating almost 50 poems. Something must be done.
As Malcolm X wrote ;I tell sincere white people, “Work in conjunction with us - each of us working among our own kind.†Let sincere white individuals find all other white people they can who feel as they do - and let them form their own all - white groups, to work trying to convert other white people who are thinking and acting so racist. Let sincere whites go and teach non-violence to white people!
So far the demos you hear have all been played by myself, as a sort of virtual band.
Live, I'm lucky to have Agnès Doherty (http://www.cric-crac.net)my wife on the doublebass and Thomas Fiancette (http://www.myspace.com/thomasfiancette) on drums. Whilst we play Bouba and Jahco from Animaçao (http://www.numericircus.net/mario.htm)throw light and movement on the poems. The YouTube videos let you have an idea of the show we do.
Influences: I've a wide taste in music from Folk to Free, Classical to Jazz, Rock to Rap. Tops; Albert Ayler, Art Ensemble of Chicago, J.S.Bach, Count Basie, The Beatles, Iva Bittova, The Bothy Band, Britten, Johhny Cash, Don Cherry, Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Dolphy, Ellington, Elvis, Ella Fitzgerald, Jimmy Giuffre, Charlie Haden, Hendrix, Billie Holliday, Coleman Hawkins, Roland Kirk, Steve Lacy, Mike Ladd, Led Zepplin, Bob Marley, Mingus, Monk, Bill Munroe, Iggy Pop, Prince, Public Enemy, Schubert, The Velvet Underground, Sun Ra, Zappa.....
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I made this music player at MyFlashFetish .com.
A bit about myself. Composer, singer & multi-instrumentalist; violin, viola, flutes, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophones (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone), guitars & piano. I’ve worked with Akosh.S Unit, L’Attirail, Alain Baschung, Carlos Bica & Diz, Edgar de L’Est, Romain Humeau, Idir, Jasmine Bande, Meryl Leppard, Mouss & Hakim, Véronique Sanson, Sons Of The Desert, Tarace Boulba, That Petrol Emotion, La Tordue, Zebda... My work in theater & circus includes "M’aime Pas"(2004) & "Leonard...Malagomie"(2003)for the company Mauvais Esprit. "Paradise" (2005) & "Terminus"(2002) by Daniel Keene, directed by L. Lafargue. "Le Suicidé"(2004) by Nicolai Erdmann, directed J.J.Mateu. "Homme pour Homme"(2000) by Bertold Brecht, directed by L. Lafargue.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None