LA SUITE BIZARRE

Music:

Member Since: 11/2/2007
Band Website: [email protected]"lasuitebizarre.com
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Band Members:

*ISRA J. ALEJAN: VOICE/GUITAR/SITAR/PROGRAMMER
*HUGO DEVROOM: PERCUSSION
*PASCAL GAUTIER: SAXOPHONE/CLARINET
*ANTONIO CABRER: BASS
*DJ MESTRE: PROGRAMMER

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS:
BIANCA DE LA ROSA: KEYBOARDS, ACOUSTIC GUITAR, VOICE
MARCELO J: SAXOPHONE, FLAUTE

Influences: Zzz-Kraftwerk-The Pixies- !!! -Tom Waits-Beck- The Beach Boys- Prince, Pavement- Sonic Youth- New Order- Sly Stone- Parliament- Shangri-las- ESG- Run DMC-Afrika Bambaataa- Beatles- Stones- Blondie- DNA Gang Of Four- Talking Heads, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Fela Kuti, Miles Davis, The Stooges, The Who, The Velvet Underground- Mc5- Soda Stereo- Funkcadelic-The Cure- Spacemen 3- Primal Scream- Stevie wonder- Death in Vegas- B.r.m.c- Happy Mondays- The Smiths- Massive Attack- Air- Joy Division- The Temptations- The Staples Singers- James Brown- Ravi Shankar. P j Harvey- Duran Duran- Bjork- Juana Molina- Phil Spector- Cocteau Twins- Polvorosa- Waltër- Maceo Parker- Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra- Elevi- Aaron Neville- De La Soul- Ohio Players- Bessie Smith- The Doors- Lcd Sound System-Frank Sinatra.
Sounds Like: ENGLISH
LA SUITE BIZARRE : SEX, FUNK & ELECTROBIZARREWay back in another century, left behind on the garbage site in our memory, in what was then called the eighties, a German group called KRAFTWERK emerged. Many of us (especially the older reader) remember their hit “Autobahn”: a repetitive refrain saying “Bahn bahn auf die autobahn” on a smooth electric layer of synthesizers and sounds of cars passing by, all of it attributed to a trance-like hypnotizing sound. Around the same time in good old England THOMAS DOLBY had a dancehall hit with “she blinded me science”, music which was to be filed under DISCO, but that sounded like pop of a century still ahead of us. All around Europe groups emerged that sounded more electronic, yes, even industrial, and less like pop music. Electronic pop music was born, at the end of the 20th century, but digital pop music (the use of computers for composing songs) was still to come. As the new age grew closer, disco music transformed into house, techno and the like; dance music became more and more instrumental, but still some “rebels” like PRINCE and BECK refused to give in and kept on producing danceable music with poppy lyrics. Now we are in the 21st century and here comes a band called LA SUITE BIZARRE and although it is true that their inspiration has to be found in the last century, their music surely sounds like the 21st century. With LA SUITE BIZARRE we can glimpse the intention to melt the slightly impersonal electronic music with a feeling, a warm voice; emotion. Hence, it is no surprise to us that this new project has a different approach as to the instruments being used: the drums have given away to hand percussion played by a Dutch percussionist; the harmony is enriched by a French saxophone player; a deejay has enforced the band and as a result the music has become more funky, therefore the more appropriate term ELECTROFUNK. The lyrics are simple: their goal is, like in the best TALKING HEADS tradition, to support the music, not the other way around. Israel stated that the main theme in the lyrics is sexuality; in the “read-between-the-lines way, as in the black American Funk music of the seventies. So here we are with BIZARRE music, music that seemed to be recorded in a fancy hotel in a 200 euro p. night SUITE, in the early morning hours after one of these famous booze & sex infested parties… Are you ready for SEX, FUNK & ELECTROBIZARRE by LA SUITE BIZARRE ?ESPAÑOL
Poner etiquetas a la música de La Suite Bizarre, es poner puertas al ilimitado campo de sonoridades y matices que aparecen en cada una de sus canciones. El cosmopolitismo sonoro es una de las señas de identidad de La Suite Bizarre... su líder, alma y motor Isra J. Alejandro, ha puesto en marcha la batidora sonora con infinidad de ingredientes, dotándola de un indudable sello personal en el que el resultado es mucho más que la suma de sus elementos. Pueden encontrarse ecos de las armonias vocales de Fangoria, del saxo de Garberek, del sonido máquina de Kraftwerk, del primigenio house de Detroit, del desenfado sonoro de Primal Scream y de ciertos tintes étnicos. Éste es el resultado de proyectos previos y de la experiencia de grabar con Harold Burgon (quien ha trabajado con artistas como David Bowie, George Harrison, My Bloody Valentine). La Suite Bizarre es la concentración de todos los buenos detalles captados en la música. El auténtico revulsivo de su evolución viene de fusionar funk/psicodelia de finales de los 70, electrónica de los 80, sonidos propios de los 90, y una producción actual.
Record Label: Indie
Type of Label: Indie