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Alex

About Me

Born 8/13/1987 , I discovered the music in itself & instrument playing at the age of 6. First i entered a musical school, learning for 2 years Guitar , then i've moved and learned trumpet for actually 11+ years, and also studied Solfege for 8 years.
When i was 17 , my best friend had a band where he's playing the drums and a bassist was missing.Another friend had taken his father's old 72' Fender jazz bass with him in the local and someday purposed me to try playing the bass.Well , since March, 1st 2005, i never dropped that instrument!I absolutely love bass, when i discovered it i played for 5-12h a day (actually i still do.. haha).
After getting my Bachelor's Degree, i decided for study Medicine for two years, then i stopped to attempt a scholarship at the C.M.A (Centre des Musiques Actuelles) in Valenciennes, where i'm studying more deeply bass, harmony, band playing , and alot more of stuff involved into general music & band playing/ studio recording/ producing , etc.. to (hopefully) become a professionnal bass player.

Actually, i'm playing in a few bands:

-"Amartia"
Progressive Rock

This is the 3rd Album, available now :-)

I also have other projects that i won't mention here for the moment :)

I'm moreover playing for myself and anybody who's listening to me :)

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Né le 13/08/87, j'ai découvert la musique & la pratique de l'instrument à l'âge de 6 ans.
J'ai d'abord commencé par deux ans de guitare en école de musique, puis ais déménagé et ai appris la trompette depuis a présent plus de 11ans, toujours en école de Musique, ou j'y ai également étudié le Solfège pendant 8ans ( ce qui m'a valu mon Diplôme de Fin d'Etudes de solfege. ).
A l'âge de 17 ans, mon meilleur ami se mit à la batterie dans un de ces garage bands de lycéens; Il y manquait un bassiste, et un beau jour le guitariste de ce fameux groupe ramena la vieille Jazz Bass 72' de son père et me proposa d'essayer de jouer la basse "Tu connais la musique, essayes alors! C'est facile, tu joues avec les doigts, y'a pas grand chose à faire... " ça m'a tout de suite séduit! :D Bref, depuis le 1er mars 2005, je n'ai jamais lâché l'instrument, dont je suis devenu passionné (peut être même un peu trop?!) , à mes débuts je jouais 5 à 12h par jour (et je continue, d'ailleurs).
Après mon BAC , je décidai d'entreprendre deux années de médecine, qui se soldèrent par un échec, et depuis lors je tente le tout pour le tout afin de devenir un "bassiste professionnel". Je suis actuellement élève au Centre des Musiques Actuelles de Valenciennes où j'y étudie plus profondément la basse, l'harmonie, le jeu en groupe, mais aussi la production, les enregistrements en studio, la MAO, etc... et où j'ai également eu la chance de rencontrer plein de musiciens qui me permettent chaque jour de m'enrichir un peu plus musicalement :)

Pour le moment, je joue dans plusieurs groupes:

-"Amartia"
Rock Progressif

Ci dessus le 3e album, qui vient de sortir :-)Et j'ai également d'autres projets que je ne mentionnerai pas ici pour le moment :)

Je joue également pour moi même et tous ceux qui sont intéressés par ce que je fais.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/02/2006
Band Website: http://youtube.com/user/Alex156
Band Members: Amartia : Vincent Vercaigne (guitar) , Cyril (keyboards), Nicolas Dubois (drums), Britta Herzog (singer) , me (bass).

Lily Duyn's Orchestra : Guilhem (lead guitar), Emily (rythm guitar/soloist) , Titou (singer), Corinne Levaillant (percussions), me (bass).

Past gigs:

03/10/2007 09:15 PM - Lily Duyn's Orchestra @ Bloom's Café (Lille, Nord)
01/25/2008 09:00 PM - Lily Duyn’s Orchestra @ Nouveau Siècle (Lille, Nord)
03/21/2008 09:00 PM - Lily Duyn’s Orchestra @ La Plage (Lille, Nord)
05/17/2008 09:00 PM - Starring Band @ Le Marais (Vendegies au Bois, Nord)
05/27/2008 08:00 PM - CMA / Starring Band @ ISD (Valenciennes, Nord)
05/30/2008 07:00 PM - Concert w/ Brass Gang & Band A Donf (Ronchin, Nord)
05/31/2008 08:00 PM - Starring Band @ Festival de Moto (Bouchain, Nord)
06/01/2008 08:00 PM - Starring Band @ Festival de Moto (Bouchain, Nord)
06/06/2008 09:00 PM - Lily Duyn’s Orchestra @ Lucky Ducky (Lille, Nord)
06/12/2008 09:00 PM - Soul/Jazz Trio session @ Regus, Crowne Plaza (Lille, Nord)
06/21/2008 07:00 PM - Lily Duyn’s Orchestra @ Miss Marple (Lille, Nord)
06/25/2008 08:00 PM - Lôtus @ Le Phénix (Valenciennes, Nord)
06/27/2008 07:00 PM - Concert Gospel (St Saulve, Nord)
09/13/2008 06:00 PM - AmartiA @ Salon de la Musique (Paris, Ile de France)
09/14/2008 05:00 PM - AmartiA @ Raismes Fest (Raismes, Nord)
10/25/2008 08:00 PM - The Last Embrace, Asylum Pyre & AmartiA @ - (Paris, Ile de France)
10/28/2008 11:00 PM - Lôtus & CMA @ Fnac (Valenciennes, Nord)
11/15/2008 09:30 PM - Amartia & The Last Embrace @ Tournai Prog Event - Auberge de Jeunesse (Tournai , Belgium)
11/22/2008 09:30 PM - Low Cost Music @ Shaka Laka (Hazebrouck, Nord)
12/05/2008 09:30 PM - Amartia @ Shamrock (Péronne, Aisne)
12/06/2008 08:00 PM - Lily Duyn’s Orchestra @ Telethon (Douvrain, Nord) [worst gig ever, if you ever do have a gig there, beware of the organisation, really... ;-) ] 12/20/2008 09:00 PM - Continuum @ Cha Cha Cha (Valenciennes, Nord)
01/10/2009 09:00 PM - Amartia @ Skull Bar (Laon, )
01/24/2009 04:00 PM - Amartia @ Fnac (Amiens, Somme)
01/24/2009 09:00 PM - Amartia @ Le Lucullus (Amiens, Somme)
01/27/2009 09:00 PM - Low Cost Music @ Biplan (Lille, Nord)
01/31/2009 09:00 PM - Low Cost Music @ Café Diskaire (Lille, Nord)

Influences: Jazz
Fusion Jazz
Rock
Progressive Rock/Metal
Classical
Salsa
Electro/House
Latin
Ambient
Funk
Soul
Acid Jazz
...
...to be short, almost all styles of music :)


Sounds Like: If you wanna see me playing some covers, i did a few videos on YouTube, so here you can check'em out & give me some feedback :)

A few of my vids can be seen here:

Daft Punk - "Voyager"

Incognito - "Pyramids"

Weather Report - "Teen Town"

Zouk Machine - "Maldon"

Mr Big - "Addicted To That Rush"

Limp Bizkit - "Boiler"
Record Label: none.

My Blog

Some new stuff... soon ...

Well, it's been a looong while I didn't update anything (videos/mp3's) , but i'm working on some new stuff & grooves to improve my page (prolly a few duets, and maybe some drum & bass grooves,...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:56:00 GMT

Back to start again...

Well, my band has been dissocied a week ago, so i'm once again back to start, looking for a new band and new musicians to meet / & to play with. If you wanna give a try, well, you're welcome!
Posted by on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:37:00 GMT

Finally, a new band ! :)

Finally, i found one ! :)Well it's called "Duyn's n' Co" (not sure bout the exact name of it, actually) and it's kinda indie-pop/french stuff; It's... smooth, calm, but there's still some groove that ...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:43:00 GMT

Some news up!

I've just done my first live with my metal band, the 21st June (for the celebration of music in France :) ) and i just especially made a myspace hosting photos & vidéos of it, so i invite you to v...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:21:00 GMT