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benwa

About Me


is a electro-rock concept born in 2007.
Produced by Pat Lepirate and masterized by Michel Geiss (Jean-Michel Jarre, Trust, Saïan Supa Crew ...), the first EP should soon be available in any music shop and on the web here .
On stage, "The Mitterand's Kids", Dams and Musance play the drums and the bass guitar, to assist benwa and his computer.
More to come on this page soon...
"benwa" est un concept electro-rock né en 2007.
Mixé et arrangé par Pat Lepirate, masterisé par Michel Geiss (Jean-Michel Jarre, Trust ,Saïan Supa Crew, ...), le premier Maxi, "Walk in My Shoes" devrait être bientôt disponible dans tous les magasins de disques et est téléchargeable ici .
Sur scène "The Mitterrand's Kids", Dams et Musance à la batterie et à la basse, accompagnent benwa et ses machines.
La suite à suivre sur cette page..."

"It's kind of like Nick Cave mixed with Kraftwerk, very good"
Gary and Richard - Bristol Uncovered - BBC (UK)
If you wanna remix one of our tracks, feel free to contact us.
Si vous voulez remixer une de nos track, contactez-nous.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/23/2006
Band Members: benwa - vocals, bass, programming
dams - live drums
musance - live bass



Influences: The Doors, Gorillaz, Eels, 70's Funk/Soul, Red Hot, Radiohead, Cake, DAG, The Cure, St Germain, Serge Gainsbourg, Blur, Led Zep, Keziah Jones, The Strokes, Joy Division, Thierry Robin, Soul Coughing, Groove Armada, Bob Marley, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Just Jack, Curtis Mayfield, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bauhaus, The Raptures, Pearl Jam, Mei tei Sho, Daft Punk, Air, Gotan Project, Curtis Mayfield, Jeff Buckley, The White Stripes, Le Peuple de L'Herbe, Damien Rice, -M-, Jacques Dutronc, Katerine, Fat Boy Slim, Yann Tiersen, Noir Désir, Rage Against The Machine, James Brown, Beastie Boys, Kid Loco, 18th Dye, Jimie Hendrix, Dead Can Dance, Agoria, Muse, Portishead, Placebo, Asian Dub Foundation, The Smashing Pumpkins, Björk, Steel Pulse, Levellers 5, Manu Chao, Groundation, Rita Mistouko, some artists on MySpace, Palchelbel, and many more ...

Sounds Like: The Doors, Gorillaz, Eels, 70's Funk/Soul, Red Hot, Radiohead, Cake, DAG, The Cure, St Germain, Serge Gainsbourg, Blur, Led Zep, Keziah Jones, The Strokes, Joy Division, Thierry Robin, Soul Coughing, Groove Armada, Bob Marley, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack, Just Jack, Curtis Mayfield, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bauhaus, The Raptures, Pearl Jam, Mei tei Sho, Daft Punk, Air, Gotan Project, Curtis Mayfield, David Bowie, Archive, Jeff Buckley, The White Stripes, Le Peuple de L'Herbe, Damien Rice, -M-, Jacques Dutronc, Katerine, Fat Boy Slim, Yann Tiersen, Noir Désir, Rage Against The Machine, James Brown, Beastie Boys, Kid Loco, 18th Dye, Jimie Hendrix, Dead Can Dance, Agoria, Muse, Portishead, Placebo, Asian Dub Foundation, The Smashing Pumpkins, Björk, Steel Pulse, Manu Chao, Groundation, Rita Mistouko, some artists on MySpace, Palchelbel, and many more ...
Record Label: looking for one
Type of Label: None

My Blog

benwa on the BBC Bristol

Well, there is this weekly show on the BBC Bristol, "Bristol Unovered" that mainly plays the music of local bands. I've contacted Richard and Gary, the presenters of the show, through myspace. I'm obv...
Posted by benwa on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:31:00 PST

benwa kézako

« Les premières musiques auxquelles on s'intéresse, auxquelles on s'identifie, laissent toujours des traces voir des empreintes indélébiles. On s'en écarte souvent avec le temps, on prend parfois des ...
Posted by benwa on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:56:00 PST