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Released: Oct 10, 2010

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Proximity Triggered
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Genre: Fusion / Jazz / Rock
Location Strasbourg & Montpellier, Alsace, Fr
Profile Views: 70159
Last Login: 3/30/2012
Member Since 4/20/2007
Website www.alexehrsam.fr
Record Label ShredGuy Records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Hi, my name is Alex Ehrsam & I'm a guitar player from France. My debut album "djaz_dtox" blends instrumental fusion ideas, jazz chordal structures & funky grooves. It was well received in the instrumental guitar musical fields (check magazines' reviews below, thx). I've been playing guitar for the last thirteen years. I grew up in a musical environment listening to a lot of jazz & rag-time, discovering Miles & Coltrane, their universe & their vision of music... Since graduating from Music Academy International (Nancy, France) in december 2003, I've been trying to cut into basic guitar chops to create arpegiated approaches, developing a jazz feel through a specific choice of notes & yet sticking to a heavy rock sound. I'm mostly using mixolydian, dorian, altered, blues modes & a lot of chromatic tricks, through hybrid techniques combining legato, sweep & finger picking…..I also worked on building a smooth nu-jazz ambience in my music. "Elevator Shaft" is one of the tracks dedicated to this amazing musical movement. Dig it. I eventually had the chance to gather 3 musicians, patient, accurate & passionate to play my tunes live, hence giving a true shape to my music. Olivier Wilhelm on drums, Anh-Quàn Lê on fretless bass & Thomas Gutehrlé on guitar. We started playing gigs along 2009, we are poanning a Mini Tour for 2011. The 2d album is mixed, mastered & done. It will be available Ocober 2010 on the US label ShredGuy Records. No programming at all on that gig, only real live musicians this time. Wait & see. I am currently teaching guitar in several schools in the Montpellier area (South of France).
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Booking Contact : xehrsam@yahoo.com
Influences
John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Steve Coleman, Art Tatum, Roy Hargrove, Greg Howe, Wayne Krantz, Alex Machacek, Vernon Reid, Sylvain Luc, Allan Holdsworth, Brett Garsed, Scott Henderson, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Brad Mehldau, Chucho Valdés, Bugge Wesseltoft, Dälek, Dose One
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