Nils Nusens

Bio:

I am a French/Swedish composer, singer and trumpeter, living between New York, Upstate NY near Ithaca and Paris Belleville and Ouest Africa. I was a founding member of the cult french Funk group 13NRV (2good.com) which opened for George Clinton at the Midem, 1997 and produced the album "After beat et mourrir". I have composed a bunch of great songs with Vincent Theard "The Professor". Other projects in the works include the "Perplex" project and an album for M-Madwomen Check out http://mem-music.com/ My essential need to generate unpredictable moments of music impelled me to orchestrate many Jam sessions and concerts. Groove based jams open the door for creative meetings between musicians that might not otherwise interact. I have worked quite a bit with Cheick Tidiane Seck and initiated the production of his first solo album "MandingGroove". He introduced me to many talented musicians from Paris, New York and Africa; notably Marque Gilmore the Innermost, ultimate live drum&bass pioneer drummer (drum fm) with whom I played as well sometimes
Cheick is a powerful spirit who pushes us to be music knights and we live our lives sharing the feeling that we always overcome and we make a better day everyday because "We're together" on a mission behind the music. LOVE IN THE BEAT !

Member Since:

June 08, 2006

Members:

.. This band was composed of: Vince Theard "the professor" ..s, Died "Groovy Glue" Combrouze on guitar, Lawrence "NuGroove" Clais on drums, Moon "La fraicheur dangereuse" on bass, "ElectroFunkMaster" Booster ..s, Sandra "FullSoul" Nkake on voice, Himiko "Trans" Paganotti on voice and Chilly "the Most" on sax I also play with : Jay Golden/bass, Frank Mantegari/drums, Thomas Grommaire/guitar, Yann Yankelevitch/sax, Madwomen/voice, Cheick Tidiane Seck/Everything, Mark Kelly/Bass, Dalmar james/Guitar, Jacques Shwartz-Bart/sax, Guillaume Farlet/bass, Simon Andrieux/trombone, Guillaume Dutrieux/trumpet, Gil "C Freak"/Trumpet, Hugh Colman/voice, Eliie Katz/drums, Kwami Brandt-Pierce/keys, Trevor Holder/drums

Influences:

LOUIS ARMSTRONG & MILES DAVIS and almost all their musicians, La Nina de Los Paines, Mark Kelly, Atawalpa Yupanki, Sonny Terry, Bessy Smith, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Isaac Stern, Pierre Chaplet, James Brown, King Sunny Ade, Herbie Hancock, Horowitz, King Oliver, bessie Smith, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, James Brown, George Clinton-Parlament&Funkadelic, Cheick Tidiane Seck, Sonny Rollins, Marque Gilmore, Jimmy Hendricks, Vivaldi, Offenbach, M-Madwomen, Sun Ra, Imani Uzuri, James Hurt, Aretha Franklin, Daniel Moreno, Prince, Avram Fefer, winton kelly, Foley Mac Creary, King Sunny Ade, Taurus Mateen, Jacques Schwartz-Bart, Paco Serry, Franck Mantegari, Lasanna Kouyate, Pit, Marvin Gaye, Didier Cambrouze, Vernon Reed, Juan Rozoff, MeShell NdegeOcello, Cyril Guiraud, Gizmo, Herve Samb, Moon, Kenny Garrett, Lorenz Clay, Bob Marley, Simon Andrieux, Jimmy Cliff, The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, David Bowie, Charlie Parker, The blue Devils, Freddy Hubbard, Yann Yankelevitch, Walli Badaru, Sandra N'Kake, Brandford Marsalis, D'Angelo, Christophe Chaplet, Gene Lake, Weather report, Coltrane, Olivier Riitano, UB40, Wayne Shorter, Linton Kwezi Johnson, Larry Graham, Sly Stone, Lansine Kouyate, Moriba koita, Ali wague, Terry Line Carrington, Ali Farka Toure, Francky Beverly & Maze, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Mathew Garrison, Luther Vandross, Big Bill Bronzy, John Lee Hooker, Perplex,Nina Hagen, The Clash, ACDC, Slade Alive, Rolling Stones, Mustafa Ali Kahn, Zakir Hussein, Trilok Gurtu, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespy, Serge Gainsbourg, Bobby Lapointe, Bjork, Aristid Bruand, as well as ethnic musics and many animals. That's 4 the musicians but I also get influenced by visual things, artists writers and philosophers such as : Pierre Chaplet, Gilles Deleuse, Cremonini, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & hardy, Mies Van Der Row, Picasso, Alechinski, Tingely, Nicky de Saint Fal, Braque, Modigliani, Gunnard Friberg, Calder, Miro, Bacon, Arne Sorenson, Kersti Chaplet, Nils Newson, Jackson Pollock, Akira Kurosawa, Antonioni, Fellini, Vitorio De Sica, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franck Lloyd Wright, Kandinsky, Klee, Henry Cartier Bresson, Brian Oglesbee, Godard, Celine, Victor Hugo, Borges, Jean Cassou, Rimbaud, Shakespear, Orson Wells, Htchcock, Beaudelaire, jerome K jerome, Jacques TatiTribe Arts, etc,etc... 2 B continued. .. .. ..

Sounds Like:

The Ice melting 4 cryin'out Loud. ..

Record Label:

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