Les Singes cosmiques est nom du nouveau groupe des ex “Ménage à 3” et “Colporteurs” Pierre-jean Mourgues (chant guitare, dobro) et Alain Michel (harmo,guitare,chant, basse)
A nouveau réunis aprés 5 années d’interruption, les deux compères s’associent au batteur Jano Athénol qui leur apporte une rythmique inventive et des grooves hypnoptiques.
Toujours principalement influencés par les songsters des années 20 /30 (Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Charley Patton, etc…), les “Singes Cosmiques” revisitent avec une étonnante modernité un répertoire fleurant bon les racines de la musique
Afro Américaine.
S’inspirant de toute la diversité du genre, ils créent ainsi un univers où se côtoient aussi bien une “old time music” débonnaire qu’ un“Delta Blues” rageur et teinté d’un zeste de psychédélisme.
DO NOT TRUST THEIR BLUES !
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Ciao Alain...how are you? I'm doin' fine....not playin' too much but fine....have you seen Veronica's my space?Take a look and listen....you can find her at the top of my friends' list....have a nice week end....
Hello Cosmic Monkey, Hope you are doing well. Blues Detour is now 'live' and taking artist CD submissions. Please check us out and we'll save some shelf space for ya' ;)
Long after the nation has stopped paying attention to the tragedy of post-Katrina New Orleans – we’ll have the music of Andy J Forest to remind us. The New Orleans-based singer and harmonica player kicks off his latest album with “Let ‘em Die,” as scathing an indictment of the Bush administration’s and FEMA’s pitiful perfomances as you’re likely to hear, and one that pairs matter-of-fact reportage with funky New Orleans style R&B. In other words conditions are awful and no one cares. Might as well dance. Real Stories is divided into pre- and post-Katrina compositions, and in the liner notes Forest explains each tune’s origins like a good tour guide. But aside from “Let ‘em Die” and “Breach in the Levee,” these tough-luck tales and street narratives aren’t tethered to any natural disaster. Still, knowing that the album was recorded by a Crescent City local brings deeper meaning to songs like “Trailerless Man” and “4:20 AM” that depict the city’s particular brand of poverty and alienation. Forest is in the same league as Tom Waits in terms of his distintive voice and ability to sell a story. He’s also an inventive harpist who never overplays, and those two facts alone should be enough to entice blues lovers to check out the album. But as fans of his previous work already know, it’s Forest’s craftsmanship as a songwriter that elevates him to the upper echelon of American musicians, blues or otherwise. Swedish-born bluesman Anders Osborne produced Real Stories and contributed guitar on a couple of tracks. New Orleans pianist Marc Adams and a group of Italian musicians backs Forest throughout (Heggy Vezzano, Luca Tonani & Pablo Leoni). But it all comes through as a rich Cajun stew, with a gifted storyteller pulling no punches as he reports on the desperation he knows all too well. Michael Cote www. bluesrevue. com
Salut Alain et autres singes cosmiques,
C'est sympa de te croiser sur MySpace ! J'espère qu'on pourra (enfin) se revoir autour d'une mousse.
A bientôt sur notre Space
Cédric
Il y a quelques années j'étais au fond d'une petite salle d'Ardèche et j'ai écouté un concert des "Colporteurs", j'en garde un bon souvenir... j'espère qu'on aura l'occasion de se croiser! (j'étais à Valence il y a quelques jours...)
jean-marc Henaux (Shake your hipS)
