THE BEATLES,TOM PETTY, BOB MARLEY. THE CLASH, THE RUTS, DEAD KENNEDYS,CHUCK BERRY,KASSAV,BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN,ROLLING STONES,PRINCE BUSTER, TOOTS AND THE MAYTALS, LINTON KWESI JOHNSON,PAUL SIMON,MAMY MORE AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN INFLUENCES.
'SPIRIT OF ZAFRAMOON" AVAILABLE NOW ON iTunes ...CLICK HERE..
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FORMED IN 1991 IN VAL THORENS, SAVOIE, FRANCE AS DAVE MORRIS, USING HIS ARTIST'S NAME OF LEO MOON, AND PAT ZAFRA STARTED JAMMING DAVE'S SONGS AND WELL KNOWN COVERS AT LA TAVERN.LA TAVERN WAS A BAR WHERE THE TRADITION WAS DANCING ON THE TABLES....ONE OF THE CURIOUS THINGS ABOUT THE BAND'S INCEPTION WAS THAT DAVE WAS EXPERIMENTING WITH AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN RYTHMS AND WAS FROM MANCHESTER UK,BASTION OF ROCK AND ROLL;AND PAT WAS OF GUADELOUPEAN ORIGIN AND WAS TURNED ON BY ROCK AND ROLL. A KIND OF CROSS-FUSION OPERATED IN WHICH VARIOUS SONGS WERE WRITTEN. DAVE AND PAT SPENT 90 DAYS EVERY NIGHT AT LA TAVERN PERFECTING AND CRAFTING A REPERTOIRE OF ORIGINALS AND COVERS.COME THE SUMMER OF '91, THE BAND WAS SUPPLEMENTED BY FRANCK CADET A.K.A KD ON DRUMS. IN LATE 1992 THE BAND WAS JOINED BY FRED POINT ON PERCUSSION AND BACKING VOCALS AND THE FOUR GUYS LAUNCHED INTO A DEEPER FUSION OF ROCK AND REGGAE/AFRO/ZOUK STYLES.THE BAND TOURED THE ALPINE REGIONS OF FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND IN WINTER AND THE SOUTH COAST OF FRANCE IN SUMMER. IN SEPTEMBER 1993 K.D. LEFT TO STUDY MUSIC AT A RENOWNED MUSIC SCHOOL IN NANCY, BEING REPLACED FIRST BY JEAN-PHILIPPE CHERRIER AND THEN BY KHOUDIR SAIDI ON DRUMS. ONE YEAR LATER THE DESIRE TO FATHER A FAMILY CAUSED PAT TO DEPART THE BAND AND JEROME ARMANDIE TOOK OVER ON BASS. AFTER A PERIOD OF TURBULENCE THE BAND RECORDED IT'S FIRST ALBUM "SPIRIT OF ZAFRAMOON' IN TOURS IN THE WINTER OF 1995. PAT RETURNED FOR THE RECORDING., ALONG WITH VETERAN JAZZ DRUMMER THIERRY LANGE-BERTEAUX ON DRUMS. PHILIPPE DEYZIEUX PLAYED DRUMS FOR THE 1995-96 WINTER SEASON, HE WAS REPLACED BY DAVID GOURY FOR THE FOLLOWING SUMMER.SLY LAURENT RE-PLACED JEROME FOR THE SUMMER OF 1996 IN ORDER TO PLAY ALONGSIDE DAVID GOURY,THE CHEMISTRY WASN'T TOO SUCCESSFUL AND THE BAND SPENT THE WINTER OF 1996 MOSTLY IDLE. IN 1997 K.D RETURNED TO THE BAND AND JEROME LEFT, TO BE REPLACED BY LAURENT MOUILLET;COMMONLY KNOWN AS GENE.ON BASS. THIS FORMATION LASTED UNTIL 1999, WHEN THE BAND DISBANDED. DAVE IS NOW TOURING UNDER THE NAME OF MR SKIN WITH HIS OWN BAND, FRED AND PAT STILL PLAY BUT NOT PROFESSIONALLY. GENE, JEROME,FRANCK, KHOUDIR AND THIERRY ARE ALL INVOLVED IN VARIOUS PROJECTS...
NOTE!!!!! THE BAND MEMBERS ARE ALL ALIVE, KICKING, WELL AND ON FRIENDLY TERMS....IT'S NOT UNREALISTIC TO THINK/HOPE/BELIEVE THAT ZAFRAMOON WILL RE-UNITE AGAIN ONE DAY TO RISE FROM IT'S OWN ASHES....
SEE ALSO....http://www.peoplesound.com............ then search zaframoon
Salut les Zaframoon, j'adore cet album " Spirit of Zaframoon" il est terrible, cela me fait un très grand plaisir de l'écouter....beaucoup de souvenir... Doudou
yo Dave toujours a la montagne jusqu'au 8 mai, un bref sejour dans le sud puis direction Costa Rica pendant 15 jours yeah!!! je te telephone ds le sud tcho
hello my friend je te souhaite 1 merveilleuse année,pleine de santé,d amour,de music et de tunes. ca minterresse pour cet été,mais c est encore loin,tout ca. ici a paris,il fait froid.tu dois bien kiffé a st martin
A partir de 20h - Dîner Spectacle sur réservation uniquement au 01 43 56 39 60 (prix du dîner spectacle : 46 euros )
Concert à partir de 22h30 - Prix des places : 15€ - Fnac Carrefour 0 892 68 36 22 et www.fnac.com Plus d'informations www.djabaka-events.com
hello dave
t es rentré en france ou pas?j espere que ca va bien pour toi.je ne sais pas si tu as l intention de faire des concerts cet été,mais si c est le cas ,ca me tenterais bien de faire 1 petit tour avec toi.je suis dispo cet été.
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