Members: Alex, Julien Fleury, Leroy Chambers, Thierry Morel and Yann Herve
Country: France
BIO:
They appear for the first time at the time of a noticed concert in first party of The Heavy (Label Ninja Tunes) to the Freighter in March 2008. In September they win the price of Low region Normandy endowed by the regional Counsel, in front of 120 others groups. Obtain the subsidy of the Committee of Assistance to the groups of the current music. 2009 - Compositions and concerts: first party Ziggy to the Normandy St Lô - Then first party Keziah Jones to the Freighter Caen October 2009: Gone out of the first album THE blue angel
Born to Congo, Alex arrives at the age of two years as political exile in Normandy and growing in the innocence of the western values: classical schooling, friends, family, fatherland... It is only at the age of 20 years, when it tests the need of this recentrer on its roots that it undergoes headlong the reality of the cultural gap! Henceforth it knows that his life will be linked to the expression of his double culture, of which the music will be the support of ideal expression. Begin then years of crossing of the desert in the Parisian bars, to the research of his own musical universe. The encounter in 2007 of fascinated musicians, and confirmed, coming from different musical universes having worked with Cheb Tarik, Fatah Benlala, musician of the National Orchestra of Beards, Richard Galliano, Bernard Lavilliers, Sylvain Luc, Swing Family, Daniel Givonne, Rokia Traoré Band,... brings a dimension does more complete to the project of Alex. At once French song, reggae, jazz, funk and soul, Alex & Massmedia musters naturally its influences in a style cross and spiced with chili. An intermarriage of voices, salty sweetened texts and a catalog globe to trot are the ingredients of this recipe made in Normandy. Ecoutez and judge by you even...
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