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ETHIOPIAN CRUNCH MUSIC
New line-up / new single / new album
Contacts
ukandanz@ukandanz.com +33 (0)4 78 67 44 18
Promo / Booking : duretdoux@gmail.com +33 (0)6 49 02 17 18
www.ukandanz.com
New EP – October 2014 (Dur et doux records)
New album – Spring 2015 (Buda music / Dur et doux)
Discography
Yetchalal (Buda Musique / Ethiosonic – 2012)
EP (Autoprod - 2010)
Members
Asnake Guebreyes - vocals / Damien Cluzel - guitar
Benoit Lecomte - bass / Lionel Martin - tenor sax / Guilhem Meier - drums
AN ENCOUNTER
Spotted by Francis Falceto (director of the Ethio-Sonic collection), uKanDanZ was invited
to perform at the “Ethiopian International Music Festival” in Ethiopia with a charismatic singer from Addis Ababa : Asnake Guebreyes (Mohammed Jimmy Mohammed Trio, The Ex,
Addis-Abeba Police Orchestra with Getatchew Mekurya…). Their contribution was obvious
and the new band had great success in its first ethio-european tour in 2010. Ever since, the
band has been on the road, thrilling its audiences with hypnotic ethiogroove and crazy stage
performances. Here they were rising up to the challenge of charming and bringing together
a wide audience ranging from jazz lovers, world music and rock festival enthusiasts to more
underground crowds like squatters, Ethiopian wasteland onlookers, travelers…
A UNIQUE AND EXPLOSIVE STYLE: THE ETHIOPIAN CRUNCH MUSIC
Taking its inspiration in traditional and popular Ethiopian songs, the music of uKanDanZ
is mainly characterized by the originality of its compositions and arrangements as well as by
an extra-ordinary energy.
The quartet explores Ethiopian rhythms and sonorities and delivers a powerful and
subtle rock groove (odd rhythms, dissonances) sublimated by the virtuoso voice of Asnake
Guebreyes.
Tour - Passed gigs
FRANCE / EUROPE
USA / ASIA
Nuits de fourvière / Jazzdor Berlin / Africolor / Les Invites /
Natjazz Bergen / Banlieue Bleue / Global Copenhagen /
Oasis Bizz’Art / Croisée des Chemins / Fest’Afrik / Angelo Mai
Roma / Rasa / Arci Biko Milano / A Vaulx Jazz / Zuiderpershuis
/ DE Regentes / Jazz 11 Geneva / Terre de Couleur / Opéra
de Lyon / Rhino Jazz / Millau Jazz / Festival de Thau /
Aeronef /Epicerie Moderne / Le Fil / La Rodia / La Dynamo
/ Alliance Française de Paris / Théâtre de la Ville / RFI / Le
Cap / Pannomica / Café Charbon / La Cigale / Art’Cade /
La Péniche / Le Nadir / Cavazik / La Bobine / Recycl’art / 4
Ecluses / Alimentation Générale / Iboat / Mix’art Myrys
Lincoln center out of doors
New York / Levitt Pavilion
for the Performing Arts Los
Angeles / Sukiyaki meets
the wolrd Tokyo / Isla de
Salsa Fukuoka
ETHIOPIA
National Theater Addis Abeba / Alliance française /
Milenium park Dire dawa /Meskel square Nazareth /
Awassa, guramaylé Addis Abeba / Fendika Addis Abeba …
Availability 2015
January 15 – February 5th
June – July
Fall
More on request
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DanZ, an
début of uKan
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with the U.S.
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French rock.”
crunch” band
even a hint of
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is
no
,
The New Yorker
with jazz
“uKanDanZ represent next step of evol
ution of contemporary
Ethiopian music, impressively buil
ding on the post-punk
fusion of Getatchew Mekurya and The
Ex. Asnake Guebreyes
is a charismatic frontman, with
powerful vocals and
ecstatic dancing, backed by a
punk and prog-influenced
French quartet that gives the grou
p a sound and intensity
that’s both deeply rooted, and uniq
uely their own.”
Bill Bragin / Lincoln Center for
the performing arts /
New York City
ik,
Mus
südindischen
der
Polyrhythmik
»Die
eines Steve
ten
men
eri
Exp
verbunden mit den
ationen
iten Gesangsimprovis
Coleman und den bre
ischen
iop
äth
der
,
Azmari
in der Tradition der
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Wandersänger - ein fas
Kultur
o
adi
Deutschlandr
“A
concert,
where
crossover
was
the
essence and
which grew
beyond
all
borders.
Great concer
t with a
band, we very
much would
like to see
again.”
Torben Holleu
fer /
Global Copenh
agen
“Their energy
makes it so
und like
rock, their
improvisatio
ns remind us
of jazz and
the very soul
sound is et
of their
hnic. This
is Ethiobeat
with the powe
r of trance.”
Zuiderpershu
is / Antwerpe
n / Belgium
« Dans un style ethiogroove, aux influences
rock, jazz, musiques traditionnelles et
contemporaines éthiopiennes. »
CLP - Jean-Marc Gaudillat
héritage ouvertement
« On est là dans un
is des années 60’s,
Add
assumé du Swinging
via les compilations
remis à l’honneur
se, ça groove… »
’Ethiopiques’. Ca pul
Rhino Jazz
« Leur musique “crunch”
version bodybuildée de l’é
thio-jazz,
relit les vieux standards
, tels ceux du légendair
e Tlahoun
Gèsssèssè, façon rock éthiop
ique. Ils ont l’attitude,
l’énergie
sauvage, le gros son et le
groove, explosif. Guèbrèyès
termine
sur les genoux, et nous,
on en redemande ! »
Télérama – Anne Berthod
LiNKS
Sema (Clip)
Belomi Benna (Clip)
Japan (Live)
Promo / Booking
DUR ET DOUX
www.duretdoux.com
duretdoux@gmail.com
29 rue Emile Combes
69008 LYON - FRANCE
www.ukandanz.com