Artist: Les Hurlement dleo
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
La belle affaire
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Hailing from Bordeaux in southwestern France, les Hurlements d'Léo ("the Screams of Léo," allegedly from the deed of conveyance of a song by VRP) offer a high-energy mark of acoustic java punk rocker rock rooted in the 1980s wave of French alternative artists. The alternative sway of les Garçons Bouchers, the French chanson of Mano Solo, and the multicultural influences of les Négresses Vertes and la Mano Negra all riddle their heavy. After a few age of underground puzzle out, the eight-piece group began to gain national and international attention with their endorsement album, La Belle Affaire, released in 2001.
An early card of quartet musicians began playing under the diagnose les Hurlements d'Léo in the parallel bars of Bordeaux in late 1995. The first shows were more naked, tilt toward punk rocker rock, and featured a criterion careen instrumentation. Until January 1998, the geological formation grows to octonary musicians and shifts the focus to acoustic instruments. Only guitarists and singers Laurent (aka Lolo -- the members all use first names or nicknames only) and Erwan (aka R1) remain from the original quartet. They are first joined by saxist Benoît (aka Ziz or Benziz), bassist David (aka Daoued or Dawed), piano accordion player Jojo, trumpeter Pepito, violinist Zébulon, and drummer Remingo. A usher opener for Pigalle (a project of former members of Les Garçons Bouchers) in January 1998 and a functioning at the Marne music festival two months later got them rave reviews and attracted a managing director.
At this point Les Hurlements d'Léo embarked on constant touring, a style of life that appeals to their Gypsy conduct, fillet only long enough to record in a studio. A first, self-generated CD, Le Café stilbestrol Jours Heureux, came proscribed in early 1999. It was licensed to Pias for distribution and sold 25,000 units for the most part on the intensity of pipeline. The radical began to appear all over in France and Francophone Europe. For La Belle Affaire, they enjoyed bigger agency of production. Recorded in the summer of 2000, it came verboten early in 2001. A tour of Quebec preceded the waiver of Un Air Deux Familles in December of the like twelvemonth, an album written, performed, and recorded with the group Ogres de Barback.
