Quickly associated with the French Dub style, the EZ3kiel music group sets itself apart from this trend in music. "Naphtaline", their multimedia show and " "Battlefield", released in January, are proof of this difference. Blending with acoustic styles and electronic inspirations to create a unique approach to music, while contrasting "modernity" and what's "dated", the puzzling and definitely charming EZ3kiel style does not fit any music category. "We like blending different atmospheres, mixing naiveté and severity", say the four members of the group. And the magic has come alive. Combining tracks of melancholy sprinkled with sounds of electro-crackling and machine induced brutal lyrical overwhelmingness, EZ3kiel explores and breaks new grounds to frighten rather than sooth. It's a fabulous journey charged with anachronism, violence and magic. Visuals, rooted in a truly personal world, developed all through the years by the bassist, are being juxtaposed in the EZ3kiel music. The group's style is defined by easily combining precision and concern for details, paintings, fabrics, and old gadgets with today's new technologies. The EZ3kiel brand, originating from this very distinct visual world.
Their concerts, staging their imaginary world, forged their fame and reputation. Using new technologies as tools for their art, they project animated images and videos creating a world of music and graphics merged in one. They go further with this experience in using an interactive balloon, developed in collaboration with CEA-Leti Minatec research engineers. EZ3kiel, the acoustic harmony in the electronic world.
Biographies:
Yann Nguema Design Artist, Bassist, Graphic Artist, holding a "Diplôme National Supérieur d’Etudes Plastiques", has been playing music and designing visuals for the EZ3kiel group since the age of eighteen. Practising in parallel and overlapping sound and visuals, has become at an early stage the core principle of his art, founding step by step its particularity and consistency. Yann Nguema has moved, on the music side, from the bass guitar to programming and composing, while on the visual side, from image to video, then from light effects to multimedia and finally, from interactive images to installations.
His typical visuals have of course animated the EZ3kiel tours, but also the Turin Olympic Games on behalf of the French Ski Federation, the festival "Transmusicales" in Rennes and he provided communication devices during the Rencontres-i Festivals. He has conceived EZ3kiel's Poetic Mechanics, interactive installations.
Stéphane Babiaud - Percussionist, Drummer
Nurtured on piano, vocals, drums and percussions in his young years, a try-everything type of person, after a few years at the music conservatory and in several emerging music groups, such as Hemp (1993-2000), Hutchinson (discovered at the Transmusicales Festival in Rennes in 2004), the Ducoin Orchestra, Sire K, Stéphane, has joined the EZ3kiel group in 2006 as an invited, then as a permanent member. Has gathered musicians and directed the big ensemble for the Naphtaline concert at Hexagone Scène Nationale in Meylan.
Joan Guillon - Guitarist, Programmer
Guitars, synthesizers, samplers, computers are Joan Guillon, instrumentalist and composer's basic tools.
Author of most EZ3kiel productions.
Matthieu Fays - Drums Drummer since the age of seventeen, together with Yann Nguéma, EZ3kiel group founder.
Concert Naphtaline
EZ3kiel - Tour 2011
From 14 to 27 February 2011 - MONTPELLIER - Carré Ste Anne
From 21 March to 09 April 2011 - AMBARES - Pôle culturel Evasion
From 03 to 21 May 2011 - EVRY - Théâtre de l'Agora
From 27 May to 03 July 2011 - TOURS - Château de Tours
EZ3KIEL – BATTLEFIELD TOUR 08
07/02 ORLEANS Astrolabe 08/02 LAVAL Festival Foin d’Hiver 09/02 CAEN Le Cargo 12/02 RENNES L’Antipode 13/02 ANGERS Le Chabada 14/02 ST NAZAIRE Le VIP 15/02 LA ROCHE SUR YON Le Fuzz’Yon 16/02 ANGOULEME La Nef 20/02 BRIANCON MJC Babylone 23/02 TOULON Oméga Live 29/02 LA ROCHELLE / AYTRE maison Georges Brassens
01/03 TULLE Les Lendemains qui chante 07/03 AVIGNON L’Akwaba 08/03 BOURG EN BRESSE La Tannerie 13/03 ANNECY Le Brise Glace 14/03 MEYLAN-GRENOBLE L’Hexagone 15/03 VIVIERS centre culturel de Viviers 18/03 PARIS La Cigale 20/03 CLERMONT FERRAND La coopérative de Mai 21/03 CREON (33) festival Le Festin 22/03 AGEN Le Florida 23/03 MARSEILLE Cabaret Aléatoire 24/03 NICE Au Méditérannée"Acropolis 26/03 COLMAR Le Grillen 27/03 NANCY L’autre Canal 28/03 REIMS La Cartonnerie 29/03 BOURGOIN JALLIEU Aux Abattoirs
02/04 DIJON La Vapeur 05/04 MORLAIX Festival Panorama 10/04 MONTPELLIER Le Rockstore 11/04 ALZONNE (11) FESTIVAL Hace Calor 12/04 FIRMINY (42) Festival Air Jeunes 2008 17/04 GENEVE (CH) L’Usine / MApping festival 19/04 BOURGES Printemps de Bourges 23/04 BLOIS le Chato’do 26/04 PERPIGNAN La Casamusicale 30/04 NOTRE DAME DE GRAVENCHON (76) Arcade
03/05 BESANCON Festival Herbe en zik 09/05 FRIBOURG (CH) Le Nouveau Monde 10/05 CHAUX-DE-FONDS (CH) Bikini test 14/05 BRUXELLES Les Nuits Botaniques 22/05 ANGERS Tours de scène 23/05 TOULOUSE Le Bikini 24/05 BERGERAC Le Rocksane 29/05 LILLE L’Aéronef 30/05 VOISIN LE BRETONNEUX La tour prend l’air
01/06 SAINTE MARIE AUX MINES (68) C dans la vallée 03/06 ISSY LES MOULINEAUX Le Cube
06/06 LYON Transbordeur 07/06 AVIGNON 13/06 ONET LE CHATEAU (12) Skabazac festival 15/06 VERNEUIL EN HALATTE (60) Mix Up Festival 26/06 NEUSTRELITZ (D) Fusion festival 28/06 EVREUX Le rock dans tous ces états
02/07 ORLEANS Festival Jour J 04/07 LA SOUTERRAINE (23) festival BDcibels 05/07 MONTENDRE (17) Free Music Festival 12/07 TOURS festival Tours de son 17/07 DOUR (B) Festival de Dour 18/07 BRIOUZE Festival Arts sonic 19/07 BOURNEZEAU Festival le Chant de foire 20/07 AUXERRE Festival aux Zarbs 25/07 MALSETROIT (56) Festival Au Pont Du Rock 26/07 DOUZY (08) Rock Festival
01/08 LA GARDE (83) Kality Street Festival 02/08 SELESTAT (67) Lez'arts Sceniques 24/08 CORSEPT (44) Festival Couvre Feu 29/08 TRELINS (42) Foreztival
02/09 LJUBLJANA (Slovénie) 06/09 LE MANS Festival Teriaki 2 dates Création Hint-EZ3kiel 18/09 LYON Festival Riddim collision 19/09 ANNECY Le Brise Glace 20/09 NANTES festival Scopitone 26/09 BOURGES Emmetrop 27/09 STRASBOURG Festival Ososphère
03/10 CHAUMONT salle du complexe culturel 04/10 ISTRES L’Usine 11/10 BOULOGNE SUR MER Le Poulpaphone 15/10 ROUEN Théatre Duchamp-villon 17/10 LAVAL Le 6par4 18/10 FESTI’VAL DE MARNE 25/10 BREST La Carene 31/10 VENDÔME Les Rockomotives
01/11 CHEMILLE (49) Théâtre « Le Foirail » 05/11 PARIS La Cigale 10/11 LORIENT Festival Les Indisciplinées 15/11 AUBENAS hall des sports 20/11 BORDEAUX Théâtre Femina 21/11 RENNES La Cité 22/11 CHERBOURG L’Agora 29/11 MONTBELLIARD Le Jules Vernes
12/12 POITIERS Le Confort Moderne 13/12 TOULOUSE Le Bikini
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