The Inspector Cluzo | |
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![]() The Inspector Cluzo performing at Kade Rock | |
Background information | |
Origin | Mont-de-Marsan, Landes, France |
Genres | |
Years active | 2007-present |
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Members |
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Website |
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The Inspector Cluzo is a French rock group, from Mont-de-Marsan (department of Landes), [2] formed in 2007. [3] The group is composed of Laurent "Malcom" Lacrouts, on the guitar and vocals and Mathieu "Phil" Jourdain, on the drums, both native of Mont-de-Marsan. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Both are former members of the band Wolfunkind . [7] The name of the group was proposed by their friend Angelo Moore, [4] singer in the group Fishbone, and references the " Inspector Clouseau" that appears as a characters in the movie Pink Panther. [8]
The two members of the group met at their 1st year of Physics studies in Mont de Marsan.
[9] After playing in the band
Wolfunkind the two formed a duo.
[7]
Their first EP was recorded in 2008, produced at Jet Studio in Brussels by Stephane Kraemer.
[8] The same year they released the first full-length eponymous album, which included two notable songs "Two Days" and "F*ck the Bass Player". The album was covered in French and International press,
[10] including in Japan
[4] where they participated in the "Fuji Rock" festival.
[11]
In April 2010 they released their second album, The French Bastards. In February 2012, their third, The 2 Mousquetaires, was released inside a comic book as its official jacket. By 2016 they released two more albums Gasconha Rocks and Rockfarmers, have given more than 800 concerts, visited 44 countries, and sold 100,000 albums. [7]
In 2018 they recorded their 7th album "We the people of the soil" in Nashville, with Vance Powell, which marked the 10 year anniversary of the duo. [12] [13] At the beginning of 2020, the group released a "best-of" unplugged entitled Brothers In ideals, recorded during their American tourney. In January 2023 their eighth album, entitled Horizon, was released. Both were produced by Vance Powell. [13] [14] [15] [16]
The band is the subject of a book, biography of the band, as musicians and famers, by Romain Lejeune, and illustrated by Marc Large. [17]
The duo runs a 15 hectare organic family farm called “LOU CASSE” (the oak in Gascon language) in Gascony. The farm, which they bought in 2013, is self-sustaining, and is producing organic wheat and organic corn with their own free seeds, raise gray geese and other plants and animals.
[9]
[12]
[13]
[16] While they consider that their main activity is farming, they split their time between the farm and the musicians-composers, with 6 months spent on each activity.
[12]
[9]
The duo work to apply the tenants of
Agroecology, on their farm, teach it to local kids,
[15] and to greater public, for example by including lectures on the subject as the opening act for their concerts.
[18]
The duo, in music and farming, pursue the goal of being autonomous, independent, and ability to do all with what they have and by themselves.
[13]
[16] They manage their own label "F*ckthebassplayer Records",
[7] which, since 2012, acts as the distributor of the Ter a Terre records in France, also of their own making.
[3] Besides the farm, and their music, the duo manages, with family and trusted friends, on their own the concert bookings, publicity, recording, sales of their music and farm produce.
[9]
The " Les Inrockuptibles" when writing about their album "The French Bastards", called their style a fusion between funk rock and heavy metal, with a note that the band does not have a bass player. [19] In the description of the same album Crossbeat also noted that the band's style is a fusion, at moments reminiscent of AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. [4] In 2011, an article about the Art Rock festival, described the duo's style as being funk’n’roll, somewhere between the Red Hot Chili Peppers et AC/DC. [20]
Their live performances are characterized as energetic, lively, accomplishing with just two musicians a large sound that transforms between blues-rock and hard-rock.
[20]
The duo sings in English.
[3]
The Inspector Cluzo, will kick off the gig with their mix of funk and rock to 70s groove
The Inspector Cluzo | |
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![]() The Inspector Cluzo performing at Kade Rock | |
Background information | |
Origin | Mont-de-Marsan, Landes, France |
Genres | |
Years active | 2007-present |
Labels |
|
Members |
|
Website |
www |
The Inspector Cluzo is a French rock group, from Mont-de-Marsan (department of Landes), [2] formed in 2007. [3] The group is composed of Laurent "Malcom" Lacrouts, on the guitar and vocals and Mathieu "Phil" Jourdain, on the drums, both native of Mont-de-Marsan. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Both are former members of the band Wolfunkind . [7] The name of the group was proposed by their friend Angelo Moore, [4] singer in the group Fishbone, and references the " Inspector Clouseau" that appears as a characters in the movie Pink Panther. [8]
The two members of the group met at their 1st year of Physics studies in Mont de Marsan.
[9] After playing in the band
Wolfunkind the two formed a duo.
[7]
Their first EP was recorded in 2008, produced at Jet Studio in Brussels by Stephane Kraemer.
[8] The same year they released the first full-length eponymous album, which included two notable songs "Two Days" and "F*ck the Bass Player". The album was covered in French and International press,
[10] including in Japan
[4] where they participated in the "Fuji Rock" festival.
[11]
In April 2010 they released their second album, The French Bastards. In February 2012, their third, The 2 Mousquetaires, was released inside a comic book as its official jacket. By 2016 they released two more albums Gasconha Rocks and Rockfarmers, have given more than 800 concerts, visited 44 countries, and sold 100,000 albums. [7]
In 2018 they recorded their 7th album "We the people of the soil" in Nashville, with Vance Powell, which marked the 10 year anniversary of the duo. [12] [13] At the beginning of 2020, the group released a "best-of" unplugged entitled Brothers In ideals, recorded during their American tourney. In January 2023 their eighth album, entitled Horizon, was released. Both were produced by Vance Powell. [13] [14] [15] [16]
The band is the subject of a book, biography of the band, as musicians and famers, by Romain Lejeune, and illustrated by Marc Large. [17]
The duo runs a 15 hectare organic family farm called “LOU CASSE” (the oak in Gascon language) in Gascony. The farm, which they bought in 2013, is self-sustaining, and is producing organic wheat and organic corn with their own free seeds, raise gray geese and other plants and animals.
[9]
[12]
[13]
[16] While they consider that their main activity is farming, they split their time between the farm and the musicians-composers, with 6 months spent on each activity.
[12]
[9]
The duo work to apply the tenants of
Agroecology, on their farm, teach it to local kids,
[15] and to greater public, for example by including lectures on the subject as the opening act for their concerts.
[18]
The duo, in music and farming, pursue the goal of being autonomous, independent, and ability to do all with what they have and by themselves.
[13]
[16] They manage their own label "F*ckthebassplayer Records",
[7] which, since 2012, acts as the distributor of the Ter a Terre records in France, also of their own making.
[3] Besides the farm, and their music, the duo manages, with family and trusted friends, on their own the concert bookings, publicity, recording, sales of their music and farm produce.
[9]
The " Les Inrockuptibles" when writing about their album "The French Bastards", called their style a fusion between funk rock and heavy metal, with a note that the band does not have a bass player. [19] In the description of the same album Crossbeat also noted that the band's style is a fusion, at moments reminiscent of AC/DC and Led Zeppelin. [4] In 2011, an article about the Art Rock festival, described the duo's style as being funk’n’roll, somewhere between the Red Hot Chili Peppers et AC/DC. [20]
Their live performances are characterized as energetic, lively, accomplishing with just two musicians a large sound that transforms between blues-rock and hard-rock.
[20]
The duo sings in English.
[3]
The Inspector Cluzo, will kick off the gig with their mix of funk and rock to 70s groove