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"ConFusion" french jazzrock band

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Topic: "ConFusion" french jazzrock band
Posted By: goertz
Subject: "ConFusion" french jazzrock band
Date Posted: August 18 2010 at 08:36

Hello

I'd like to present my own band here "ConFusion".
I think we can be considered as "unsigned" band as we are

1- pure "amateurs" as we make our living out of any music business

2- have no artist contract

3- we have released 3 albums but recorded by ourselves with basic recording gear, only available FOR FREE on internet

4- almost totally unknown

Now let me introduce my band

"ConFusion" is a French jazz-rock fusion band mainly inspired by 70's music (fusion, jazz rock, progressive and zeuhl music)
I would say we play a kind of "progressive jazz"

The band started in 1996 as a quartet (drums , bass, keys and violin) playing first covers of COREA, Don GROLNICK, SHORTER, METHENY etc.. and began to compose their own tunes.

we recorded a first demo "HOME MADE" with only our own tunes (for copyrights reasons) in 1999. This album is now available on internet and can be downloaded for free on: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/37602 - http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/37602

Then, after a change of drummer we focused only on original compositions and released a second album "Jazzpassaj" in 2004 available for free on:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/2913 - http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/2913

later our bassist left the band and we tried to continue as a trio, we rearranged the material accordingly and the violonist introduced the electric guitar in his sound palette.

We had the luck to find an adequate bass player in 2008 and worked on our 3rd album "3 ème Impair" just released this month and available for free on:

http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/72804 - http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/72804


We also have a myspace page:

http://www.myspace.com/groupeconfusion - http://www.myspace.com/groupeconfusion


We have participated on a MAGMA compilation "HAMTAÏ" available (not for free here) on:
http://www.welcomerecords.com/indexflash.php - http://www.welcomerecords.com/indexflash.php

Hope that somebody would enjoy our music.

We would also be pleased to have a band page on progarchive but don't know if how to do it and if it's possible for unsigned bands




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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: August 25 2010 at 09:17
Very good stuff guys, bravo! IMO you're pro enough to get signed. Hopefully you'll be lucky with that sometime soon.

For the moment Jamendo isn't working so I listened to what you had on MySpace. For sharing the music I'd recommend BandCamp, they're great. They have an excellent streaming player that allows high quality mp3 files, it allows download and it can provide a simple platform for selling music too, without intermediaries.


Posted By: goertz
Date Posted: August 27 2010 at 01:52
Thanks for the advice. I'll think to put our music on BandCamp site
 
There is a .wav version on our last album available here. the download should work
 
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P0WUTEFD - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=P0WUTEFD



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