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The Inspector Cluzo
French rock group From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Inspector Cluzo is a French rock group from Mont-de-Marsan, Landes, France[2] that formed in 2007.[3] The group is composed of Laurent "Malcolm" Lacrouts on the guitar and vocals and Mathieu "Phil" Jourdain on the drums. Both are Mont-de-Marsan natives and former members of the band Wolfunkind.[4][2][3][5][6][7]
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The name of the group was proposed by their friend and Fishbone singer Angelo Moore and references the character Inspector Clouseau that appears in the Pink Panther movies.[5][8]
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Lacrouts and Jourdain met during their first year of physics studies in Mont de Marsan.[9] After playing in the band Wolfunkind, the two formed a duo.[4]
Their first EP was recorded in 2008 and produced at Jet Studio in Brussels by Stephane Kraemer.[8] The same year, they released their 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,[5] 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 and had performed in more than 800 concerts, visited 44 countries, and sold 100,000 albums.[4]
In 2018, they recorded their 7th album, We the People of the Soil in Nashville with Vance Powell, marking the duo's tenth anniversary.[12][13]
At the beginning of 2020, the group released a "best-of" unplugged album entitled Brothers In Ideals, recorded during their American tour. 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 by Romain Lejeune and illustrated by Marc Large.[17]
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Farming & Do It Yourself approach
The duo runs a 15 hectare organic family farm in Gascony called "LOU CASSE" ('the oak' in the Gascon language). The farm, which they bought in 2013, is self-sustaining. On the farm they produce 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 farming their focus, they split their time between the farm and their work as musician-composers, spending six months on each.[12][9]
The duo work to apply the tenants of Agroecology on their farm and teach it to local kids[15] and the 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",[4] 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]
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Musical style
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.[5] 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 and 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]
Discography
- (2008) Cluzo, EP, (Ter a Terre)
- (2008) The Inspector Cluzo, CD, (Ter A Terre)
- (2010) The French Bastards, CD, (Ter A Terre)
- (2012) The 2 Mousquetaires, CD, (Ter A Terre/FucktheBassPlayer Records)
- (2013) Gasconha Rocks, CD, (FucktheBassPlayer Records)
- (2016) Rockfarmers, CD, (FucktheBassPlayer Records)
- (2018) We the people of the soil, CD, (FucktheBassPlayer Records)
- (2020) Brothers in Ideal - We the People of the Soil, Unplugged (Universal Music Division, Virgin Records Distribution Deal)
- (2023) Horizon, CD, (FucktheBassPlayer Records)
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External links
- http://www.theinspectorcluzo.com
- Discogs
- Biographical references: VIAF | ISNI | BnF
References
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