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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]
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| Origin | Mont-de-Marsan, Landes, France |
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| Years active | 2007-present |
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| Website | www |
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]
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