Lehmanns Brothers
Playground
A long way from the shady bankers of New York, it was in Angoulême in 2012, in a small garage on Avenue Lehmann, that five high-school music students came together, groove brothers with a shared passion for Afro-American rhythms. Influenced by funkers such as Prince, Ghost-Note and D'Angelo, the little Frenchies intend to revisit the famous jazz-funk of the seventies, while instilling it with echoes of hip-hop, house and neo-soul. But there are no covers here, as these young musicians, with four EPs to their name, present only compositions penned by the members of the group: guitarist Alvin Amaïzo, drummer Dorris Biayenda, keyboardist and vocalist Julien Anglade, with an incandescent rhythmic alchemy that has nothing to envy their prestigious references.