Elefant'O
Afro-Lounge, Electro-World, Deep House
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Buy digital albumsBack to Africa(CD Album, Digital MP3)
Compilations appearances
Electronic Summer in Corsica (CD Album, Digital MP3)
Harley & Muscle plays Deep House - Fourth Chapter (CD Album, Digital MP3)
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LinksOfficial Websites
www.elefant-o.com
www.myspace.com/elefanto
Distributors & Labels Websites
www.patchwork-records.com
www.labaleine.fr
Artists Websites
www.myspace.com/fredmelosax
Beware ! It’s time to prepare your heart and
Born after a hot night of
love between acoustic instruments and jazzy
electro, Elefant'O drives us into some highly
intimate melodic territories.
For this effervescent project, Stefano got surrounded by a musical tribe of no equivalent. On enchanting flute, snake charmer Lionel Cugnon; Rodolphe Minuit's magic fingers, delivering shining chords from his acoustic guitar, bass and Rhodes. And Fred Melosax wose carribbean saxophone resonates with brio, inside this velvety atmosphere.
As the conductor of this delightful melting-pot, Stefano promises an irresistible and yet unique mixture. Himself, always been appealed by the colorful sound of Hossam Ramzy, Mory Kanté, Olivier Mtukudzi, Toumani Diabate, Najwa Karam, Papa Wemba or Tosca, to name but a few ...
Be sure to get the most melodic results with a hybrid piece full of half-caste tones. The bass caresses your hips while the electronic beat grabs your ankles; now just follow the brasses into the choregraphy.
"Back To Africa" released on Patchwork records will be available in any good music store near you for september 2008. But you've been warned, this is some highly addictive material, so listen at your own risks.
After having worked for several years for the pess editorials, Rodolphe Minuit decided to go back to school again and entered the C.I.M.( Jazz and current music School) in 1994 in order to study musical arrangement and orchestration.
It is there that he met Lionel Cugnon, the flute player, that introduced him later to Stefano Piredda for the Elefant'O project. Then he entered the music Academy and studied harmony and counterpoint for 5 years.
In 2000 he sets up Paris Rose & Resistance with Rico Ganive (from the french team « Les Innocent ») but unfortunately the electro pop project was never born. At that time He is then both a guitar teacher and a composer. Published by Kosinus in 2003, with heterogeneous specialities : the depressing pop "Dark Drama CD" and french music "café de Paris CD". Là j'arrive pas à traduire (surtout franco francaise lol)
He also performs on stage as a guitar player, in bands such as Kassandra", "Solia & Rodolphe" and more recently "Rosa" that he set up with Sandrine Roche.
In 2005 he meets up with Stefano aka Elefant'O in which he expresses new talents for writing (Rhodes, Bass and Guitar).
After more than 15 years of classical music studies and the first prize of CNR (Academy of Aubervilliers), Lionel Cugnon joined the CIM (Centre International de Musicothérapie - Ecole de jazz et musiques actuelles) in 1996, in which in experienced, troughout other musical styles, the different sounds of his instrument.
He has only been qualified in the ARPEJ, French school of jazz and afro american music. Composer, perfomer and teacher, he then turns to a more technological way : the Internet.
He is now a multimedia producer graduated in Paris 8 Les Gobelins, and works in a communication agency.
This new way of life gives him the opportunity to express himself with maturity on several parisian scenes. He meets up the Elefant'O project in 2005, in which he expresses his talent as a flute player.
He started out in music at the age of 7 years old, but it is in 1996 that he found out a caribbean training that opened his mind to his professionnal destiny.
He then met Julien Jabre et DJ Deep with whom he created "The DEEP THE FIRE EP"for the single DOM DOM JUMP"recorded in the studios of Radio Nova, a radio that was to become a classic for House Music performed by the greatest Djs.
This success led him to meet St-Germain, Jocelyn Brown, Sandy Rivera ...
In 2001 he met Aqua Bassino for the release of his first album Beats'n'Bobs (F Communications)and made a world tour with him until 2OO4 (Europe, South America, South Asia)
More recently (March 2005), a remix of DOM DOM JUMP has been released on Label Deeply Rooted House with a remix of Frankie Feliciano and DJ DEEP,followed by a sing with « flute traversiere » for the band Soulkadelic.
In 2006 he took part again to an album of Aqua Bassino, "Rue de Paris" , that brings him to meet Elefant'O. He then contributed to "Back To Africa" and thus rejoined Lionel and Rodolphe on the Elefant'Oproject. This was the beginning of a new journey.
