SLANG

Slang celebrates its 25th anniversary! ( 2024-25 )
A band whose motto is never to stop at the barriers between styles, Slang have always created their musical universe by drawing on jazz, rock and music from all over the world, so that each track is a unique cocktail. Their inspiration has thus led them to sketch out a world as we finally come into contact with it every day: mixed.
"Born at the dawn of the new millennium, Slang skims the subtleties of the last century to build a resolutely modern, adventurous and exciting language. By traversing the multicultural prism of so-called 'ethnic' music, the band's pieces choose not to choose, carefully avoiding being boxed into a straitjacket that's too narrow, too rigid. Slang's music wouldn't stand for it, for it's from this ingenuous decision that innovation is born.
In this centrifuge of the senses, the heart of the atom, jazz, decants to accelerate the fusion, infusing the vital, energetic drive, the soul of this music without anchors... Led by François Garny, Manuel Hermia and Michel Seba, all three unleashed, Slang rolls against the grain, swallowing the asphalt without ever braking, voluntarily taking steep paths, dangerous paths."

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"Octaves de la Musique 2005" award (as the "most significant talent of the past season" / jazz category).

A new trio, which categorizes itself as "Ethno-Coltranian-Rock", in which each one of the three individuals brings his own ideas to develop a group concept. Jazz, funk, world music, rock, with special attention to the textures and moods.

Since their first CD, "Los Locos", SLANG have already made a great name for themselves. With each concert, their music and their audience grow.
With "Save the chilis", they pursue their relentless drive and add a much wider range of sounds to their own, very personal -sound-. This is purely their own, and has created its own genre, -REC-, (the French acronym for Ethno-Coltranian Rock), an exquisite blend of rock, ethnic music and jazz (particularly the music of John Coltrane).

One of the big surprises in relation to their first CD is that Slang sing on several pieces, and this is certainly going to open up a few new doors ... With "Save the chilis", Slang pushes out the frontiers of REC - wider, deeper and defintely hotter !

Slang released a new CD in 2005 : "It's on the Way".