Renaud Louis-Servais

Renaud Louis-Servais was born in France in 1972. His father was a classical guitar player, and Renaud started playing the guitar at the age of 8.  During the next five years he joined his first hard-rock band, SENTINELLE, then several pop rock cover band with which he toured the suburbs of Paris. Attracted by virtuosity and working exclusively “by the ear” at that period, he enhanced his guitar expertise mostly by transcribing his favorite guitar players’ licks — which included Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Steve Lukather, among others.

As he grew older his musical influences became many and varied (jazz, progressive rock, jazz-rock, funk, Latin). Yes, Weather Report and the Pat Metheny Group were three major discoveries, and listening to such jazz guitarists as Pat Martino, and “fusion” guitarists like John Mc Laughlin, Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, Allan Holdsworth and Greg Howe fed his own guitar-playing style construction.

The first album ILUNA (2011), mirrored what had always been driving him musically: the pleasure to move freely between ‘metal’, progressive music, jazz and rock, with a lot of attention paid to composition and sound quality. It was entirely recorded and mixed by Steve Prestage (Gino Vannelli, Gary Moore, Peter Gabriel, Marc Bolan). Three tracks from that album reached semi-final stages at the prestigious International Songwriting Competition (ISC).

Fond of musical pedagogy, Renaud Louis-Servais has also taught the guitar to more than 400 students in 20 years. In 2013, he taught one of his young students, Tina S (13 y.o.), the Eddie Van Halen “Eruption” solo — and Tina’s video quickly became a huge hit, reaching more than 7 million views within a few weeks.

He made also several videos demonstrating guitar solo covers on his YouTube channel (more than 140.000 views). He is usually asked by music schools and festivals to give some guitar master-classes in numerous domains (improvisation, harmony, musical theory), and more and more often asked by web guitar sites like Guitare Live (France) or RiffState (USA) to film educational guitar videos for them. He is now working on the second RLSG album, coming end 2014.

Renaud endorses Tom Anderson Guitarworks and Two Notes Audio Engineering.

YouTube channel : http://www.youtube.com/renaudls

Alain Bidot-Naude

Alain Bidot-Naude tried different instruments before finding his path at 13 when he picked up his first drum sticks. Initially taught by local music teachers, he then studied at l’École Agostini in Bordeaux (where he graduated with a first prize). His influences are John Scofield, Chick Corea, Weather Report, Steps Ahead, Uzeb... He played in several groups, including Irrintzina with which he toured his native Basque country for five years. Having moved to Paris at the end of 1999, he joined ILUNA, coming up with the band’s name which is a reference to its Basque origins. He played in very different bands, like Big Mama, Macqueen, After Beat….

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Aurel Ouzoulias

Aurélien « Aurel » Ouzoulias went to music at the age of 15 playing in rock and metal bands. Early in his 17, drumming became his main activity.

After few gigs and recordings with musicians from Paris, he decided to go to Nancy to enter the Music Academy International (M.A.I) school of music. In 2012 Aurel released his first solo album "Playground", whic had very good international reviews.

Aurel collaborates with Satan Jokers since 2010, Chi Coltrane since 2009 and Mörglbl (Christophe Godin) since 2007. He  also worked with many artists like Zull Fx, Ron « Bumblefoot » Thal, Paul Gilbert (Mr big) and Guthrie Govan.

In 2014, Renaud Louis-Servais contacts him after watching some of his YouTube videos and asks him to work together on the next RLSG album. A new adventure begins...

Aurel plays on Tama drums (JP), Vater drumsticks (USA) and Meinl cymbales (DE).

Website : www.aurelienouzoulias.com

YouTube : www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aurel+ouzoulias

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Henri Dorina

Having tried the guitar, Henri Dorina finally settled for the bass at 20. His influences are many: Caribbean music – where his roots are – jazz, blues, funk then jazz-rock, listening to Stanley Clarke in particular. During the last twenty years, he has worked in studio with a large number of artists (Rido Bayone, David Koven, Peter Kingsberry, Bill Deraime, Art of soul) and supported a wide range of others on stage – Faudel, Rachid Bahri, Charlélie Couture, Moktar Samba, les Natives, Romane, Princess Erika, Manu Dibango... He regularly hosts jam-sessions at the Baiser Salé jazz-bar in Paris.).

Christophe Cravero

Born into a family of musicians, Christophe Cravero entered the Marseille Conservatoire at the age of eight, studying viola, orchestral conducting and musical analysis. He won a first prize at sixteen. When his parents moved to Paris for music, he continued his studies at the Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Conservatoire, where he earned a second gold medal in viola at seventeen.

Christophe first encountered jazz on the piano at thirteen and began composing at seventeen. In 1993, he started performing his own music in Paris clubs. At nineteen, he began work on his first album. Eleven musicians, including Jean-Marie Ecay and Jean-Marc Jafet, joined him to record thirteen colourful, eclectic compositions, all named after birds.

He also shared memorable musical moments with Didier Lockwood, accompanying him on piano and violin at several concerts, and later became his assistant at the Didier Lockwood Music Centre (CMDL). Christophe has toured with Billy Cobham, Etienne M’Bappé and Sanseverino.

Christophe plays Yamaha pianos.

Website: www.christophecravero.com

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