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Damien Cluzel

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Damien Cluzel (Lyon France 1968) settled in Amsterdam in 1987 for about 15 years and studied the guitar at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. He worked in the Netherlands from 1988 to 2010 with different groups of the Trytone collective as Man Bites Dog, Ninsk , Tetzepi and Munzruh. In 1999, following numerous stays in Addis-Abeba he started working on Ethiopian music under the leadership of Francis Falceto with the band Jump to addis (éthiopiques 15) Back to France in the noughties, he has been an active member of the Compagnie 4000 led by Romain Dugelay since then . He is leading Ukandanz with Asnake Gebreyes ( Ethiopian crunch music) and playing with Pixvae (Latin Core), An'pagay (Electric Maloya), Polymorphie (Comtemporary jazz) and Kouma (Math rock) Damien has played and recorded with many outstanding musicians such as Mahmoud Ahmed, Chris Speed, Genet Masrasha, Louis Sclavis, Girum Mezmur, the Amsterdam klezmer Band, Ramon Lopez...

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