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Dom Hutton- Sleeping at the Wheel.
L'ex-chanteur de Kensington - an Englishman in Paris - livre une british pop concerned et mélodieuse en guitares à l'aune de son french band au résultat raffiné, on pense à Prefab Sprout et on danse avec sa pinte du stout.
- Album review (french)
Dom Hutton - Sleeping at the Wheel
Chanteur et compositeur, Dom Hutton, ancien leader de groupe Kensington (deux albums, l'un en 2003 et l'autre en 2004), nous présente son premier album solo.Vivant aujourd'hui en France, mais originaire de Sheffield en Angleterre, la musique de Dom Hutton tire ses couleurs de ce croisement géographique entre pop acoustique et rock éléctrisé. On notera ainsi des influences allant de Radiohead à Police, en passant par Richard Ashcroft et Paul Weller.
AVIS DE LA REDACTION
...Le résultat est surprenant. Bravo. - Album review (french)
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A NEW ALBUM IS PLANNED FOR RELEASE IN THE FALL 2013.
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SLEEPING AT THE WHEEL
Released in March 2008.
Track listing:
1. Not My World
2. Live Tv
3. Blind Man
4. Sleeping Dogs
5. Falling
6. Home
7. Little piece of you
8. Another Day
9. The end of the World
10. This time next year.
(c) words and music by Dom Hutton
Songs from this album appear on:
- BlackBerry products/ commercials by RIM
- International compilation "360° Music from Across the Nations " on Rawfish Records (Manchester UK).
- webradio Click n'Rock playlist and other webradios.
- Album available on itunes.
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COLONEL MUSTARD AND THE CANDLESTICK
Kensington
(Released in 2004 on MOSAICMUSIC DISTRIBUTION)
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Born in Sheffield, England, started piano at the age of 5. At the age of 14, he saved enough pocket money to buy his my first electric guitar eager to enter in the worlds of Andy Summers, Eddie Van Halen and a new guitarist from Ireland called "Edge".
Through his teenage years and he played guitar in several local Sheffield bands, but it was during his college years at Coventry University, when he was supposed to be studying Electronic Engineering that he preferred to study playing guitar in bars and clubs. He almost didn't graduate!, but his guitar playing had come along way!
A romantic meeting with a french girl gave him the crazy idea to emigrate to France where he formed the band Indigo Stories. ("Somewhere between Pat Metheny and Sting" - his 2 big influences at the time).
He started to write his own songs and by the time he realized he was never going to become a guitar hero, it no longer mattered: he discovered he could sing and from this moment on it became clear that it was the 'singer-songwriter' road from now on.
Inspired conciously or unconciously by the vast and varied british music scene from the 70's and the 80's and, as any English musician growing up in the "post-Beatles-era", thier influence (especially McCartney's melodies) would become an invisible but very present source of his inspiration. As was the Police, whose sophisticated musicianship and timeless classics was not a bad source of inspiration either.
He forms Kensington on 2002. An Anglo french four piece, mixing gritty Brit Rock with more sophisticated "French touch" electro textures.
Kensington released 2 albums over 2003 -2004 and signed to the french distributor Mosaic.
Over the next 3 years they quickly established a strong live set and toured essentially in France with a few stints in the UK. Generated a local buzz in Paris and french press reviews included "Le Parisien", "Ouest France" and "Home Studio� .
Some of Kensington's songs got airplay and included in compliations and got a couple of french TV promo slots.
Kensington played their last gig of their tour in the Grand Rex in Paris, in Nov 2005 supporting Norwiegen AHA on the french leg of their 'comeback' tour..
In 2006, he decided to pursue a solo project and began writing material for the new album. The album "Sleeping at the Wheel" was released in 2008 marked a change in direction reflecting a deeper approach to songwriting than the happy-go lucky Kensington days.
Despine being a solo project, he quickly managed to interest some of Paris's finest musiciens to join him. Zizou Sadki on bass, Fred DegrĂŠ on Drums and Fabrice Ragot on guitar.
After a stint working on various collaboration projects and film score work, he is now working on a new album to be released in the fall of 2013.
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