line up

• Abel Aidasso (vocals, trumpet)
• Auguste Aidasso (vocals, drums)
• C. Gervais Kpadonou (vocals, drums)
• C. Samson Tohossoussi (vocals, trumpet, leader)
• El Hadj Abdou Karim (vocals, trombone)
• Gildas Dehoumon (vocals, flugelhorn)
• Sidoine Sodonon (tuba)

• country:
  Benin
• style(s):
  Brass Jazz
• label:
  CybearSonic
• type:
  Band, Composer/Songwriter
• gender:
  male
• instrumentation:
  instrumental, vocal
• artist submitted by:
  CybearSonic

The Alle'sTones band was formed in early July 2003, with aims to enhance the traditional musical culture of Benin, like their elder brothers Gangbe Brass Band.

Alle'sTones is composed of 7 musicians from Benin. When younger, they all attended various choirs and were members of various folk groups (Toba Tchinkoume, Kaka, Zinli ...) other bands, before meeting to let the sound of their Brass Band fly.

Benin has a wealth and diversity of wonderful traditional music. This provides an inexhaustible source of inspiration and a cultural treasure little or not used so far.

Alle'sTones has created a musical style of its own, at the crossroads of Beninese rhythms and jazz, mixing cultures and sounds. Thus, Benin percussion (tam-tam, gong, gourd ...) meet the modern wind instruments (trumpet, trombone, flugelhorn, tuba ...).

The majority of musical compositions is complemented by lyrics written by the group. The themes of the songs cover topics from our contemporary society to feelings of our time: the children rights, love, solidarity, hope ... but also starvation.

Their 1st album was recorded in March 2010 in Cotonou and contains 13 original tracks (2 instrumentals and 11 songs). More songs are already available for the next step...

["alle" means "bird" in the fon language.]

Links

• MySpace
• Facebook
• ReverbNation
• Official blog/site
• Listen on SoundCloud (streaming)