WEENDO / Members
NATHANAEL BUIS
Drummer Graphic Designer Music ProducerI started playing drums at 6 and I studied with a teacher in a local small school for 2 years.I continued on my own. I was rocked by the blues/Gospel and rock music in my youth. I discovered other music styles when I entered the music school “M.A.I” : jazz, metal, jungle, fusion. In July 2005, I left the MAI, qualified and found a real passion for playing on stage and sharing music among bands ! From that moment, I’ve been working on interpretation, I’ve tried to develope my own musical style through gigs and studio experiences. I wanted to be part of Weend’ô to enable me to express my deep feelings with large musical ambiances and offer more than s aimple rhythmic set of 3’30 ! MUSICAL INFLUENCES : Bands : Porcupine Tree, Toto, Incubus, Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blues Brothers, Robben Ford, Marcus Miller, Rage Against the Machines, Pat Meteny, Delirious, MuteMath, Pillar, U2, ColdPlay, Satrianni, Dream Theater, et plein d’autres… MUSICIANS : Jojo Mayer, Gavin Harrison, Mike Portnoy, Chad Smith, Jeff Porcarro, Nathaniel Townsley, Peter Erskine, Dave Weckl, Mike Portnoy, David Grail, Gabriel Alonso, Vinnie Colaiuta, Franck Agulhon, Olivier Baldisserra, et plein d’autres aussi… WHAT PUSHES ME TO GO ON : My faith in God, my wife, the will to accomplish my destiny, what I was born for. WHAT I HATE THE MOST : Proud people, big headed people, Tendonitis, the fan-club of Chritophe Maé !!! MY FAVOURITE MOVIES : Star Wars, Superman, Jaws, the movies with “Jim Carrey”, Tex Avery. MY FAVOURITE MEAL : Sausage, Delicatessen, Sausage, Duck Breast, Sausage, porc with caramel, sausage (euh, I already said that ?) EQUIPMENT ON STAGE : - DRUMS TAMA Starclassic Performer (22 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 14 / 16) - Set SABIAN HH/AAX (HH 14″, 6″, 8″, 10″, 15″, 16″, 18″, 20″, Chinese 16″)
MAXIME RAMI
Bassist MusicianI started to learn music at 15, without expecting anything special. The first guitar keys, lessons and bands with my family, rapidly convinced me and absorbed all my attention. Since I met Terence in 2006, when he played with my metal local band as a bassist, we developped a sincere relationship and after the split of my band, I became the bassist of Weend’ô. I’m a fan of all kind of music. So , Weend’ô enables me to develope metal, rock or jazz riffs. Married since September 2016, I am an active musician in several local bands, guitar/bass teacher (Audiolight Music). Nevertheless, I concentrate my musical work on Weend’ô . MUSICAL INFLUENCES : From Porcupine Tree to Dream Theater, passing by Karnivool, Incubus, Tool. WHAT PUSHES ME TO GO ON : Music, my wife, my family and my friends ! Life in one word !! WHAT I HATE THE MOST : the Morons !! MY FAVOURITE MOVIES : The lion king MY FAVOURITE MEAL : A good meal of Pasta cooked by our master “Pastalatchi” (nickname of Terence) EQUIPMENT ON STAGE : Bass designed & made by Anthony Lauberteaux, Bass GetL designed & made by Anthony Lauberteaux, Head “Markbass” multiam stereo, Baffle “Markbass”. http://www.lutherie-agen.com/site/accueil/
TERENCE NGUYEN VAN
Composer Musician GuitaristI started to play guitar when I was 16, influenced by my brother-in-law, guitarist and fan of blues rock. Thanks him I discovered all the rock family of 70′s! Led Zep, Hendrix, Zappa etc…At 18, I played both in an orchestra and local bands (playing covers). I’m a self-educated musician. What lead me to create Weend’ô is a mix of all my experiences (musical, emotional, spiritual). I wanted to convey sthing sincere with all I had deep inside. MUSICAL INFLUENCES : Jimmy Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, The 70′s, the hard rock time with Guns n’ roses, Metallica, Acdc, Queen, Scorpion and more recently Tool, Incubus, Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater. WHAT PUSHES ME TO GO ON : The will to make people’s attitudes evolve towards sincerity. I even think about proposing a new religion called “Boudhalus” : religion that might appear in a coming future gathering the adepts of Boudha, Allah and Jesus. Once established, a great part of the world would live in Peace ! WHAT I HATE THE MOST : Megalomaniac, Mythomaniac, Hypocrite people. MY FAVOURITE MOVIES : Matrix & Fight Club, they changed my look at the world. MY FAVOURITE MEAL : Duck breast with all kind of sauces. EQUIPMENT ON STAGE : Guitar Music Man JP XI, Axe FX II preamp/effects processor, Guitar Godin, guitar Fender, acoustic guitar “Art & Lutherie” , GT10 Roland, Boss wah pedal, k + electronic archer e-bow. JVM Marshall amp.
Laetitia CHAUDEMANCHE
Ad Music composer Lyricist Songwriter Synthesizer player VocalistSinging : Since I was 4, I’ve been passionate about singing ! One could say a familial genetic as my 2 grand mothers used to sing, one in Opera in Paris and the other one on radio shows and sometimes for the village parties with musicians. But they were not professional singers. My mom, when young, should have gone to a musical art school (dance and music) but she was forced to give it up when her father died. At 10, I sang for the 1st time on a school stage , in solo, following the recommandations of my professor who gave us sometimes some singing lessons. A 18, during my studies in London, I am invited to sing with a rock band and…waouh ! what an amazing experience for me ! Fire overwelmed me ! Still in London, I won a singing competition in an irish pub…This stay in England would have transformed me , I started to be aware that I had to pay attention to my voice…but I carried my Foreign language studies (in a certain way, it has sthing to do with the voice …) A 23, I met Terence and this is a real Tsunami that came out to upset my entire Life , my interior. I got a very great awareness of what my Life would turn to from now on : Music and Voice ! The bonus arrived one year after with the confirmation ,directly from Valérie Zeitoun (famous label AZ, France), that I should developp my own -latent- style. I decided to take 2 years of singing lessons and I worked on my style in live, alone. With Weend’ô and since a few years, I feel that my voice, my being push me to go further..Since 2016, I’ve been focused my work on my voice, on my interior, cos everything is interdependent ! I do hope to offer you a new vibration with the upcoming album !!! 10982088_10206566903591811_5883394021969542300_n Piano : I learnt to play piano from 12 to 14 years old. With my neighbour. she rapidly felt my passion for creation and enable me to create my own riffs at 14. But due to my studies, I had to make a choice and stopped learning and playing music. It’s Terence who pushed me to play again when we met in 2002. So I didat 23 and at 26, I created my first song “Letter to an Angel” (for my grand mother).From that time, I’ve kept on creating my own compositions and finding my style. I thank him for that, he was right ! Terence helped me to find my path : singing and playing music ! I put my heart, my soul in this new life, supported by wonderful musicians ! Weend’ô is my life project ! I do want to bequeath and dedicate that to our son Ewen, whose name is the origin of “Weend’ô” ! MUSICAL INFLUENCES : Female singers : The Gathering (with the ex-singer: Anneke van Giersbergen), I had the opportunity to meet her at the horizon rock festival in Sarlat in 2003. What an exceptionnal voice ! Vic Anselmo, Marcella Bovio, Monique from Harvest, Christina Booth from Magenta, Karen Matheson with her wonderful song “Ailein Duinn”, Loreena McKennitt, Alanis Morissette, Sinead O’Connor, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Amy Lee, Frédérika Alésina. Male singers : Daniel Tompkins, Brandon Boyd, Maynard James Keenan, Mick Moss, Ed Sheeran, Julien Rouche “Jouch”, Alan Reed. Bands : Karnivool, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Anathema, Incubus, Metallica, Massive Attack, Prince, Lenny Kravitz, Tesseract, Porcupine Tree, Pineapple Thief, Lazuli, Naïve, The Gathering, Harvest. WHAT PUSHES ME TO GO ON : Love, my family, my friends, people I’ve met by chance for whom our music brings smiles and all the supporting messages from the fans ! Of course, all my Dreams ! WHAT I HATE THE MOST : closed-minded people, hypocrisy, cowardliness, giving up without trying to fight before.. MY FAVOURITE MOVIES : Braveheart, the last of the Mohicans, Gladiator, Avatar, Matrix, Star Wars, Geisha, Australia, Seven, Legend of the Falls , the last Samouraï MY FAVOURITE MEAL : I would say “my favourite dessert” : vanilla ice-cream with melted chocolate covered by whipped cream. The french name of it is “chocolat liégeois”. Also, I adore sweet and sour food. EQUIPMENT ON STAGE : HF micro BETA 87, keyboard Studiologic Numanano, 1 MAC with mainstage software.
