Awek - Long Distance (2017) Lossless

The French blues band Awek is well known for more than 20 years. 'Long Distance' was recorded in Austin, TX and in Toulouse and Angers, France. An homage to those artists who have influenced the band (Johnny Guitar Watson, Jimmy McCracklin and Muddy Waters. Bernard Sellam - voc/gtr, Stephane Bertolino - hca Olivier Trebel - drums/perc, Joel Ferron - bass. Special guests: Fread Kaplan, Derek O'Brien, Julien Brunetaud a.o.

Awards in France and the USA: voted Best French Band in 2004 and 2005, Cognac Blues Passions Award in 2009, Finalist at IBC Memphis (USA) in 2008, Best Harmonist Award at IBC (USA) in 2011 , first French band at EBC in Berlin (Germany) in 2011, several times number 1 at Power Blues, album ranking by the Collective of Radios Blues (CRB) ...

Invited in many prestigious festivals such as "Jazz in Montreal" (Quebec), "Jazz in Vienna", "Jazz in Marciac", "Cognac Blues Passions", "Cahors Blues Festival", "Blues on Seine", "Nancy Jazz Pulsation "," Tanjazz "in Tangier (Morocco)," Playing With Fire "in Omaha (USA), and many others ...
Opening of legendary artists like BB King, The Blues Brothers, The Yardbirds, John Mayall, Rickie Lee Jones, Zucchero, Texas ...

This eloquent record tells us a lot about their tenacity. Their book "20 years of Blues" is a testimony of this beautiful slice of life, but the adventure continues with among others, a new album in project ... More present than ever in 2015, our 4 fighters tirelessly pursue their path, the one they chose by instinct and passion 20 years ago, in 1994 ...