Le Peuple de lHerbe | nl

A group from Lyon, France, formed in 1997. The band mixes hip hop with drum & bass, rock, dub, jungle, jazz and trip hop. They are famous for their hypnotizing live acts. After 2 albums "triple 000+" and "P.H. Test Two" ( 100 000 copies together), Le Peuple de l'Herbe came back in early 2005 with their much awaited third album "Cube". This is their first work featuring British rapper JC001 as full band member, after prior collaborations as MC and with his former band UK Apache. A new evolution for a band created by 2 hip hop and jungle...

A master of almost any blown reeeds, Malherbe served his time in the jazz bars of Paris in the early 60s listening to the emigre American maestros, before decamping for inner-spacial expansion to Deya in Majorca. Here he met up with Australian surrealist poet and ex-Soft MAchine guitarist Daevid Allen, forming a working association through the band Gong, that continues to this day(2006). After serving almost a decade with the varying incarnations of this band, culminating with Pierre Moerlin's Gong in 1980, Malherbe moved back permanently back to Paris and picked up with the French jazz-rock scene. However wider horizons...