Pseudonym:
SE7EN (7)
Birthdate:
14/05/1983
Place of residence:
Boulogne Billancourt (92) France


Played instruments:
- Lead and rythmic guitars
- Synthetizer, piano
- Bass guitar
- Drums (beginner)

Material used:
- Jackson Kelly KE3-R guitar with Duncan Design microphone
- Ibanez JS100 Custom guitar with EMG 81 microphone
- Ovation Electroacoustic guitar
- Tanglewood Warrior II bass guitar
- Marshall Valvestate 8080 Amplifier
- Kustom KBA100 X Amplifier
- Boss GT3 pedals
- Shure SM-58 microphone
- PSR 500 synthetizer
- Boss BR 532 numerical recorder
- Computer


Recording method:
Composing the music initially, I do not limit myself in a style. The whole of my influences is thus found there. I record in only one catch each instrument to keep a cohesion of the emotion inside the title. The soli are made in only one catch with the same state of mind. They are thus not written in advance but improvised at the time. The recording is done by micro catch, explaining an average quality of the sound. The battery is composed by computer and the final mix is carried out also on computer.


Influences:
They are rather varied. Since my youth, I listen to rock'n'roll (Midnight Oil, Dire Straits, Queen, etc…) and electronic music of Jean Michel Jarre. Thereafter, from the groups of Hard Rock such as Gun's and Roses, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Ugly Kid Joe, Pantera or Sepultura came to be added to it. The breaking neo metal wave, I was attached there during a time with groups like KoRn, Machine Head (at the time), Deftones, Mudvayne, Fear Factory, $lipKnot, etc... Then the opening comes on the great family from metal with melodic death/trash (Dark Tranquillity, Inflames, Soilwork, Arch Enemy,...), atmospheric (The Gathering, Tool, A Perfect Circle), Gothic (Moonspell, Dead Can Dance), power, indus, metal of Devin Townsend...
At side, I continue to listen to soft rock'n'roll (Radiohead, Muse, Jeff Buckley...) and explores other musics like Trip Hop (Morcheeba, Massive attack, Ulver,…), the unclassable Björk, modern blues (Ben Harper, Keziah Jones...), etc...


Favorite bands:
Metallica, Iron Maiden, Machine Head, Devin Townsend, Dark Tranquillity, KoRn.


Biography:
I began the music at the age of five by making electric organ. Very quickly, I turned to the synthetizer to be able to make an electronic music of the style of that of Jean Michel Jarre. The passion of the improvisation and the composition goes up on the surface when I pass to the piano blues. My musical tastes evolving to metal, I put myself only at the guitar continuously to make piano. Quickly the guitar taken the step on the piano. It enabled me to be detached from the school apprenticeship and released me. I directly put to compose without having much technique. Having made some scenes as a clavierist, I decide to initially assemble a metal band and rock'n'roll then, to be able to go up on scene. After some failures but also of the successes (1 rock band, 1 metal band), the idea of Crysalys becomes increasingly clear. I thus decide to fully devote me to it.