Les Perdus
Mathis Desmier
on drums
Mathis DESMIER began playing drums at the Courbevoie conservatory in france, then moved to Puteaux in 2012. He discovered classical percussion a few years later, in Alexandre Bérard's class.
He joined the specialised music program at the Jean de la fontaine high school in 2020, and Christophe Bredeloup and Benoît Masson's percussion class at the regional conservatory of Boulogne-Billancourt.
longing to play jazz and improvised music, he began playing drums in several bands and formations. At the same time, in 2023, he joined the Brassage Brass Band, completing his training with orchestral skills.
It was during his high school years that he met those who he would form Les Cas Perdus with.
Having ONLY KNOWN classical music, they decided to get together to explore a new world based on their love for the groove.
@mathisdesmier
Jesse Guttridge
on Bass and Vocals
Jesse Guttridge is a filmmaker and musician from Vancouver, Canada. He began his cello studies at the age of four at the Vancouver Conservatory of Music.
Over the years, he has continued his cello and vocal training with a number of renowned teachers, first through specialised in music schooling system and then at the conservatories in Aix-en-Provence and Paris, France.
Outside his classes, he had a childhood fully immersed in jazz, funk, soul and rock. he felt like playing more of what he loved, hugely inspired by artists such as Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, The Band, The Beatles, and then increasingly turning to a harder repertoire with Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine and Queens of the Stone Age. In 2015, he received his first bass, and taught himself to play.
After several years working alone or with his father, Jesse met Nino Kok and Mathis Desmier in high school and formed a band in 2021. Over the next few years, after several concerts and through their studies, the band faced many changes, difficulties and the departure of certain members. But the connection remains strong and unchanged between the three friends, who soon meet their beloved Antoine Pommepuy, with whom they made the band you know today.
@jesse_gjj
Nino Kok
on guitar and keys
Nino Kok was born in Paris in 2004. The son of musician parents, he learned to play the piano at the age of 5 at his elementary school in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, and later attended the 13th arrondissement conservatory , where he met his piano teacher Valentina Igoshina. In 2016, he entered the Rognoni Middle school for children specialised in stage arts, then the Jean de La Fontaine High School in 2019, where he met Jesse Guttridge and Mathis Desmier. He is now studying for a degree in Musicology at the Sorbonne, alongside his studies at the regional Conservatory of Paris, from which he has received multiple diplomas.
From 2016 to 2020, he took part in a number of national and international piano competitions, including the Claude Kahn, Young Opus, “Concours Musical de France” and Nikolai Rubinstein competitions, winning several prizes.
Around 2020, he broadened his musical horizons by playing his mother's guitar for the first time, discovering rock bands such as Queen and The Beatles, as well as contemporary sound explorers like Radiohead and Muse, and later jazz and funk. today, experiments by mixing all these aspects of music.
@nino_k0
Antoine Pommepuy
on guitar
Antoine Pommepuy began classical guitar at the Guy Dinoird conservatory in Fontenay-sous-Bois, France; then did a final year at the Regional conservatory of Rueil-Malmaison, before devoting himself entirely to the electric guitar. He discovered his passion for blues and rock through many artists, including Eddie Van Halen, Gary Moore and David Gilmour.
In 2022, he joined his first hard-rock band, CHARGE, with whom he played with at the renowned Supersonic club In paris in January of 2023. He joined les Cas Perdus later that same year. He later played in a show organised by the Francis Poulenc Conservatoire in the 16th arrondissement, paying tribute to both the eponymous composer and Freddie Mercury.
He met Les Cas Perdus through the group's guitarist and keyboardist, Nino Kok. Nino introduced him to the jam at the p’tit Jo, where he first shared his love of improvisation and rock with the band of which he is now a member.
@seightisrockin