Louie Prez

Doug and Leo are playing a duo gig at the Boite in Nth Fitzroy 8pm Saturday July 23rd. We’d have Ray along but this gig has a strictly – acoustic no drums – policy so we thought we’d use it as an opportunity to present some of the new material for another album we are [...]

Ray, Doug and Leo will be doing a set in the Botanical Gardens at 11am as part of the Castlemaine State Festival on Sunday April 10th. The theme is Global Gardens so there’ll be West African rhythm, Brazilian guitar and some Indian ragas mixed together with jazz groove.

See how the band set up the idea and props for the cover of their first album – SCAM. Set to the hauntingly beautiful melodies and groove of the first track on their album. Ray Pereira on percussion, Leo Dale on alto sax and Doug DeVries on guitar. Photography by Phil Greenwood. You can download [...]

Limelight ABC Music Arts Culture magazine March 2010 edition Louie Prez SCAM   * * * * Louie Prez – remember that name! This excellent Melbourne trio shows with its cornucopia of delightful but contrasting Brazilian-inspired Rhythmic originals, with a West African touch, that it is a new force to be reckoned with in Australian music. [...]

We are doing a gig at the Suzuki Night market at the Victoria Market in Melbourne on Wednesday November 25th. There’s a couple of stages there and we are playing at the surround stage in the top shed in the middle of all of the food stalls. I’ve done a couple of gigs there over [...]