French rock band Matmatah came together in 1996 when then-student and guitarist
Tristan Nihouarn met fellow student and guitarist Cédric Floc'h in the city of
Brest, Brittany. They decided to form a chanson and guitar duo called the
Tricards Twins and honed their sound by playing in local bars. before crossing
paths with bassist Eric Digaire and drummer Jean-François Paillard at one of
their shows and forming Matmatah, named after the village in Tunisia in which
Tristan Nihouarn had grown up. The band garnered attention for their first two
songs "Lambé An Dro" and "Les Moutons" (...