“5” is a fresh and addictive electro-blues-funk record full of hit singles and high energy. Here you will find a happy meeting between the acoustic and the electronic, a melting pot that combines the roots of black music (blues, funk, hip hop, soul...) with the power of a rock band and the poetry of folk music. A sensational melange of rhythm, bright melodies and refinement.

Mathis Haug was grown between Germany and France, although when you listen to his unique deep voice you would believe he is a black guy from the Mississippi. Enchanted by pre-war blues and jazz, he has studied the roots of popular music from Bessie Smith, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Billie Holliday or the jazz electric guitar pioneer Charlie Christian to Bob Dylan, Tom Waits or the French guitar player Jacques Higelin. With the only companion of his guitar and voice, Mathis has toured all around Europe: more than 700 concerts are behind him. On the road, he added new sounds to his style (funk, folk, rock, etc) and founded new travel mates: The Mathematiks, a experimented bunch of musicians that brought dancing rhythms, electronic atmospheres and fresh sounds to his music.

During 2002 and 2003, the band plays in dozens of blues and jazz european festivals (Festival de Mirande, Festival Rhino-Jazz, Blues Sur Seine, Festival Comac...), surprising everyone with its original updating of tradition. The prestigious Festival Jazz à Vienne grant them with the Talent Jazz Prize, thanks to what they record their first album, "5", that PUEBLO RECORDS has now released worldwide.

“5” is an amazing puzzle of different times, a trip in which the twentieth century music reaches the twenty first century sounds: from the intimate Dylan's style folk ballad, through the Delta Blues, to the groovy HipHop, the psychedelia and the trip hop ambiences. From Beck, Ben Harper or Gomez to Soul Coughing, G-Love And The Special Sauce or Corey Harris, not forgetting the preceding Sly & The Family Stone, Prince, Marvin Gaye or Parliament-Funkadelic.

But beyond all this influences, there is the personality and talent of this "posmodern bluesman" that sings to sex, soccer or war with humour, poetry and his inimitable voice.