Collaborators, instead!
Peter «No Kidding» Jackson on all drums - JES ..bords in Won't We and guitar solo in Gordian Knot - S. Lapointe on fluegelhorn in Last Letter - Seb Gignac on percussions in Fire 4 U - JossB on everything else
Influences
Elvis at 4, Pag at 5, KISS at 6, then I went through the whole disco and early pop dance of the 80's while all my aunts and uncles got married... Personnal All-Time-Favorites: Peter Hammill (VDGG), David Sylvian, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, King Crimson (every line-up), Peter Gabriel (Genesis), Prince, Bjork, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Tom Waits, Kate Bush, Blind Willie Johnson, Richard Strauss, Trent Reznor (NIN), Tool, Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Audioslave), Mark Hollis (Talk Talk later incarnation), Neil Young, Django Reinhardt, Mike Oldfield, Ralph Towner (Oregon), Mark Bolan (T-Rex), Love and Rockets, Arcadia, Elvis Costello, ZZ Top, Alice In Chains, Mick Ronson, Cap'tain Beefheart, Adrian Belew, Anton Dvorak, Eugene Ysaye, Ledbelly, James Cotton, Reverend Gary Davis, Sonny Boy Williamson ("Rice" Miller), Led Zepplin, Pryia Thomas... are some that come to mind at first... I'll put some more soon if you let me think about it!
Sounds Like
Every song on the album shows their affinities with the bodywork of someone influential to me, not caricaturing, not even really a "pastiche", but clear signs they definitively been through to me. As an example: the Won't We song playing on is that kind of tribute to Neil Young. Last Letter, bows to David Sylvian for the music, and towards Elvis Costello for the lyrics, the Juliet Letters project, of course. Fire 4 U is a little extra, primal-loungic-blues, just a little something to groove to.
Musician/singer/writer/composer presently working on my 1st CD. Fascinated by music since an early age but unable to really engage in this realm before my late teens... After being deceived by science, discouraged by the perspectives in psychoanalysis, made a M.A. in Litterature. Then, worked on songwriting and keeping a band together... I finally had enough of managing a 6-piece group and now enjoy the new technological possibilities, working in my home studio with collaborators.
Comme c'est merveilleux de pouvoir enfin t'entendre sur myspace!!! Ton talent peut désormais être apprécié par un plus grand nombre d'amateur de bonne musique. Bon succès Joss
