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Rockumentary:
The term rockumentary is a "portmanteau" word denoting a documentary about rock music or its musicians.
Rolling Stone magazine's first use of the term "rockumentary" was in 1969.
Tiwayo is the name of the project I launched some time ago now.
It’s the nickname a friend in the US gave me during my stay
He called me the “young/old”
Because of my raspy voice and my face which looks younger
I kept the initials in English which gives you T.Y.O and I wrote it literally: Tiwayo.
I needed to invest myself fully
Try to defend my compositions
The mates I play with
And all this universe which is influenced by Soul Rock and Reggae
And try to make a generous cuisine out of it.
Soul Rock and Blues
For me all these music are tightly linked
There’s nothing between them even in Reggae.
We recognize Reggae by the Reggae riff
If I play you
You tell yourself it's Reggae
If I play you the same chords
You’ll tell me it's Blues
But in fact they’re the same harmonies which are shared in this music.
Finally when we play Blues/Rock
We just put a bit more distortion
And it’s the energy that changes
But it’s the same music
I learned a lot by jamming
Notably at the beginning with my mates when I started playing guitar
We were a few guitarists starting at the same time formed a band
We spent entire afternoons playing together.
Later when I looked a bit more into Blues via the famous Blues jams
With musicians getting together to share moments of improvisation
It’s true that it’s something that I like to.
I’ve been on the road a bit
Started in New York then to Chicago
Went down South to the Blues motherland
Nashville Memphis New Orleans also.
There I met a lot of locals.
It’s great to be able to jam with those people
Because it’s their music.
It’s very important when immersing yourself in that universe
Generally they’re really happy
To go and meet them and when you arrive: “Hey there!”
Because you speak their language.
So yes I had great jams over there to!
We’re here in the countryside
Far from Paris
The place where I “cooked” my album
Peacefully no one around
And you can take the time to do things at your own pace.
It is a need that I have
Mostly it’s a form of ideal
Because when I’m here I am simply happy.
To take the road alone towards the unknown
It’s a quest for freedom.
Nina Simone of which I’m a big fan
In an interview where she talks about freedom
She gets asked what freedom means to her
She said “no fear” to have no fear.
It’s a very interesting definition of freedom
That I find magnificent.
Everyday we lay down what scares us
We try to overcome them
Either by creating travelling meeting or loving
We find a form of freedom
And also security.
Clearly my guitars are my wives.
Actually I often tell myself that it’s wonderful
It… well you can be polygamous with guitars
So I have a few.
So I have this little Epiphone 339 which I love
I also have the Sheraton which is the same but bigger.
This one being smaller is more enjoyable for playing live
It’s a Les Paul format
I love it and play it a lot
A very Bluesy/Rock sounding guitar.
I fitted a Bigsby a sort of vibrato here it’s very beautiful.
Guitar wise all the album is based at the start on a Jaguar sound.
These Fender guitars are a little bit left out
Next to the Telecaster and Stratocaster which are more iconic.
A Jaguar looks like a gas factory with all its switches.
This one’s cool because it’s got Humbucker microphones
Unlike a normal Jaguar which has single coil microphones
So here we have a fatter sound which makes it easy to use anytime anywhere;
Very Bluesy
I’m really comfortable here.