Back on The Hub project (see post from January 5th ) with its two protagonists and Hubert ZeroSix Yarol Poupaud. Hubert and asked and talkative. Yarol speaks louder and laugh a lot especially. Joker, he tried to introduce a coin into the ear your servant. "Bah, what? My Head Is A Jukebox. This is where you put the pieces? I want to listen to Eddie Cochran! . It was especially great fun. Meeting ...
How did your collaboration?
Hubert It has crossed several times. It has the distinction of attending places of taste (laughs). Good taste to attend the places to be. The first time we met, we had the opportunity to play together. It was at lovamour ...
Yarol: At the hotel. The love hotel. In Lova Moore (laughs)! In the bedroom!
Hubert When I talk about location of taste ... No, seriously it was the inauguration of love hotel, there was a party and we had the opportunity to play live. I keep a great memory of the passage where Yarol started on drums while I played my usual thing. He spent three years later before it gets back to work seriously. After my first album, Super Roots, with a rudimentary technique and bias play only traditional music myself, I wanted to do an album a little more product. I also started working on songs. We have a mutual friend of Tony Truant Wampas who advised me to work with Yarol. Yarol is unusual enough to send short messages. I sent him two or three pieces and he said it's cool going on at home, I want to hear more ... Yarol first started on bass and bass drum and c is that day that we invented the formula that is our live and tear the most.
Yarol: I found Hubert played guitar really well. He had all the Delta planes, picking and everything. Basically, I wanted him bite his plans (laughs). COME TO THE HOUSE THAT I'LL JUST PICKS YOUR PLANS !!!!!
Hubert is our love for Mississippi John Hurt, which has brought us closer. What we do in the end it does not look like Mississippi John Hurt to ...
In fact it was a will for you to move from a solo project produced a music more?
Yarol: It is I who einkorn yeah ...
Hubert I just let it happen. There was not a particular project: "I want to an album with bass, drums ... I would not have believed. The project started walking. The song that defines our approach is "what do you think you'll do." This is the first we did. There is both a guitar and a voice Yarol super roots and brought this with rhythmic bass and drums. That day we said we did the African blues.
Yarol: Pleonasm total ...
Hubert It looked like even more of African music that his Americanized version.
Yarol: We did not even make a record ... Hubert went to the house we did a song. And then we met again two weeks later and we made another ... The recording took place over nearly a year of sessions with right to left like that. One afternoon, an evening ... Then after a while we thought: "And so we say an album here!
Hubert There were even two at that time but was removed titles! (Laughs)
Yarol, how you have melted into the universe of Hubert?
Yarol: It was relatively easy by what has same references, one hears the same music, we know the same stuff ... I, I melted in there having fun. It is the goal of the game At the beginning Hubert told me: From the low on yourself? The bass?
Hubert Exactly, I did not want low ...
Yarol: And then it was, yeah it would still have more bass (laughs) ...
Hubert I, I says he can offer me anything he wants except the bass! And of course the first thing he said is: we'll put the bass!
Yarol: I bought an old Gibson bass that had a little sister on the guitar that Hubert was playing so ... I told him: "This is not a low worry, it did only four strings! (Laughs) It's a guitar "serious" (laughs)!
Hubert When I heard that it gave the groove ...
Yarol: In fact, there is an initial step around the low that was interesting in that all contemporary blues bands, the Black Keys, White Stripes, John Spencer Blues Explosion, is passed low. It was frowned upon. I would say bah, we are going to deliver ...
Hubert Gamin I loved the Cramps and there was no bass. I though the idea that we could make music without bass is not for lack of trying ...
Yarol: What the anti-racism low??
Hubert I had great friends, very good bass players who had said very coldly that he was out of question that I was playing with them because I wanted more bass ... And then me we Having reapply with Yarol ...
The French songs I liked very much. There is a big blues scene in France but almost nobody sings in French ...
Hubert It came to me by actually ... Yarol
Yarol: LOW AND FRENCH, GO! ! (Laughs)
Hubert After the bass, French was the second thing I had planned not to do ... But the pleasure of composing in his mother tongue is something incomparable. There is no comparison. On the scale of values songwriting, eventually, if I could only compose songs in French and who speak to me ... it has made a lot even if we have kept only two on the album ... It's not easy to ring the French.
Yarol: In this kind of music was very close to a reference in Cajun. I'm a fan of zydeco. When you listen Clifton Chenier, there's the French in the country ... And all of Quebec for years 30 and 40, there's amazing stuff ... So it's possible, references are there ...
There is a like that song on the album "The One I Miss" ...
Hubert: Yes you a real web "It's gonna be hard / The One I Miss" ...
Yarol: Yeah with the accordion. I thought it brought a little more (he snaps his fingers) to the album these two songs in French. When you have something to say as much say in your native language ... It was not insurmountable, however. If we had failed we would have made an album in English.
In the 90 are often advised young bands to sing in French to be signed. Now we have more more young bands singing in English ...
Yarol: is going back and forth between one permanent sign of English groups, we sign more ... There is a gap that has opened. I do not mean that Phoenix is a special case. In fact, we realize that in these groups there, The Do or Moriarty, the singers are not speaking at the start (Like Bad Mama Dog also signed on Bonus Tracks Records). I am glad that the French groups singing in English. But beware, there is singing in English and sing in English. I'm working with a lot of bands who I'm fighting for what I feel that English is a fig leaf. When you have nothing to say, it's easier to sing in English. But when you look at the titles, you want to say "no, but wait, they are your words cans (laughs). When you want to sing in English, the least we can do is that Anglo-Saxon understand what you mean. There are guys they arrive and they "girlfriend She Told Me won won won (he pretends to sing into a chararbia incomprehensible laughter). Rican and the next he is laughing and he did not understand a word of what the guy said! And French, he is great to his accent! It's a piece of cake marmonnade.
Hubert English from a country that does not exist ...
Yarol: I Ca cons. Cons by the group that really deliver in English with a real work on the texts and has stuff to say ... This is false speech stupid as what the texts are not important in Anglo-Saxon. Go tell that to Dylan, Neil Young to ! Thank you!
Hubert The idea is not to merely that of French or English only. Some songs are actually better in French, spontaneously. The songs are born like that, it was not fun to translate. You must be comfortable with the song. It has to talking to you and then you have successfully pass. But statistically it sounds worse in English and French.
Yarol: is a very dangerous exercise.
Yarol, when I listened to the disc, I could not help thinking Heartbreak Hotel. Do you see a link between the two discs?
Yarol: Yes entirely. If you take my musical fantasies U.S. Heartbreak Hotel is the front country and blues pouring The Hub. It's the same approach. Both albums were produced just the same way. It is working with a songwriter guitar / vocals. Nikola also came home with his guitar and his song and I built everything around me a sort of jumble and mess arrangements. These are two albums that I consider in the same lineage.
Hubert The album Heartbreak Hotel is one of those discs that made me think that we could build a super trick with Yarol.
catalog Bonus Tracks is very consistent from an artistic perspective with a continuity between each album and each group. We feel that the label is run by a musician. How do you choose the projects on which you work?
Yarol: I do not say I want to sell full. It only works on the stroke of heart and desire to work together. The artist must make me bend. It goes back to the hotel lovamour (laughs)! The Parisians is a group that I am a long time and I really like. I was very happy to do their album.
Hubert: I just I was attracted by the world of other artists Bonus Tracks. Me I will certainly not want to be on a strictly blues label. This is my music but I wanted to be on a label that I only sell network. There I recognize myself in the other groups the label. I see different periods of my musical evolution ...
Musically the album is fairly homogeneous but with touches of rock such as "six feet underground" or a little country like we talked about earlier. It is a sum of your influences?
Hubert Yes but it was not a party taken to a catalog of all the influences. The bluesmen of the 20s in Mississippi whites attended. Blacks, whites played the music that came from the same place and could be compared. Finally it sounds a little more country and blues, basically the same thing. Skins can be reversed. All these songs speak to me. Seasick Steve him when you ask the question, he just says "fuck the blues, I play American music." That's what I have in mind. I am very focused on the component side / song. It is only the hair stand up song with a simple guitar dry. After the song it belongs to you more. The idea is there. I put them in the hands of Yarol with blind faith.
Yarol: And I will not permanently to repeat myself. It annoys me to fourteen times the same song. It's also something that I blame a lot of records today. To hear a kind of recipe. There I am happy with what is more country music, other blues, roots, folk, rock n'roll, soul.
Hubert "Six feet underground is that which is the largest party Later in the rock universe but which can be played like John Lee Hooker. For me what is important is the spirit of the song. If in addition there may be full of colors ...
You certainly know Elliott Murphy. A few years ago when he released his blues album, he explained that the album had been inspired by his wife who told him: "you rockers when you're not dead at age 27 you become bluesman . What do you think?
Yarol: That has not yet 27 years (laughs)!
Hubert : This is not con. (Pause) There are many who have done this way there ... In any case, I am one of the statistics ... I remember as a reminder that Robert Johnson died at age 27.
Yarol: Speaking of what age he was when the Stones Keith Richards were "Beggars Banquet"? (Fast load) Not quite 27.
Hubert: Yes him but he missed his exit. It's not for lack of trying remark. But back to your question, it underscores the timeless. We often talk about "old bluesmen. But these guys have played when they were not old ... This is not music of old, it's just that it was registered before. I do not know what a poet says: "Being old is being young a little longer than others ..."
Interview February 2, 2011.
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