Biographie
Ray met the guitar when he was 8, and dedicated the next 30 years to studiously explore various styles - classic, ragtime, traditional, blues, rock, metal... Fully involved, focused, and determined to perform on stage by the age of 16, such is Ray :
There’s no going halfways.
For the next 2 decades on the road, with Texorama and with The Blue Butter Pot, the electric guitar remained his only companion. Until Ray heard the call back. The organic feeling of the folk guitar can’t be forgotten when it runs in your veins, when the love story between you and the mancrafted union of warm wood and steel strings urges you to find your way back... and to give in to quiet introspection, listening to your own breathing :
Was it the guitar or the man,
who started whispering the first secret in confidence ?
About...
“A mysterious tall fellow that defines himself as a frowning shy bear. "
In addition to the beard that attaches him to this emblem, it is to a conscious measure and hindsight that the similarity is expressed. Although not very talkative orally, his gaze breaks the credo twinkling on good humor, as it darkens when the storm is not far. Either way, Ray doesn't know how to lie and, actually, he'd rather not.
His music is simple, readable and refined, just like him. It gets straight to the point, and the point is to open the doors to her inner fortress. He writes down his convictions, his feelings, his dreams and his nightmares … Tailor-made lyrics for intimate songs.
One can find 15 years of roads, tours, tons of decibels, miles of bar counters and lotta bundles of guitar strings in his suitcases. He wants to return to his first affinities, "Folk". Americana, Bluegrass, Picking, Ragtime, indie, Folk songs which are sometimes Protests; at 40, it's time for the man and his guitar, preferably unplugged.
When the question arises as to whether minimalism equates to essential, we can only say that it gets us there right here.
Ray's other musical projects :
