Music without borders! Hypnotic Wheels, with Tia on vocals and guitar, Marc Glomeau on percussions and Gilles Chabenat on the electroacoustic hurdy-gurdy are on a residence at the Baie des Singes, in Cournon-d’Auvergne, Central France, before their departure for a « super mega project in Mississippi. »
More information soon. To follow on Facebook, on Hypnotic Wheels‘ page and on Tia‘s page.
Back to the studio. Finishing sraight, this week, for Tia’s new album.
Her thins is the blues. Don’t ask her why. That is how it is. You can’t explain music, you can just live it. Tia just came back from the United States, a two-week journey. […] She even discovered a new paradise: the North Mississippi Hill Country. […] With a strange feeling: « It was like being at home. There is something special going on in this area where musicians play a very hypnotic kind of blues. »
In his « Portrait of the Week », Jean-Paul Boithias writes about Tia’s last trip to the United States, her professional path, and the new album she starting working on, her third, which will be released in the fall of 2017.
Read the full story (in French) in Info Magazine.
Tia & The Groove Box will perform at the Arsenik Festival on Thursday March 2nd at 5:30 PM at the Theatre in La Bourboule, in the Puy-de-Dôme area. Tia, on guitar and vocals, will be accompanied by Marc Glomeau at percussions.
At 9 PM, Marc Glomeau will join Mère Grand & The Sound Avengers for a crazy show during which the band revisits TV series songs.
The festival is free.
Find all the upcoming performances on the Tour page.
Tia just spent a day and a half at the studio to add, as she says, « little cherries on the cake » of her new album, to be released next fall. « It is coming along! »
American magazine Big City Rhythm & Blues ‘s fall issue features women in the blues. Tia is one of the women who are part of the Screamin’ the blues, a collection of photographs by Francoise Digel, currently being exhibited at the Delta Cultural Center in Helena, Arkansas.
The collection was previously exhibited at the Blues Hall of Fame, in Memphis, from May to October. Another picture representing Tia’s hand was featured there, part of the Off the Record collection, along with T-Model Ford, Mickey Rogers et Jimbo Mathus’ hands.
© Francoise Digel
The photo presenting Tia was taken during a private event earlier this year in Memphis.
A video bringing back memories from the Vache de Blues festival, in Villerupt, North-Eastern France, in 2014.
Tia & The Patient Wolves – « Lookin’ Good » (Sam Maghett)
Tia Gouttebel: vocals, guitar
Manu Borghi: keys
Jean-Marc Despeignes: bass
Marc Glomeau: percussions
Gilles Haenggi: drums
Sofy L.: designer of Tia’s dress
Tia revisits her repertoire as a duo with percussionnist Marc Glomeau (Black Chantilly, Hypnotic Wheels). Their performance celebrates the blues in its most authentic, minimalistic and captivating form. A richness of tones and sounds, linking the blues back to its roots, in Africa.
Tia: vocals, guitar.
Marc Glomeau: cajon, bendir, shakers, shells, thunderbox.
Tia and her Patient Wolves performed at the Cognac Blues Passions festival, in Cognac, France, in front of over 6,000 people. They opened for Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite. Here is a video of this amazing show.
