Troubadelic
Man/woman duo playing and singing acoustic based rock with strong lyrics and harmonies.
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London
London
Lotsa harmonies in a catchy Kinks style
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The band is basically a duo, Mike Katin guitars, mandoline, vocals - and Pascale Michaut bass and vocals. Mike writes all the songs. We cross a few styles over, folk, jazz, manouche, pop with a sixties flavour. We now have added drums and a second guitar to the group.
Band/artist history
Troubadelic was formed in Lodève at the end of 2003 by Mike Katin, who had recently moved from London, and Pascale Michaut from Paris. Mike writes the music and lyrics and plays acoustic and electric guitars while Pascale plays the bass. Singing together is what drew them together on a wintry night in St.Maurice de Navacelles on the Larzac plateau, the instant harmonising of the two strangers taking everyone by surprise.
At first the repertoire was really folky, with an influence of early music like Gace Brulé and Guiot de Dijon. That’s how the name came about, from Trouvères, or Troubadours. That and Mike’s love of the psychedelic sound of 60’s groups from both sides of the Atlantic Gettit?
In 2006 we put out the first CD ‘Troubadelic’. Loads of vocal harmonies with a mixture of stripped down arrangements as on ‘Wooden Boats’ and ‘Rosemary Lane’, and more produced tracks such as ‘Glastonbury Days’ and ‘La Porte du Passé’. You can find the album on CD Baby and I tunes. A lot of good stuff got left off as well but we figured 12 tracks was a good number to keep.
With us it’s always been about songs, we love a great guitar break or whatever, but usually it’s the song that makes the solo and not the other way round. As Brian Epstein once said, “ The next big thing is a great song”, it still seems to ring true some 40 years later!
Since doing the CD the repertoire has evolved. I guess playing live has given us the impetus to become more full and more rhythmic so now we’ve expanded the line-up in order to play bigger dates and bring the tracks alive to an audience just how we like it, and they like it.
Have you performed in front of an audience?
Been working s a duo in the Languedoc-Roussillon area of France, now rehaearsing 4-piece group for more dates.
Your musical influences
Gotta be great songs with an emotional belt. Love San Francisco 60's stuff, Quicksilver, Airplane.
What equipment do you use?
!963 gibson SG special, Ovation Custom Legend, Custom made Danelectro bass
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