TIO Manuel

The Ian Ottaway project A sublime, multifaceted esthetic lands on doorstep of Closer Records in the form of Manu Castillo; aka Tio Manuel. Having made ​​his debut with the legendary Parisian punk combo Wunderbach, Tio Manuel prepares his fifth album due to release November of 2015. Heaving away from classical writing, this project is a musical setting of poems by Ian Ottaway, webmaster of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and a high-wire American underground poet: Incendiary ink, born of the pen of Rimbaud and Bukowsky, Ian usually throws away his writings to the Net like message bottles to the sea. Fearing the thought that this dark and tormented prose be tirelessly lost to the Web's nebulous maze, Tio Manuel decided to perpetuate this universe by embodying it in the form of a songbook. Tio Manuel is a mature artist, accomplished, who is able, caught by the wind , to chart a heading along these literary explorations and experiments. During this initial, founding journey , he visits the great, free territories of Punk, Clashy-Reggae, Jamaican ska , Blues, while not forgetting Country music , composing as well, when fancy takes him, in his mother tongue, that of Cervantes'. But far from having wandered aimlessly and without purpose, he knows how to extract the quintessence of each stream, integrating and sublimating , restoring and transcending each to the incandescent light of his own sensitivity, his limitless creativity. Today Tio Manuel reaches a crucial stage of his journey, of his rise to the spheres that touch the soul. His latest compositions vibrate in unison with his ideal and conspicuously glowing depth, haloing with such crystal clarity that would not have been denied by the likes of OP8 or Calexico's Howe Gelb, nor the darker icons such as Johnny Cash , Chris Bailey, Nick Cave or even Jeffrey Lee Pierce. punky Folk rock from Paris