GUILHÖM is a singer, guitarist, songwriter from Montpellier in the south of France. Alone or with his drummer, he proposes Folk songs fed by numerous influences (blues, rock, oriental or still African). On stage it’s a whole musical and introspective journey which is proposed, enriched by recorded live loops and other instruments (acoustic and electric guitar, clarinet, duduk, foot percussions…).
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At the beginning, the project Guilhöm was born as a break. Some lo-fi folk song, vaguely blues, recorded hastily on a wooden guitar, some modest pieces, some nostalgic notes accumulated without making a commitment in a precise direction, but with a desire of escape. In fact, this desire to mix his influences, but also to take him away from his first musical loves (electric, metal or even industrial), to dare to risk him towards more acoustic and calmed atmospheres, simply to make dance his fingers on a guitar, to make travel the spirit and operate in a way a return in the main part. Little by little these very intimate songs let glimpse new musical colors, new ways to explore…
