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"After years of wild guitar-singing of everything from Irish folk to rock in general in pubs and cafés everywhere, Bruz eventually decided to write his own stuff. It was worth the wait since his first album "Seeds" was released in may, 12 wonderful songs, mostly ballads with amazing melodies and words but also some more nervous political songs (like the explosive 'PKW'). A superb work that should please fans of U2, Springsteen or Joseph Arthur."

I remember an evening with friends about 2 years ago, talking about changing the world and all that sort of things. We suggested that everybody should give himself a project to build up from start to finish. I then remember myself saying : i have written 3 songs. When I have 10, I'll put them all on a record.

In april 2006, I wrote "The Seeds", the tenth song. I had to keep my words or my friends would not leave me alone for years. So i started recording acoustic guitars and vocals with an old friend Yvon. I then started working on the songs, thinking of drums, strings and stuff. I wrote 2 other titles "I swear" and "When love comes to you" (which we didn't keep cos' it was a bit redundant with "Flowers"). When the recording was over and we started mixing, I thought that all this was not bad at all and that I could decently make a record to have people listen to.

I don't know how the words came to me since I had not written songs since 1999. I thought that songwriting was some ancient part of my life that was over now. I was on putting up the label to produce other artists' work around 2001 and I believed that was my place to be. I still love doing it though. Since the recording is over, I have written 4 more songs which I'd love to put on a record one of these years. When i have 10 ...

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"Seeds" available now Aug 5

I was only sort of recording a demo with acoustic guitar and vocals at the beginning of the story.

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• bruz - lead vocals, guitars, piano

• yann - drums

• thomas - bass

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In my ears

Jeff Buckley, Indigo Girls, U2, Springsteen, Radiohead, Damien Rice, Ray Lamontagne, David Gray, Tom McRae, David Sylvian, Tori Amos, Tom Waits, Pearl Jam, Talk Talk, Bob Dylan, Anais Mitchell, Jason Mraz, Jennifer terran, PJ Harvey, Peter Gabriel, Ani di Franco, Innocence Mission, All About Eve, Mark Hollis, Iron and Wine, the Pogues, Tracy Chapman, Irish folk, Queen, the mission, and also the trees