“I’m going to do three acoustic songs for you, then my album is going to be on repeat and I’m going to be raring to go, because I don’t like hearing myself!” declared the man whose real name is Benoît Pinette before performing the piece for the first time in front of a public The Observatory in a three-guitar ensemble with his acolytes Benoît Villeneuve and Simon Pedneault.
“It’s been nine months since this album was finished, I’ve listened to it hundreds of times. I have even had time to launch three projects since then,” he admitted before performing the piece with his soft and slightly fragile voice.
Then it is Freedom (It’s to follow the plan), “which is meant to be sarcastic,” he said about the piece which sounded very good in an acoustic format with its three-guitar harmonies.
Cohen’s aura
Then Baldya vibrant tribute to Leonard Cohen where he even repeats in French verses of the great Montreal poet taken from the play A Thousand Kisses Deep. “I excel at love, I excel at hatred, it is between the two that I paralyze”, he sings in this title which he got the inspiration for while climbing the slopes of Mount Baldy, in California, where there is a Zen monastery where Cohen used to take refuge.
“It’s still special, a multimillionaire who went to fuck himself in an 8 by 12 cabin with a small bed and a toilet! “He started going there in the ’70s and in the ’90s, he stayed there for five years in a period of depression,” he told his audience, adding that Cohen’s aura hovered everywhere. on Dynasty.
“When I got there, it’s not something that happens to me often, but I was filled with emotion to find myself in a place where Cohen was looking for answers in his life!”
— Shoot the Coyote, about his visit to Mount Baldy
Regarding Cohen, who he admits bitterly regrets never having seen in performance, Tire le Coyote will also confide to Soleil that he is simmering a long-term project around the poet’s work.
“I’ll have to talk to his son Adam about it!” he drops, mentioning the one who manages the estate of his father who died in 2016 at the age of 82. “It was really special about Mount Baldy, especially for someone like me who has read all his biographies, heard all his songs and watched all the documentaries about him,” he continues.
Her little voice
Tire le Coyote also admitted to feeling dizzy every time he launches an album “I always wonder if it could be that they are really disgusted to hear that little voice!” he said, smiling as the audience reassured him about it. It was actually the first thing a friend said to him when they went to shake his hand after his performance. “No, we’re not tired of your voice!” he told the artist who was preparing to meet the rest of his fans.
“It’s true that I don’t like to hear myself and I believe that all the artists will agree with me,” he said later in an interview, emphasizing all the same that he is very proud of this new effort.
“We always repeat the same chords, the same tunesthe same refrains. We often listen to each other during mixing too.”
— Shoot the Coyote, about how he doesn’t like to hear himself on record
Less trippy
The result is much less atmospheric than on his previous album, In the First Round of Evidence, launched at the start of 2022. “It was normal, it was a pandemic year where everyone was a little slow!”
Pour DynastyTire le Coyote tackled each piece one by one, first in pairs with Villeneuve in the studio before adding musicians like Pedneault, drummer Kevin Warren and Simon Angell, of the band Thus Owls, to the mix.
And for the first time, he did his backing vocals himself. “Except on one room!” he indicated. “We also did a lot ofoverdubs [superpositions sonores]“Beatles style” voices where you need to push less, but voices that envelop you the same,” he describes.
The musician, who divides his time between his residence in Limoilou, that of his girlfriend in Montreal and their chalet in Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, still considers Quebec as his home and still appreciates the local scene, propelled among others by a a place of creation like Le Pantoum. “It’s not at all awkward to stay in Quebec when you’re an artist now! », he finishes. Tire le Coyote did not hesitate to use a work by Quebec painter Annie Baillargeon on the cover of its new album.
