YOURI BLOW
Born in Troyes, in the Champagne-Ardennes region, Youri Blow took his first steps into the world of music playing Leadbelly's "Where Did you Sleep Last Night " (discovered in Nirvana Unplugged) by ear on a cheap guitar. Different songs from Led Zeppelin III would follow, and at 16 he started working as a painter to pay for his first electric guitar (Epiphane. Gibson).
Inspired by the power of Jimi Hendrix's (Blues in the West) voodoochile, at 17 he bought a new electric guitar (Fender American Stratocaster). The first Hendrix song he played was "Little Wing": from this point onward music had become such an integral part of his life that the passion of his youth saw him sleeping next to his guitar every night...
After a number of experiences in pyschedelic Blues Rock bands following in the footsteps of Pink Floyd, Hendrix, the Doors, Santana...at 21 he decided to head to Peru for two months. This experience would mark a turning point in his life. One back in France, he took to the road solo, inspired by the "mercernary troubadours" of the Delta blues, whose husky voices would gradually blend with the colors of the Peruvian wilderness..At this point Psychéblues has begun to take shape and is gradually developing. Known as Youri plays the Delta Blues, he settled in Paris and played every night in bars, Blues clubs, jam sessions, and some of the most unlikely performance halls of the Capital, bringing forth haunting overtones of Son House, Skip James, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, John Hurt... with his dobro guitar (Tanglewood) and his wild, savage voice for a diverse yet always enchanted audience. Various encounters led him to perform in Blues concerts and festivals (Autour du Blues, Barbes Tour, Blues Sur Seine, House of Live, Reservoir...). At the same time he recorded a Delta Blues demo, "Love is Over".
Back in his adopted region in 2006 under the name of Youri plays the Psychéblues he introduced Breton audiences to his second demo, "Papillon de Mars" and his first album "Sand of Fairy" , opening for Elliot Murphy, Boubacar Traoré, Joe Bonamassa, Björn Berge...
The purchase of a new acoustic guitar (La Prinzi) marked the beginning of a year of solitude spent absorbing the influences of traditional music from around the world (Li Xiangting, Musa Eroglu, Arif Sag, Amida Boussou, Pandit Ram Narayan...) and classical music (Kronos Quartet, Ravel, Mozart, Yehudi Menuhin...) years which would lead to his 2008 album "Moon Rock My Soul", to be found under his definitive name, Youri Blow.
LE PSYCHEBLUES
The meeting of two forces: dream and reality, mixed with madness and realism, pleasure and suffering, Psychéblues is the union of traditional blues with the most modern rhythms (Indian, gnawa, soufi…).
The machines participate subtly to a progressive slide towards the most psychedelic of worlds. They drive in real time natural sounds that have been transformed, altered…
From now on, his concerts will mix the natural sound of his guitar and his dobro with psychedelic sound and smixed video projections.
A combination of raw energy, faith and magic, his music appeals as much to the heart and spirit as to the ears.
