Bio
This page is somewhat redundant at the moment. Chances are, for now if you’re checking this out, you know-ish who I am.
For those who don’t, I’m Hugo Rousseaux-Bridle (roo-so bry-dal). I’m an 19 year old college student living in Kitchener, Ontario. I’m currently going to College for business, but am transferring into Graphic design, mainly because some aspects of business are about as interesting/exciting as watching grass grow (there’s a double meaning there. try and figure it out).
I’m kind of a strange person. A bit awkward in some cases, introverted in others, calm and outgoing most of the time, and rarely on the same plane of reality as you are.
My two main passions are Art and Music. Art started up a fair while before music did. When I was younger I was obsessed with copying pictures from books, especially medieval figures. These days, and probably for the past 4 years, my main thing in art is expressions. Faces, figures, lips, noses, eyes not on the same level, outrageous eyebrows and the like are all frequently-used paints on my creative palette.
On the music side, that’s been a solid adventure the last few years. From band stuff at high school with a small gathering of purely awesome people, to a random attempt at a loop-pedal based jazz/funk trio, to ever-continuing learnings and tidbits on acoustic. Music represents an escape from life and into life all at the same time. Everyone would be stuck in a very boring world, devoid of rhythm, of beat, and of feeling, if music did not exist.
Thankfully it’s impossible for it not to exist.. unless nothing made sound. Everything you hear can be classified in some way into music.
To give you a look into the kind of stuff I like to listen to, here’s a list:
Albert Lee
Alvin Lee
Andrew White
Andy Mckee
Antoine Dufour
Audioslave
BTO
The Band
BB King
Ben Harper
Blue Oyster Cult
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Bon Iver
Bonobo
Boozoo Bajou
Buddy Guy
Cake
Camera Obscura
Charlie Parker
Chicago
City and Colour
Claude Nougaro
Colin James
Cream
CCR
Derek And The Dominos
Derek Trucks band
Dire Straits
Dispatch
Django Reinhardt
Don Ross
Some Eagles
Edgar Winter Group
Enya
Eric Clapton
Fats Domino
FOTC when the mood strikes…
Focus
Franz Ferdinand
G. Love and Special sauce
GALACTIC!
Gogol Bordello
The Greyboy Allstars
The Guess Who
Hepcat
Herbie Hancock
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Jack Johnson
Jaco Pastorius
Jake Shimabakuro
James Brown
Jeff Beck
Jeff Healey
Jesse Cook
Jimi Hendrix
Joe Satriani
Joe Walsh
John Butler Trio
John Lennon
John Mayer
John McLaughlin
John Scofield
Journey
Justin Taylor
Kansas
Keb Mo
Kombo
Koop
Led Zeppelin
Lettuce
Manu Chao
Marcus Miller
Marcy Playground (First album only)
Martin Sexton
Mason Jennings
Maxime le Forestier
Medeski Martin And Wood
The Meters
Minus the bear
Moby
Modest Mouse (ish)
Mother Mother
Muddy Waters
NICHOLAS BARRON
The Nightwatchman
Oz Noy
Patato
Pink Floyd
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Raconteurs
Radiohead
Rage Against The Machine
Ratatat
Ravi Shankar
RHCP
Robert Cray
Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation
Robert Randolph
Robert Walter
Rush
Sam Cooke
Santana
Shout out louds
Simon and Garfunkel
Sonny Landreth
Soulive
Soundgarden (ish)
Stanley Jordan
STANTON MOORE
Stefano Barone
STEFFEN SHACKINGER
Steppenwolf (The Pusher is still possibly my favourite song of all time)
Steve Vai
SRV
Sufjan Stevens
Sun Ra
Supertramp
Susan Tedeschi
Ten Years After
Thelonius Monk
Tommy Emmanuel
Tower of Power
Transglobal Undersground
Weather Report
Wes Montgomery
The Who
The Wombats
Yes
There’s new stuff I’ve gotten into recently, like the Answering Machine, Citizen Cope, Temper Trap, and Kaki King that arn’t mentioned in that list, but it gives you a damn good idea.
That pretty much wraps it up without getting complicated. I love people, music, art, nature, and also technology. If you love at least 2/5 of those things, chances are we’d get along very well.
Peace and love,
HugoRB