"always let me down / taking parts of me..."
If you dare step into the scintillating spinning funk pop zoetrope of "Let That Go" by Glou-Glou, the solo project of multi-instrumentalist, producer, and winemaker Cam Hovsepian, and you will have a hard time not feeling cool. I even wanted to try some dance moves and have two left feet (it wasn't pretty). Cam's croony vocals definitely hits falsetto sweet spots and the blues / jazz dipped guitar leads give off (drum roll please) feels like an amalgam of DeBarge and Prince (Cam plays piano, guitar, bass and trumpet).
Of the track, Cam shares:
"Life is filled with so many small momentary interactions that can end up lingering with you for hours or days or weeks. It can lead to harboring anxiety or anger and can take away from living in the moment. If the voice in my head played a soundtrack to combat all of that anxiety, stress, or anger, this is the song it’d be playing."
and from Liner notes (bracketed):
[Glou-Glou, a play on the French wine-term for “glug glugging” your drink. And after picking up where his grandfather left off, Glou-Glou is making tunes that are smooth as his natural wines. He credits Bill Withers, Sade, Charlotte Day Wilson, and Paul McCartney as being his biggest musical influences for this project and we are ever grateful for that.]
I love the sound Cam is mining, the dramatic "duh duht" down beats, the flowering Nile Rodgers type rhythms, the sultry bass lines, the slap and tickle drum beat, everything that is steeped in funk dance fusions. Amazing.
[Glou-Glou (Cam Hovsepian) is a first-generation American and descendant of Armenian genocide survivors who fled to Iran for survival, and then to America with a dream.] I love this too.
-Robb Doner Curtius
https://www.instagram.com/glougloumusic/
https://soundcloud.com/glou-gloutunes/let-that-shit-go/s-TPvy6J0DlI9
Glou-Glou (Cam Hovsepian) is a first-generation American and descendant of Armenian genocide survivors who fled to Iran for survival, and then to America with a dream.
Cam’s first dreams of musicianship began at seven years old when he stumbled upon Louis Armstrong CDs at the public library. After falling in love with the melodic horn lines and soulful improvised vocal performances, Cam knew he had to learn how to play the trumpet.
Being from a struggling immigrant household of four sons, there was little money or time for music lessons or instruments. Undeterred, Cam figured out a way to teach himself to play the trumpet; with only a few bucks- he purchased a mouthpiece. Each day after school, he walked to the library and checked out musical scores and followed along with CDs on his portable Discman. Then, on weekends, he would spend the day at his local music store practicing on the floor model trumpets, bringing his mouthpiece with him. Once Cam became proficient at playing the trumpet, he took a similar path to teach himself how to play piano, guitar, and then bass. By fourteen years old with multiple instruments under his belt, Cam felt certain he’d found his calling. He subsequently graduated from UCLA and was fortunate enough to study Ethnomusicology under renowned jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell.
Glou-Glou, singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, "Let That Go", sexy pop, indie pop, funk pop, dance pop, indie rock, dramatic vocal aesthetic, sweet falsettos, Armenian American Cam Hovsepian,
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https://www.instagram.com/glougloumusic/
https://soundcloud.com/glou-gloutunes/let-that-shit-go/s-TPvy6J0DlI9
Glou-Glou (Cam Hovsepian) is a first-generation American and descendant of Armenian genocide survivors who fled to Iran for survival, and then to America with a dream.
Cam’s first dreams of musicianship began at seven years old when he stumbled upon Louis Armstrong CDs at the public library. After falling in love with the melodic horn lines and soulful improvised vocal performances, Cam knew he had to learn how to play the trumpet.
Being from a struggling immigrant household of four sons, there was little money or time for music lessons or instruments. Undeterred, Cam figured out a way to teach himself to play the trumpet; with only a few bucks- he purchased a mouthpiece. Each day after school, he walked to the library and checked out musical scores and followed along with CDs on his portable Discman. Then, on weekends, he would spend the day at his local music store practicing on the floor model trumpets, bringing his mouthpiece with him. Once Cam became proficient at playing the trumpet, he took a similar path to teach himself how to play piano, guitar, and then bass. By fourteen years old with multiple instruments under his belt, Cam felt certain he’d found his calling. He subsequently graduated from UCLA and was fortunate enough to study Ethnomusicology under renowned jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell.
Glou-Glou, singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, "Let That Go", sexy pop, indie pop, funk pop, dance pop, indie rock, dramatic vocal aesthetic, sweet falsettos, Armenian American Cam Hovsepian,
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