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THE LEGENDARY TIGERMAN: Rock 'n' Roll "Misfit" Reveals Six Sources Of Inspiration
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Best known for his one-man band style blues and rock performances, The Legendary Tigerman, AKA Portuguese multi-instrumentalist Paulo Furtado, is an artist for whom the world is not enough. When creating a track, he draws on a host of feelings, people and locations for inspiration. Read on to discover what gets his creative juices flowing.
The Desert
“Being in the desert is one of the most inspiring things ever. Being alone, surrounded by nature and vast space, no cellphone signal and no people around, it can transport you to the least visited places inside you.”
Car rides
“Life on the side of the road, in motion, it’s quite different from a sedentary life in the city. You’re never in the same place for too long and the people and things that you see everywhere are always associated with the places where you’ve first encountered them in.”
Other art
“The more songs you listen to, and the more different from what you write, the more tools you have to write. A painting or a picture [also] has a story in itself. Or any ambience. And it can be exactly what you need to create the idea for a song.”
Cinema
“Writing movie-inspired songs is always a challenge and it can be done in many different ways. I can start off with one picture or scene, or I can relate to a character in a much more literal way. Like in [my new track] Motorcycle Boy, for example, inspired by Francis Ford Coppola’s main character [played by Mickey Rourke] in Rumble Fish.”
Desire
“Perhaps desire is one of the greatest triggers for songwriting. Love makes the world turn, but desire makes the world dream. And songs are often the running engine of dreams.”
Life
“Nothing is more inspiring than living and storing that experience, whether it’s by recording sounds, taking pictures, writing notes or filming. To go from reality to fiction is a wonderful tool for writing music.”
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