Since his debut with the album Naked Blues, Paulo Furtado's alter-ego (ex-Tédio Boys and Wraygunn leader) - The Legendary Tiger Man - has managed to establish an intense relationship between music and image. This one-man band's old tradition Delta blues would not be the same without the visual component supporting his records, photographs and live performances. Behind this fruitful sound/vision connection stands the creative chemistry between Paulo Furtado and the photographer Pedro Medeiros. Among Naked Blues and Fuck Christmas, I Got the Blues photographic sessions and video-clips we get the new In Cold Blood and Don't You Murder Me sessions. In Cold Blood condenses the Legendary Tiger Man's musical path into a photo album by sublimely illustrating the sexual tension and atmosphere that exhales from this orchestra-man's hypnotic blues. Adding to In Cold Blood, Subotnick Enterprises extended invitations to various artists to remix tracks from Fuck Christmas, I Got the Blues. Hence the remix album with such different and stimulating approaches to The Legendary Tiger Man's music. Tiger Man's guitar, kazoo, hi-hat and kick, his shadowy stories of sex, crime and damnation, with the support of rhythmic cadence, of the trepidation of multiple instruments and vocal inflexions show up now in a different clothing - from D-Mars's hip-hop to brand new Wip's break-beat, from X-Wife's electronic rock to Plaza's dancing pop, from Volstad's gothic minimalism to Dancin' Days' disco-sound, from Bulllet's masterly lounge to Stealing Orchestra's feast, through the home mixes that include Pedro Renato (Belle Chase Hotel, Azembla's Quartet) and Le Petit Prince (Bodhi).
For purists, a Legendary Tiger Man's remix album may sound a sacrilege, but believe it or not, Paulo Furtado's blues essence and spirit wander around there and, above all, so do music and songs. As Johnny Cash said: "Music has always been my magic to take me through the dark places. I could wrap myself in the warm cocoon of a song and go anywhere; I was invincible. I still can. It feels good to be in a song." The artists that remixed these album tracks admire The Legendary Tiger Man's work in the first place and have certainly felt good by being in these songs. Dare!