LES BARONS
About Music Videos Gallery News Contact Blog
Baron Exu
baron exu headshot Baron Exu is the Instigator and Summoner of these Barons.  Having lived in the house by the cemetery while suffering severe heartache and loss, Baron Exu sat down with his acoustic 12 string and steel guitar to transfer the pain into some kind of release.  After hours of  trying to record the  emotional barrage that was flooding out of him , despite the neighbor upstairs banging on the ceiling, he managed to commit to tape at least one take of each song. The resulting songs were  aching, twangy, dark, if  not depressing. Falling somewhere between delta  country blues .with a  voodoo  swampy feel, 2 sets of music were captered  At the time Baron Exu was playing in an ensemble he had put together called Silent Gathering. Years passed as he moved from Silent Gathering to join Down All Days which became Windwalker, until finally while playing in Windwalker  Exu formed The Technicians, then Windwalker broke up. So approximately 12 years later the songs basically untouched (Silent Gathering and Windwalker played a couple)Exu summoned up some more Barons he had met along the winding path to join in his quest to infuse these cemetery blues with the energy  of the Guede family(Voudou  Loa of the cemetery). 


     NEXT
Les Barons Links  Vancouver's Ambassadors Of Voodoo Blues Roots Rock Les Barons On Myspace