Artist: Julian Taylor Band
Title: Back Again
Genre: Soul / Blues / Rock
Label: Howling Turtle/Believe Digital
Video: https://youtu.be/1yvoAiDQguU
The voice drifting into the lobby from the soundcheck sounds so timeless it might be emerging from some ancient well of souls at the end of the world, but it's also fresh and vulnerable
Sometimes he sings in riddles celebrating sexuality, courting, pleading, lonesome and profound. Other times, lost in the dreads, the voice comes up out of the shadow summoning ancestral tones of Maroon resistance or slipping into a high Mohawk register.
So…not a monotone experience at all. And well beyond stereo. In fact not of any one genre. Not limited that way. You get doors opening on doors. There's no dissonance. In fact it's a harmonic whole
Not a revivalist, but a musical revisionist, Julian Taylor masterfully re-combines and updates the vintage sounds that inspired him, to create bold, innovative songs. Influenced by all genres of music, he came by his eclectic tastes naturally, having grown up surrounded by a musical family.
It is a pleasure to find in the monoculture of the current musical moment a group of musicians bold and talented enough to be various. In an era when music lovers seem to be required to like one thing, one style, one genre we get the protean of the Julian Taylor Band confident enough in their own abilities to delimit the genres and let the soulful beats resound from wider horizons. Here we have rhythm and blues, soul, thoughtful folk songs, and a little rock and roll.
Taylor, of both West Indian and Native Canadian decent, is a charismatic frontman, prolific songwriter, and endearing individual – the kind who immediately connects and makes you feel at ease. That character of warmth and generosity permeates everything Taylor does. A calm, somewhat self-effacing person offstage, Taylor morphs into an intense, incendiary and almost shamanistic presence onstage. Toronto poet Robert Priest describes him as “the kind of artist forever in the zone, the voice limitless, the songs full of feeling and memorable hooks.”
He’s a Toronto music scene staple, and a musical chameleon who’s used to mixing it up. One minute Taylor’s rockin’ out with his bandmates in a club, spilling out electrified rhythm ‘n’ blues glory, and the next he’s featured at a folk festival, delivering a compelling solo acoustic set.
https://juliantaylorband.com
https://www.facebook.com/thejuliantaylorband/
Title: Back Again
Genre: Soul / Blues / Rock
Label: Howling Turtle/Believe Digital
Video: https://youtu.be/1yvoAiDQguU
The voice drifting into the lobby from the soundcheck sounds so timeless it might be emerging from some ancient well of souls at the end of the world, but it's also fresh and vulnerable
Sometimes he sings in riddles celebrating sexuality, courting, pleading, lonesome and profound. Other times, lost in the dreads, the voice comes up out of the shadow summoning ancestral tones of Maroon resistance or slipping into a high Mohawk register.
So…not a monotone experience at all. And well beyond stereo. In fact not of any one genre. Not limited that way. You get doors opening on doors. There's no dissonance. In fact it's a harmonic whole
Not a revivalist, but a musical revisionist, Julian Taylor masterfully re-combines and updates the vintage sounds that inspired him, to create bold, innovative songs. Influenced by all genres of music, he came by his eclectic tastes naturally, having grown up surrounded by a musical family.
It is a pleasure to find in the monoculture of the current musical moment a group of musicians bold and talented enough to be various. In an era when music lovers seem to be required to like one thing, one style, one genre we get the protean of the Julian Taylor Band confident enough in their own abilities to delimit the genres and let the soulful beats resound from wider horizons. Here we have rhythm and blues, soul, thoughtful folk songs, and a little rock and roll.
Taylor, of both West Indian and Native Canadian decent, is a charismatic frontman, prolific songwriter, and endearing individual – the kind who immediately connects and makes you feel at ease. That character of warmth and generosity permeates everything Taylor does. A calm, somewhat self-effacing person offstage, Taylor morphs into an intense, incendiary and almost shamanistic presence onstage. Toronto poet Robert Priest describes him as “the kind of artist forever in the zone, the voice limitless, the songs full of feeling and memorable hooks.”
He’s a Toronto music scene staple, and a musical chameleon who’s used to mixing it up. One minute Taylor’s rockin’ out with his bandmates in a club, spilling out electrified rhythm ‘n’ blues glory, and the next he’s featured at a folk festival, delivering a compelling solo acoustic set.
https://juliantaylorband.com
https://www.facebook.com/thejuliantaylorband/
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