Tuesday, 24 May 2016
Sunday, 28 September 2008
Intium Lacuna
So I am here to write about my band The Waits.
The Waits is many things. A band, an orchestra, a treasure hunt in to the 16th century, a musical re-imagining of Shakespeare's greatest quotes and a platform to exorcise my inner demons as a performer.
Upon it's conception, I can only liken myself to a 'sample' artist, although unlike Fat Boy Slim (whom I like very much), I haven't limited myself to a record collection from the 20th Century to mix, match, cut, paste and copy from. Mainly because I get excited by all kinds of things ranging from Elizabethan chamber music to Heavy Rock to Hermetic literature to Mozart.
The Waits is a melting pot of everything that fascinates me; the link between the poet William Blake (the first chief of The Order Of Bards, Ovates and Druids - in to which I was initiated when I was 16), the possible learned characters called 'The Areophagae' who some believe to be behind the authorship of the Shakespeare plays, Francis Bacon (the philosopher, not the artist), Mozart and his use of Pythagoras' theories on music for composition, freemasonry, rosicrucianism, the importance of the 'Golden Age' when England flourished creatively, particularly the wisdom of Shakespeare's words, the rich musical revolution of the 1960's, the way we go completely crazy at great rock concerts and the age old belief that music is much more than 'something we just listen to'. The origins of music come from our attempts to communicate with the divine. I myself am not too sure if there are any 'divinities', although I believe there is something greater and worth aspiring to that is still a mystery. Music is the force that makes it less mysterious to me, although whatever is out there (or in us) is still something that defies translation, however beautiful and vital it may feel.
If they are my fascinations, then The Waits is my musical journal to jot down the way those fascinations affect me.
We've just started, and hope to be going for a while so do look in if it wets your whistle.
Pleased to meet you ladies and gents!
Will Tallis
thewaits.co.uk
The Waits is many things. A band, an orchestra, a treasure hunt in to the 16th century, a musical re-imagining of Shakespeare's greatest quotes and a platform to exorcise my inner demons as a performer.
Upon it's conception, I can only liken myself to a 'sample' artist, although unlike Fat Boy Slim (whom I like very much), I haven't limited myself to a record collection from the 20th Century to mix, match, cut, paste and copy from. Mainly because I get excited by all kinds of things ranging from Elizabethan chamber music to Heavy Rock to Hermetic literature to Mozart.
The Waits is a melting pot of everything that fascinates me; the link between the poet William Blake (the first chief of The Order Of Bards, Ovates and Druids - in to which I was initiated when I was 16), the possible learned characters called 'The Areophagae' who some believe to be behind the authorship of the Shakespeare plays, Francis Bacon (the philosopher, not the artist), Mozart and his use of Pythagoras' theories on music for composition, freemasonry, rosicrucianism, the importance of the 'Golden Age' when England flourished creatively, particularly the wisdom of Shakespeare's words, the rich musical revolution of the 1960's, the way we go completely crazy at great rock concerts and the age old belief that music is much more than 'something we just listen to'. The origins of music come from our attempts to communicate with the divine. I myself am not too sure if there are any 'divinities', although I believe there is something greater and worth aspiring to that is still a mystery. Music is the force that makes it less mysterious to me, although whatever is out there (or in us) is still something that defies translation, however beautiful and vital it may feel.
If they are my fascinations, then The Waits is my musical journal to jot down the way those fascinations affect me.
We've just started, and hope to be going for a while so do look in if it wets your whistle.
Pleased to meet you ladies and gents!
Will Tallis
thewaits.co.uk
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