Since the other blogs are doing it for me.... I might as well! Stream the album in full here: Julian Shah-Tayler's "Coito Ergo Sum" for free streaming here. Featuring the "Tiger Blood" live favourites "Wetter", "Revolution" and "Beautiful World"

“Wetter Is Massive It will make Julian a star” – Alan McGee (Creation Records)
“Very Impressed” – David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets)
“Julian is a true musical genius” – Ed Mears (Crest Digital Recordings)
“Classy Pop Perfection” – BabySue
“Massive talent” – Boom Boom Chik
“Sublime electronic rock – A marvelous Hunky Dory” – Mojophenia
“Songwriting and performance is quite stunning” – Beehive Candy
“Julian is seriously talented” – I Am The Programmer
“Electrifying” - Hotter In Hollywood
“It’s like a magic carpet ride” – Mark Walbaum – CSI Miami
“London new wave at its danceable best” – Dabelly.com
“The Brilliant Julian Shah-Tayler..... Stupidly good” – Liberty London Girl
“Extremely Catchy” - Bomarrblog
"Illustrious, very talented. I can't say anything short of Wow!" - Lolly's Hot Licks
"I am so blown away. Reminds me of Prince." - Rick Mizuno (LA Talk Radio)
"I love this album - it's fantastic" - Yorkie, Aiiradio
“Beauty that is rarely seen in music today” – Ramonosaurusrex
“As good as it gets” – Must have track of 2010 – Rebel Riffs
“Intelligent, and skilled” – The Deli
“A true musical chameleon” – Mixtape Muse
“This music screams SEXY to me” – Lafamos blog
“Artistic perfection on his own terms” – Obscure Sound
“An artist to watch for his versatility, musical integrity and sophisticated artistry” – Music Goat
“A mystical world mastered by Julian… Melancholic rock heaven” – Mishmash Magazine
“A real musical journey” – Back When We Were Beautiful Blog

Joaquin statement.... followup to E! interview

Just to put a few more things straight. I was definitely misquoted/misunderstood on a few things in transition between interview and publication.
Firstly, It was Alan McGee - svengali and record company owner (Creation Records) who introduced Scott and I to Joaquin AND Antony.
The songs were written by Antony and Joaquin together, I now understand.
Antony was the very able singer of the project.
Joaquin's input was focused on lyrics/songwriting and producer/directing.
I am also definitely not claiming to be a bosom buddy of either Joaquin OR Antony, as I have had no contact with them since the sessions.
I played piano, percussion and sang on the record along with Scott Fairbrother (Adamandevil) who played bass/guitar and sang.
I stand by the praise that I rather liberally heaped upon the record, and hope for it one day to be released so as to silence the critics.

Julian Shah-Tayler

Undefined - lyrics

http://julianshah-tayler.bandcamp.com/album/fill-your-joys-with-love

It never rains but it pours
I have my pain as you have yours
Float like driftwood in the sea
I been searching for the truth but the truth keeps finding me.

You bring it up and leave it undefined you know how to make me
You torture me so elegant refined, you know how to break me

So the future's here
Or is it just another year
For me to decide
I been searching for the truth but it's hidden in the lies

You bring it up and leave it undefined, you know how to make me
You torture me so elegant refined you know how to break me

After all this time, I still believe in Life, I won't let this die
I think I can pretend that we could be just friends, but this love will not die

You bring it up and leave it undefined, you know how to make me
You torture me so elegant refined, you know how to break me

Lullabies - lyrics

http://julianshah-tayler.bandcamp.com/album/un-ange-passe

Oh my little girl, I told the moon to shine for you
Oh my little one, I told the tides to bring my love

Oceans deep
As you drift into sleep

Oh my little girl, I told the stars to keep you warm
Oh my little child, your angels safe inside

Silver streams
As you slip into dreams

And if you wake up, don't be scared
And if you wake up, I'll be there
To sing lullabies for you

Oh my little girl, as my fingers stroke your hair
Oh my little sweet, as my kisses brush your cheek

Safe from harm
As you fall into my arms

And if you wake up, don't be scared
And if you wake up, I'll be there
To sing lullabies for you

Communication - lyrics

http://julianshah-tayler.bandcamp.com/album/un-ange-passe

I cannot communicate,
I’m just trying to stay awake
Wish someone would take my hand
And pull me out of this sinking sand

I don’t want to know what’s wrong
Why does my body feel so numb
All these words will go to waste
I cannot communicate

Communication

All these pictures in my book,
All these memories that I took
All the reasons that I found
Take my flickr spread around

Communication

And if everything’s alright and if everything’s OK
Then why do I feel so lost along the way?
When the fallout from the night always follows through the day
Then we lose the will to communicate

All the lessons that we learned
From the times that we got burned
Will never ameliorate
Our fragile mental state

I don’t want to know what’s wrong
Why does my body feel so numb
All these words will go to waste,
Because I cannot communicate

Communication

And if everything’s alright and if everything’s OK
Then why do I feel so lost along the way?
When the fallout from the night always follows through the day
Then we lose the will to communicate

Everything Is You - lyrics

http://julianshah-tayler.bandcamp.com/album/un-ange-passe

All the creepy things, and all the beautiful things
Because everything is you
All the dark things and all the wonderful things
Because everything is you

'Cause you are inside.

For F

Wetter - Lyrics

http://julianshah-tayler.bandcamp.com/album/un-ange-passe

If you're getting bored with the conversation, let's get down to the penetration
You're the object of my fascination I want to make you wet with my perspiration now
The wetter the better

You burn me out like a flame, I want you
Your body is the reason that I came, the wetter the better I want you I want you
You run me off the rails like a train, I want you
Your body is the reason that I came, the wetter the better I want you I want you

If we fall in the water, don't you worry, we'll have those wet clothes off in a hurry
Got nothing left to wear then don't you shake it, let's go home and just get naked now
The wetter the better

You burn me out like a flame, I want you
Your body is the reason that I came, the wetter the better I want you I want you
You run me off the rails like a train, I want you
Your body is the reason that I came, the wetter the better I want you I want you
I want you to come and burn me out

Christine - lyrics

http://julianshah-tayler.bandcamp.com/album/un-ange-passe

For a lost friend, Christine Shroy-Hull

Why are the fires still burning?
How can this world keep on turning?
Without the love that we’re learning
Oh Christine?

As the kiss of the needle
Delivers you to the real world
Sweet as the hit of a feeling
Oh Christine

For all the battles you won
You strap your feather suit on
Disintegrate in the sun
Light up so the dark age will disappear

Est ce qu’un ange passe partout
Sur les ailes d’une priere elu?
Je te donnerais mon amour
Oh Christine

For all the battles you won
You strap your feather suit on
Disintegrate in the sun
Light up so the dark age will disappear

Even if this life could give all the love you need
I guess you had enough
I wish I could trade some time for the pain in your world
In spite of it all

Resurrection Road - lyrics

http://julianshah-tayler.bandcamp.com/album/fill-your-joys-with-love

Your name is love, you are the universe to me.
Like a breath of fresh air or a hit of ecstasy
Sliding through my skin

You are the whisper of prayer, where the celebrant kiss the ground.
The winds in your hair, your body soft like a cloud
Bursting just for me.

On Resurrection Road
My disconnection note
I may not be a man, but at least I aint a ghost
I just want to bring you shelter from the cold

Tangled my thoughts as they scatter like grains of sand
Shifting over you
Slip through my fingers as you tumble from my hand
Shiver black to blue

On Resurrection Road
My disconnection note
I may not be a man, but I think I aint a ghost
I just want to bring you shelter from the cold

My lips bring life to every word you say

Everything I do, everything is Love
Everything for you, everything is Love

(Melody) For You - lyrics

http://julianshah-tayler.bandcamp.com/album/fill-your-joys-with-love

I hide behind these strings from nettles and beestings
This road to my fortress is travelled more or less
Because I broke it down when I wrote it down.

The music's a river I float down forever
Now you are my rudder as you guide my fingers
And I sail you down as I write you down

A melody shimmers like sun on the ripples, it glides
On over the surface and down through the shadows inside
My melody glistens like dew in the morning, it slides
Out through my breathing and into the being for you I fly through time

you're my destination, most precious creation
These moments of pleasure bring me kisses to treasure
As I lay you down and I write you down

A melody shimmers like sun on the ripples, it glides
On over the surface and down through the shadows inside
My melody glistens like dew in the morning, it slides
Out through my breathing and into the being for you I fly through time

For S

Evaporate - lyrics

http://julianshah-tayler.bandcamp.com/album/fill-your-joys-with-love

Oh Mother, I was drowning,
Now I'm lighter than the air
These bars can't hold me in
As bubbles

We evaporate, intensify the outside
On the inside
We evaporate, intensify the outside
On the inside.

Oh Mother, let me go
We've been moving much too slow
I want the atmosphere to
Melt right through me

We evaporate, intensify the outside
On the inside
We evaporate, intensify the outside
On the inside.

Watch me rise like steam
Born inside this dream

We circle round
We circle round

All my life I'm circulating
To find a place that we can stay in

We evaporate, intensify the outside
On the inside
We evaporate, intensify the outside
On the inside.

Watch me rise like steam
Born inside this dream
Watch me fall like snow
Whitens morning glow
As I drift like leaves.....

Beautiful World - lyrics

http://julianshah-tayler.bandcamp.com/album/fill-your-joys-with-love

Where's the relief in not coming down
When I step off the roof and float to the ground
Seeing flickers in my fire once again
And it feels just like I'm trying to forget

I spend all my days wishing life away
You can be so tired you never want to wake
And these visions that I have just blur in the end
Because I fell into my self again

And you want to live it and you can't forgive it
It's a beautiful world
And you'll never leave it and you don't believe it
It's a beautiful world

Where's the belief in your history
And where's the relief from your misery
Failing flickers in my fire once again
Because I fell into myself again

And you want to live it and you can't forgive it
It's a beautiful world
And you'll never leave it and you don't believe it
It's a beautiful world

We all feel the same so don't give your life away
We all feel the pain so don't give your life away

And you want to live it and you can't forgive it
It's a beautiful world
And you'll never leave it and you don't believe it
It's a beautiful world

E! Interview featuring me...

Inside Joaquin Phoenix's "Brilliant" Long-Lost Album

Thu., Jan. 21, 2010 3:50 PM PST by Natalie Finn and Lindsay Miller
Joaquin Phoenix Michael Loccisano/Getty Images

Long before it was all about the beard, it was all about the music.

More than a year before Joaquin Phoenix set a new standard for lethargy on Letterman and said he was abandoning the movie biz to pursue a career in hip-hop, the Oscar-nominated actor wrote and recorded what sounds like a masterpiece.

"He's a Beatles, Oasis, Bowie-style songwriter. I hold it in that high esteem," L.A. musician Julian Shah-Taylor, who collaborated on the album with Phoenix, exclusively tells E! News.

Well, if that description is accurate, so would we...if we ever get to hear what he's talking about!

"He's accomplished just about everything anyone could accomplish as an artist," Shah-Taylor continued, hypothesizing why Phoenix's musical artistry may remain long lost.

"So coming out with a brilliant album of great music would not surprise anybody, and I think that's maybe why he didn't release it...And I think it's better to have some secrets, and I think Joaquin's secret is his prodigious music talent."

Shah-Taylor says that he met the Walk the Line star through Spacehog member Anthony Langdon (Liv Tyler's almost-ex-brother-in-law) and producer Alan McGee.

Over the course of a couple of months in 2007, they recorded eight tracks, most of them at Phoenix's in-house recording studio at his L.A. home, Shah-Taylor says.

Never mind what was to come, the musician tells us that Phoenix wasn't withdrawn at all, but was instead "bubbly" and "effervescent."

And not only was he a crackerjack singer-songwriter, he apparently also produced the hell out of the album.

"He was one of the most demonstrative producers I've ever worked with," Shah-Tayler says. "He would absolutely take you through the mental process of getting through it. Brilliant. He got exactly what he wanted and he got some of the best work out of me, as a pianist, that I have ever performed."

As for Phoenix's hip-hop aspirations, Shah-Taylor believes "he's quite capable of whatever he turns his hand to...Whatever it is, it will be genius, because I think he's close to genius."

We shall see. A rep for Phoenix's pal Casey Affleck told E! News last week that the documentary he was shooting about his friend's foray into hip-hop is now in postproduction.

Listen to Shah-Taylor's cover of "Cracked," penned and originally recorded by Phoenix and Langdon with Shah-Taylor on piano, right here.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b163337_inside_joaquin_phoenixs_brilliant.html