ok, so now the electro ep is necessary!

I finished "fireworks" finally as a proper thought out song. It fits perfectly onto the electro ep: maison d'être which I desperately want to release as the next ep to follow the current queued one : blah blah blahnik.... Impatience has always been my worst fault. How can people get used to something if they have not had the time to sit with it. I have that degree of OCD myself, so I cannot complain... Anyhow. I think fireworks might be a proper song at this point! X x night

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Ableton Live experimentations.

I am going to get used to running this Ableton thing.
I like the hands on approach to performances that require something a little different. I hope it works out. First try out for the new guitar/keyboard guy, Mister Zallen today, and he is very charming and talented, so I guess we will be blessed with his contributions very soon live.
Just bought the Climate of Hunter Scott Walker album, so yesterday was all about that record. I am going to try so hard to develop my croon. Can't get enough! x

So I am revisiting Peep Show on Hulu

Absolutely genius. A messed up view of life from the perspective of two flatmates in London. Very very funny

Mention of my Darling Nikki Cover!

http://lilwhy.com/post/346126904/julian-shah-taylor-darling-nikki-prince-cover

42 plays Get

Julian Shah-Taylor- Darling Nikki (Prince Cover)


A prince cover, in the nick of time (indie rock time, that is). These naughty lyrics inspired Tipper Gore to enforce advisory labels on questionable albums (soon her husband will be doing the same thing with SUVs, water bottles, and hairspray)

Darling Nikki better be 21 (0r 18 at the very least!) she surely know how to spice up your life!

Remakeover - Thetuft's comment on my cover of "Just Like Heaven"

Julian Shah-Tayler
This slowed-down, distorted version seems to answer the question, What if The Cure actually sounded like the contemporary emo bands they inspired? Dig that guitar solo!

http://blogs.tuftsdaily.com/thescene/?p=604

Tonight is a big one...

Tonight I play a show for Jeff Cahill at Aqua Lounge, Beverly Hills after attending the "Toscars" - an event arranged by Brits in LA lampooning the Oscars. Scott and I did 2 "adamandevil" versions of songs for one of the competing films. - Another Brick In The Wall and Do You Wanna Touch
Then tomorrow, an Oscars gifting suite event..... Busy days.

x x

Bomarr Blog mention! Thanks, Matt

2010-03-01
Julian Shah-Tayler - "Wetter"

julian shah-tayler - "wetter" (download)
Julian Shah-Tayler has some experience under his belt. Not only was he a member of Bomarr Blog favorites Whitey, but he recorded an album with Joaquin Phoenix. He's also gotten some praise from David J of Bauhaus. "Wetter" is from his Un Ange Passe EP that he recently released and dedicated to the memory of his friend Christine Shroy-Hull. This is a straight up, extremely catchy pop song that is sure to get Julian even more praise. You can stream or buy his music over at his Bandcamp page.
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Love Weekend.

I had probably one of the most wonderful weekends of life. Beautiful people, wonderful friends, a fabulous meal with my love at Katsuya, Hollywood.
I saw old friends like Montana, Hiair and had a fantastic rehearsal with my new band ready for the show on Thursday. Most excellent, people....
Ableton Live, the computer programme is a wonderful human and electronic interface, and is it possible/realistic to fall in love with a programme?
Bardot was a welcome excursion on saturday night, I felt welcomed and cherished even when I was not playing.....

x x x x Life x x x x

Mojophenia repost and lovely mention

http://mojophenia.blogspot.com/2010/02/roy-orbison-merchandise-julian-shah.html

"This Leonard Cohen cover was a pleasant surprise and not particularly distant from Julian`s current crop of material. A breathtaking talent that continues to draw influence from all the right places. Look out for the new release on the artist`s Bandcamp, review up soon."

Liberty London Girl blog post

Music: Julian Shah Tayler. Un Ange Passe

February 17, 2010 · 0 comments

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Hands down, one of my most oldest and most talented friends is the musician Julian Shah Tayler. Even when we were teenagers Julian was stupidly good – he sang, played guitar & piano and has gone on to write & produce all his own music. Last spring, I stayed for a while in the large rambling house in LA where he lives, and got to hear a lot of the work he is now releasing.

Before moving to LA, he toured & recorded with Whitey for three years, and now also writes for & plays in his band Adamandevil with his old bandmate Scott Fairbrother. He has lots of brilliant stories about working as a session musician with artists I can’t possible name but recently let slip to a journalist that he worked with Joaquin Phoenix on a brilliant album that will probably never see the light of day.

His latest solo single, “Un Ange Passe” was released on the 1st of January and is available on iTunes here and for free download via donation here, and his debut album, “Coito Ergo Sum” is due for release later on this spring on Impossible Things Records Do check it out.

link to my Leonard Cover:

http://covermesongs.blogspot.com/2010/02/cover-news-february-13-2010.html

Thanks to Cover Me blogspot! x x

Leonard Cohen

I am dismayed to find and hear that Leonard is unwell, and is suffering from a compressed lower back injury.
I was stupid enough to miss his recent performances in Los Angeles and Coachella. I was, however blessed with the experience of rehearsing at SIR, and on visiting the restroom (lavatory to us Brits) standing next to a very elegant gentleman in the process of relieving himself. Thoughtlessly my eye was involuntarily drawn his way. I nearly dropped mine..... Leonard was human, after all.
I had to exchange niceties, as to leave without engaging the living god would have been inconceivable.
I did not have time to divulge that I had been a fan for many many years (prior to my knowledge of Jeff, actually) and had finished a recording of his most heart breaking moment: Joan Of Arc with my friends Sofizel and Victoria Butterfly. Anyhow, I have sent the version to Cover me, who recently posted my covers of Darling Nikki and Cracked by Joaquin Phoenix. Hopefully you can hear it soon!

Inglorious Basterds

Terrible movie, like seriously. Gratuitous and badly scripted. Appalling premise, historically inaccurate, and not even entertaining in the slightest bit. Squirming...
Bright Star: Dreadful. How can so promoted and feted movies both be such a mess?

Sorry, Jane Campion and Tarantino. Such a lot of promise, and they both left off what makes a movie good.... Plot and intrigue.

So Bardot was crazy last night.

Some kid from Sum 41 sang Rebel Rebel, and Maiya (new singer and a teacher) completely blew everyone away with her soul and Diva voice...
I got to do Lola and Shadowplay (a reprise of the last time I performed)
Next week, Adamandevil are playing a show on thursday and myself and the Impossible Things are playing a TV/interview "gig" on friday..... Awesome.

x x

Tonight at Bardot

I am singing Lola by the Kinks tonight at Bardot. it should be great, as Nikka Costa is also performing. She is obviously amazing also! x x

Haiti benefit show tomorrow night

I am playing a benefit for the Haiti relief charity tomorrow night (wednesday) at the Old Town Pub in Pasadena. It is 5 dollars entry, and I am on with my new band, "the Impossible Things" after 10pm.
I hope you can make it! x x

Television. Billy Ficca... And Me!

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs292.ash1/21973_280983331692_502636692_3562664_2063725_n.jpg

Playing for old stars

So last night, the debut/inaugural show for my new band as we played at Isla Cantina for Angie Bowie and Roy Rogers' Haiti benefit. In attendance and also playing on our equipment was Billy, (drummer from Television) and Tequila Mockingbird.
Everyone was very pleased and loved the show.
Very encouraging! I am also invited to become resident DJ in the same venue, starting ASAP.

Could be a great year, this 2010!

Julian x x x

Insimile - poetry

call to me like a bird
and drown my senses
in soft clinging caresses
and wordless communion

dance to me like a fire
in flickering delight
consuming and illuminating
with tongues of flame

run to me in a river
crave emotions to the sea
in waves breaking over me
torrential and irresistible

bathe me like the moonlight
in shimmering strands
unravel my darkness
and banish my shades

embrace me like the smoke
that drapes its narcotic cloak
on my fragmented fantasies
and dreams them real

blanket me like the snow
that numbs my pain
and blesses my wounds
with its soothing glow

devour me like the end of the world
and grant me living oblivion
eternal and divine
in your celestial anodyne

Relax - poetry

relax, this is the future;
this subtle bludgeon,
this assault in tenderness
where we choose our own execution

relax, this is absolution;
this aloof intimacy,
this touching by proxy
where we cleanse our original sin

relax, this is heaven;
this calm tempest,
this dancing static
where we live through television

relax, this is experience;
this blind vision,
this attraction by opposites
where we dissolve ourselves in others

relax, this is understanding;
this shy exhibition,
this knowledge through innocence
where we swallow defeat

where i am a warrior,
and you are a priest

softpedia article

Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix has managed to do what many deemed impossible: make a “perfect” music album that would never see the light of day. Precisely one year ago, the star said he would retire from acting to pursue a career in music, kicking it off with a couple not too stellar rap performances in Las Vegas. Today, courtesy of E! Online, we have the first details of the album that will never be.

As the e-zine puts it after speaking with musician Julian Shah-Tayler, who worked closely with Phoenix this past year, the album he recorded is the closest thing to perfection. The problem is we will never get to hear it because this is what makes it so special: if Joaquin would have simply gone ahead and released it, it would not have been so out of the ordinary and awesome as it is now, Shah-Tayler believes.
“He’s a Beatles, Oasis, Bowie-style songwriter. I hold it in that high esteem. He’s accomplished just about everything anyone could accomplish as an artist. 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-Tayler says for E!, hinting that the masterpiece on which Phoenix has been working for about a year will remain long lost.

This, of course, is not to say that he’s not worth all the praise in the world. “He was one of the most demonstrative producers I’ve ever worked with. 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. […] 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,” Shah-Tayler further explains.

Apparently, he and Phoenix worked on eight new tracks that the actor himself wrote, and recorded in his in-house studio. All the while the album was in production, Phoenix was neither acting erratically nor the lethargic guy fans saw on David Letterman, with Shah-Tayler describing him as “bubbly” and “effervescent.”

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Details-Emerge-on-Brilliant-Joaquin-Phoenix-Album-133100.shtml

Publishing meeting

Scott and I went for a publishing meeting today with Danny to talk about the deal with Music Sales. Everything went great. Can't wait to get my teeth into finishing the record, and taking everything to the next level....
Good things come to those who wait, I guess after all!

x x xx

Force Of Habit - lyrics

http://julianshah-tayler.bandcamp.com/album/blah-blah-blahnik

Can't eat, you can't sleep
Watching kiss scars splintering the concrete
Where sin town and sick city meet

In shock, you're looking good
You're just another dog, barking up at Hollywood
Just close your eyes and pretend you're alive

Wait for your flags to unfurl and bear the weight of the world
Under the force of habit
And when your bridges all burn, you'll bear the weight of the world
Under the force of habit

Wanna know what you want
Let my libido take you to a restaurant
I'll get you drunk and then I'll get you high

You lose your mind, you lose your clothes
And I won't stop until we're both comatose
Just close your eyes and pretend your alive

Wait for your flags to unfurl and bear the weight of the world
Under the force of habit
And when your bridges all burn, you'll bear the weight of the world
Under the force of habit

So many people that you meet will tell you lies
So many places you drag your feet are paradise
So many things that you rather be you fantasise
And after all you might as well commit suicide

Wait for your flags to unfurl and bear the weight of the world
Under the force of habit
And when your bitches all burn, you'll bear the weight of the world
Under the force of habit

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

I know who my "free pass" should be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DuPr3GuyvQ

Thinking about you, by Norah Jones.....

Bandcamp site might be removed.

It disappeared for a brief moment, which I guess I was expecting.... The Joaquin song was the contentious issue, I guess. Hope they are not going to remove it....

First rehearsal

So today I had my first full band rehearsal for the new set, total rock and roll. Total balls out rock and roll, baby.
Drummer: Ryan is awesome, and a full on rock monster, tight as anyone could wish, affable to a fault, and learned the whole thing beautifully.
Guitarist: Shawn is the survivor from the pack, and amazing. Sweet as a nut, man sweet like tropicana.
Guitarist: Chad is awesome and learned everything perfectly.
Bass player is still pending, although Nick filled in for now, and being a consummate professional, enabled the run through perfectly well.

Setlist draws from past and future:

1: Show Me Your Soul
2: Manifesto (old drinkme tune)
3: Force Of Habit
4: Darling Nikki (Prince Cover)
5: Wetter
6: Buildings Burn Down
7: Candlelight? if we can get round to learning it!

8: Communication
9: Beautiful World

Shows are being looked at at Cafe Was where it would be a more laid back approach with a grand piano in the mix, Bardot where we would rock hard! There is a proper show on the 3rd of Feb at the Old Town Pub, Pasadena, inaugural band show!
Moscow is also being talked about for sometime later in feb, early in March alongside Tiki's band Piel (awesome as they come...)

Joaquin Phoenix cover and the interview

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

So I did the interview with E! at my house to talk about working with Joaquin (Phoenix) and Antony (Langdon).
My immediate reaction was to be a little worried that it might be an attempted tabloid hatchet job, because of all the negative press that Mister Phoenix has been getting for his rap foray.
I relistened to the old album, and discovered that I do genuinely really like it, and have a deal of affection for the songs. I thought to express this heartfelt feeling in the interview. I may have overstated this in retrospect, and the quotes from me are hilariously overamped with too many superlatives flying around. I remember being asked if I thought Joaquin was a genius, and in reply I said that he was "very talented" This, of course has been misquoted.
Anyhow, as to the cover... I debated as to whether it was respectful of the writers to do a version of a song that I played on that has as yet not been released.
I have been asked hundreds of times by people who are interested in the project, what style it was in and why it was not released. Short of passing out copies of the record (as I have it in my possession) which of course is completely out of the question, I thought to at least indicate the direction of the songs, and the quality of the writing, if not also Joaquin's prodigious production skills, being served merely by my own abilities in this area.
I hope Joaq and Antony will forgive me my indiscretion, and enjoy the tribute as it was intended, which is with Love and respect!

Julian x x

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

Angel (For an angel)

From one whose reaches outstretches his grasp
From the Capulet tomb to the kiss of the asp
"I wander down corridors, find no open doors"
But an angel for an angel sees heaven on earth

To one whose radiance blanches the moon
A thief, like an old god who appears in a room
"I step out of the rain and into the storm"
But an angel for an angel sees heaven on earth

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

So I have managed to do the EPs

There are now 4 EPs and an album in the pipeline.
Here are the covers:
"Un Ange Passe"


"Blah Blah Blahnik"


"Fill Your Joys With Love"


"Maison d'Etre"


"Coito Ergo Sum"

I am pretty sure that is the order in which they will come out. You can preview them all on Last FM, but I would wait until they are officially released. No one needs a deluge of material! They are all also very distinct in style.... I am so looking forward to taking a break one of these days. Probably when I go to Manila!

x x

I love this man (purely platonic ofcourse)

Please check out amazing go-to guy for fantastic musical recommendations, brilliant directing skills and general all round wonderful human beingness... Victor Ridaura in his new column: Geekweek : - "music you should know":
http://www.geekweek.com/2010/01/music-you-should-know-la-roux.html

Breakthrough Band interview.

December 7th 2009

Your Music: Julian Shah-Taylor

JulianShahTaylor

http://www.impossiblethingsrecords.com/shah/



Julian Shah-Taylor, self-producing artist, speaks with Breakthrough Band about his music and offers an inside look at the path he is trekking.



Breakthrough Band: How would you describe your music?



Julian Shah-Taylor: I would describe it as varied and informed by all sorts of different influences. I love all sorts of music from Classical to Avant Garde electronica and everything in between, so I like to reference as much as I can to make something beautiful that is unclassifiable. I would like it to be sensual and thoughtful.




BB: How do you produce your music?



JST: I record everything in my bedroom on a laptop and use one SM58 to mic everything from vocals to dulcimer/toy piano. I mix in Protools and play everything live, except for Arp Synths, which kind of play themselves!





BB: As a new artist, what was the biggest challenge that you have had to overcome?



JST: Distancing myself from what is expected of me from my previous bands. Also, getting trapped into a particular bracket. It is also impossible to find dedicated musicians who can put the time in that I would like.




BB: What is your favorite social networking or media web site and why?



JST: Facebook, because it is a lot more personal than the others.




BB: What advice do you have for others who are looking to start a band or market their music?



JST: Define your audience, target them, and mean it. Never do it for the wrong reasons…it is obvious and that comes through in the music.





Check out Julian’s Music Here:

www.impossiblethingsrecords.com/shah

www.myspace.com/juliandrinkme

www.facebook.com/jshahtayler

www.twitter.com/julianshah

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

http://www.breakthroughband.com/Series/YourMusic/YourMusic_JulianShahTaylor.html

Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici

Watched V for Vendetta last night again, and was very happy to say that it lived up to my very vague memories of enjoying it (having watched it in a time of shall we say "diminished resposibility" through the lost years) Nathan borrowed and never returned anything I lent him, actually. He still has some subconscious knowledge of where he hid it, I guess. Tiki is NOT a fan, as she made clear to me last night!
I recommend it wholeheartedly if you have not seen it. I believe that Natalie Portman does a great, and pretty realistic version of a little English girl, although I have to say most Brits are a little bigger than her!
The message is so poignant for everyone, and is certainly not beholden to the English only.

I subsequently watched "The Queen" with Helen Mirren, and I just have to say if I did not love my Grandmother so dearly, I would wish for Helen to be my surrogate... Fantastic film.....

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A stream of consciousness piece. Supposed to be telling of your state of mind. Was not recent, btw....

stream

the wives make me horrified in a big dart green overstuffed teddy-boy and electric cars being the result of several little species of experimental monkey grades and phoned it to the moon space of the ears through the space of the cretan cetaceous and bloody nose speaking english for you guys and special results well corrected through series of hypotheses not resulting in a tepid reaction hello to the space-boy and tangled up in blizzards of the snow records a couple of pleasure units reunited with the step in razor lines thematically linked with some other being that i cannot hope to compete with a superior intellect wonderful youth and aged trough piggies and reckless angels reenacting a private war internally cranial fluids dripping through the instamatic and breathing a certain level of hydro-carbonic flagellating oxygenated and sulphuric benzoate terrifying notes music that twists the fragile mind around the levels of hurt and engenders a little piece of wonderful masturbatory torture becoming levels plates shifting and cubes manoeuvering a little danse macabre revolting crushed energies pulped thoughts revival of physical meandering trickling voices talking in languages that have no sound leaves from the ram roots in the subway sex in the underground between and off the rails behind and underneath clouds or grit and blood crystalising on form off liberation the horrifying clutch of cash and remunerating by distillation big in the front of beacons a little light distraction from the inevitable fall the inevitable lesions the inevitable destruction of the one and being like the bang and the bong results in a closure of health strong body strong in mind strong in beast and animal hedge bleed bleed bleed bleed bleed and rejoice letting holes appear where the pins originate from your own piss and can’t fall between the gaps in the epidermis skin raped by light and musky bent belief con-sister reef coral organism orgasm organ orchestra front line opera beesting berating did not keep happy did not become organic lift shafts living with one’s own enemy exile in the mirror refugees in cedar in solomon decree percolate an idea to half a pendulum swinging with a strange fruit popular tree bungee leaping into holes and fingers in your eyes tongue in your ass scratching your thighs and ripping your tights with hair not bruised and plucked and ripped from the roots blades and needles sharp and shape in aspic roman oblivion incredulous out aloud from the beginning of a new way of thinking where anything can be advice anything is a vice in a vise and vice versa crippling thought and stunting growth like bonsai mind writing automatic on a typewriter where pen and pencil never touches paper never leaves a mark and intangible program means always loss when electric failure brings shutdown of tubes with suspicion of terrorists in the bushes and under the beds running scared and sacred in the park believed to miss the sanctity of life running towards a dreamed for revolt against breath touching hearts with unknown missives towards the unthought-of love never disappears with a cut off like the end of something beautiful i live me i love you i love you and you love me and that is always going to be a mystery hell something had to rhyme and make sense or who would read this crap only i would if i wanted to one lost afternoon i think that my fingers smell of you and they do and i want to have you here and i want to fuck you again and again and i am talking myself into a frenzy and i sit and wait like a mushroom for a bizarre intrusion that will let me understand something i wasn’t looking for in the first place all work and no play can only give me no play no play no play soon play and more work than ever do not leave this house that many years built i need to live and forget the battalions that consistently tease my conscience and remove my confidence and content to confellate conmen unconditionally coming towards some kind of a conflagration sounding like a fucking dictionary or a thesaurus unselfconsciously and ridiculously believing a title plastic identity crisis paper saving devices that fill a thousand rooms and a gigabyte hell land because of you my heart’s in two because the sandpaper inside the skull removes more than a layer of the raw and leaves a synonym and i don’t really know what that means at least not define it until i really need to and not thinking in english just feeling a keyboard and suggestions of leaders and minty flaps forward to music that i never did see and pictures unheard heralding something pathetic and eclectic electric too many use one word many too many times too free hours become minutes and this is an hour am i restless and am i full of tea and my flates darting perusing pretentious english student no work no care no fluke no flair when lechery becomes more important than flagellation and blackmail a substitute for amyl but no ecstasy making brain more astute and concentration being a little more sharper a little more rasp hold grip hairs and crawling walls spiderman always wanted batman always noticed dark and mystery lurks in the corners of a chasm attitude to abyssitude bring on the staring with a thematic reference to dante to nietszche and to shirk-a-garde dutch inventing american strangulation big brother stomping on little brother my friends little people my friends becoming like the others why is the end of the affair sometimes the most pleasurable time there is no unconditional and there are always lies and they come from the closest and they come to the closest don’t tell the truth tell the what they want to hear always bring a shower and leave with the free soap in love bring a shotgun and leave with a bullet for your gun firing close to the bone sometimes truth hurts the teller more than the receiver bring it on bring a chrome barrel spend it well inside thighs lick

Show Me Your Soul- EP artwork ready to go:

Adventure into the world

Making this look pretty.
Went to the Forth magazine party on the weekend, and was very interested in what makes people interested in non-sequitur words and who denotes it poetry..... I submitted some of my poetry to the magazine to see if they would justify it into "art"....
Went to see Danny this evening with Scott, and met a lovely man, I believe he is called "Amp" who used to be signed to Elektra and played in P-Funk for a while. Very nice person. His 18 year old son died last year, which makes my heart sink, and prayers fly to him from inside. He deserves solace. Hope that herbal cleanse works, Brother!
Anyhoo, this week, I have the E! interview tomorrow, and purportedly the Publishing meeting with Barry at Muisc Sales for an Adamandevil deal. Great stuff! Just beginning to get seriously addicted to Scott Walker and Animal Collective.
Also, I finished my cover of "Cracked" by Joquin Phoenix which I decided to make available as part of the "Fill Your Joys With Love" EP on Bandcamp:

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

I love Louis Theroux

http://quicksilverscreen.com/watch?video=33106

And if you have not already bought. you must!

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=11755

Chase the Tear: Portishead

I love it when.....

I find a tune that is worth listening to, and does something perfect and beautiful. Try Hot Chip's new one:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11653-take-it-in/
Avatar also was incredible against all my better judgements.

I have been working with Cameron on her masterwork: The Big I Am (Should that be in ALL capitals)
I have also agreed to be interviewed by E! network on my experiences working with Joaquin Phoenix, and consequently revisiting his songs that I played piano and percussion/sang on. Joaquin was not vocalising, but Antony Langdon from Spacehog was doing a fantastic job of that himself.
I think I am going to do a cover of the song "Cracked" so anyone who is interested might have the opportunity to hear Joaq's prodigious and most respectable songwriting talent.... alongside my best efforts of course!
The song, "Show me your soul" which I wrote for Antony Green's painting of Imelda Marcos' shoes is finished, and he is going to present her with it, and prepare a PR campaign for the whole project in the Phillippines asap alongside a worldwide press release! I will be publishing a limited edition "Greatest Hits" EP for Bandcamp so people can download and listen. Maybe I will put the Joaq cover on that..... two birds with one pebble...... Here are the lyrics for that song:

Show Me Your Soul - A song for Imelda

I've seen empires rise and fall out of the sky,
I've watched history unfold like the iron butterfly
I've danced through life with diamonds on my feet
Along the road that runs right to my destiny

If you wanna walk a mile in my shoes
Show me your soul
One of these days they'll walk all over you
Show me your soul

I am the morning star that brightens up the sky
I am the rose that plucks the thorns out of your side
I am the muse to blinks the angels to your eye
As the sorrow that we face defines our joy

If you wanna walk a mile in my shoes
Show me your soul
One of these days they'll walk all over you
Show me your soul

And your laughter fills with tears
And they're falling through the years
As the world keeps turning round

And there's no time left to cry
So your sorrow fills with joy
As the road keeps rolling on

 

Also, going with Scott to meet Danny Saber to discuss the terms of the publishing that we are looking at with Music Sales.