ARTIST: Alex Taylor and the Evil Eye
TITLE: Alex Taylor and the Evil Eye
LABEL: Self Released
GENRE: Instrumental
BITRATE: 178kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 48m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-00-00
RIP DATE: 2007-06-04
Track List
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1. Evil Eye 6:15
2. Sacrament 4:58
3. Time And Place 5:41
4. Salvonia 2:35
5. Heavens Gate 6:01
6. Gypsy Air 4:30
7. Zeitgeist 3:11
8. Darkstar 5:01
9. Witches Sebbat 5:46
10. Halls Of Sorrow 4:58
Release Notes:
"The eye is like a lamp for the body. If therefore thine eye be clear, then thy
body shall be filled with light, but if thine eye be evil, then thy whole body
shall be filled with darkness." - Luke:11:34.
Alex Taylor began playing the violin at the age of 8 and has been performing
classical concerts with orchestras, ensembles and solo since 12. At 18 he was
accepted into the University of Southern Queensland where he was placed in the
performance stream, which had a strong emphasis on technical proficiency and
concert performance of the classical repertoire.
During this time, however, he started hanging out with some jazz cats who used
to stay up all night drinking, smoking, talking philosophy and being generally
bad as well as jamming out some extremely sophisticated and innovative
improvisations that Alex soon learned to emulate. Despite the slightly
detrimental effect this lifestyle had on his more formal classical studies, Alex
graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Honours), although somewhere along the line
the desire for a quiet life in an orchestra was overtaken by an insatiable need
to become an international rock god of experimental violin.
Directly after he had finished his studies, he decided to get a taste of the
european music scene and move to England. He was not long there before he had
teamed up with a group of idealistic romantics who called themselves 'The Stroud
Football Poets'. The group would write and perform their own theatrical musicals
- occasionally in maximum security prisons, a la Johnny Cash. The English music
scene afforded Alex an ideal opportunity to soak up the local history and
culture, absorbing into his playing style the traditional Celtic flavours picked
up in the back rooms of seedy pubs and taverns, whilst supping upon many a
tankard of fine British ale.
After about three years, Alex relocated to Melbourne where he immediately fell
in with some of the most influential musicians around, and began playing with
'Mushroom Giant' and 'Boy Who Spoke Clouds' as well as his own band, 'Alex
Taylor and the Evil Eye'.
This has proved to be a perfect platform for Alex's evolving musical style.
Alex's dark and passionate violin is perfectly complimented by lap-top wizard
Simon Quinn (formerly of 'Little Bird'), providing electronica, keyboards and
programming, and more recently the deep and soulful 'cello sounds of Francesca
Mountfort (see her solo project at www.myspace.com/nervousdolldancing).
The music has been variously described as being; "A delightful homage to the
beauty of the night", "A wonderful, achingly sensual, bewilderingly lovely aural
representation of Heaven, such as to make our Maker weep" and so on and so
forth....