ARTIST: Evan Voytas
TITLE: Introducing Evan Voytas
LABEL: Self-Released
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 175kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 21m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-00-00
RIP DATE: 2008-03-17
Track List
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1. We'd Be Good Together 3:16
2. Bad Attitude 4:03
3. Reputation 2:21
4. The Yellow World of '83 4:57
5. Shake It 3:20
6. My My, Those Eye 2:32
7. Everything is Fine 1:03
Release Notes:
Evan Voytas doesn't know where he is or what he is doing, and it is this mindset
that has dropped him into the most extraordinary environs. At 24 years old, the
singer/multi-instrumentalist has taken these experiences and developed his own
brand of catchy pop music that sounds like Cat Stevens experimenting with party
drugs.
Born in rural Pennsylvania, Evan was raised on the oldies, listening to his
father's cassette tapes of Elvis and the Righteous Brothers. As a teenager, he
discovered jazz. At age 18, he moved to Harlem where he immersed himself in
various religious texts and 70's new age paperbacks. He grew a beard and
befriended a group of Franciscan friars because they too had beards. Together,
they enjoyed hours of silent reflection as well as family-style pasta dinners.
It was here in New York that Voytas cultivated his musicianship. Studying music
at the City College of New York, Evan started his own quartet and began making a
name for himself in the modern jazz scene. Then he left.
Voytas boarded a Greyhound bus and settled on an Indian pueblo in northern New
Mexico. After a few months meandering in the desert, Evan returned to New York
City, shaved the beard, and found himself playing lead guitar and singing
back-up for teen-pop phenom Teddy Geiger. Evan's charismatic stage performances
started to gain attention as he toured the world with Teddy, and he soon
discovered that he had developed his own following, complete with internet fan
clubs. After completing the tour, Evan again retreated into obscurity, moving
into a farmhouse in his native Pennsylvania. Here, at the end of a dirt road,
Evan set up a studio and began recording the songs that would become his debut
EP.
With influences ranging from T. Rex to Daft Punk, Evan's music is a new sound.
Voytas writes an instantly familiar tune, but frames it with a sonic landscape
that simultaneously references '60s pop and Baltimore Club music. The result is
something that sounds like Burt Bacharach and Bjork collaborating in a bedroom
studio.
In 2008, Evan continues to write and perform his music, and will release a
7-song EP, "Introducing Evan Voytas."