I've pondered about certain instrumentals by Tom Waits ("Rainbirds" is one of the lovely instrumental pieces by anyone in any genre), but somehow didn't think about the angle of Waits as an instrumental artist--guess I hadn't realized just how many of them he's recorded. I must make a playlist, or find one that already exists.
You just close your eyes and visualise the cigarette slowly burning itself away in a black marble ashtray sat atop of the weathered piano while the glass collector silently picks up the last empty glasses and the old ‘fella’ gently mops the floor in time with the nodding melody oozing out into the early hours of downtown New York in the rain. #beautiful
I would like to hear more about your take on Tom Waits' persona. How much does it influence the way you understand his music and in what sense? What if the persona didn't exist and Tom Waits was on stage the very same Tom Waits he his at home? What about if the persona was the real Tom Waits and no other different aspect of his personality existed? This relationship between public and private life and between daily life and life on stage it's something about which I think a lot while I'm composing my songs. The story of the song, its universe, gets bigger than me, bigger than us...
I've pondered about certain instrumentals by Tom Waits ("Rainbirds" is one of the lovely instrumental pieces by anyone in any genre), but somehow didn't think about the angle of Waits as an instrumental artist--guess I hadn't realized just how many of them he's recorded. I must make a playlist, or find one that already exists.
You just close your eyes and visualise the cigarette slowly burning itself away in a black marble ashtray sat atop of the weathered piano while the glass collector silently picks up the last empty glasses and the old ‘fella’ gently mops the floor in time with the nodding melody oozing out into the early hours of downtown New York in the rain. #beautiful
I would like to hear more about your take on Tom Waits' persona. How much does it influence the way you understand his music and in what sense? What if the persona didn't exist and Tom Waits was on stage the very same Tom Waits he his at home? What about if the persona was the real Tom Waits and no other different aspect of his personality existed? This relationship between public and private life and between daily life and life on stage it's something about which I think a lot while I'm composing my songs. The story of the song, its universe, gets bigger than me, bigger than us...