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Steve Taylor
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- Oakland
- United States
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Steve Taylor
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- artist
- Website:
- http://www.stevetaylormusic.com/
- City/Town/Locality:
- Oakland
- Genres/Styles:
- Soul, Folk
- Bio:
- Steve Taylor's musical journey started out as a toddler in Sacramento, where he would rock out to his mom's Captain & Tennile records. Easy listening was the music of choice for the Taylor family. And although he grew to loathe KCTC ("soft music that makes you feel good") during the synth pop heyday of the early-mid 80's, there was no getting around it's ubiquitous presence.
A fan of "The Unforgettable Fire" era U2, and his older brother's Police records, Steve's life was later irrevocably changed when he discovered progressive rock. How could music be so good, all the while incorporating thematic elements that he was studying in junior high history class! Steve set out to convince the world of the panaceaic qualities of Rush before a brutal battle with organized religion and Nintendo sidelined him for a decade or so.
Eventually, Steve recovered somewhat, and as a sheer result of not wanting to do math homework, decided to become a music major in college. He studied classical guitar, jazz piano, composition, vocals, and in the process became incredibly indecisive and whimsical. He flirted with the jazz and funk worlds, becoming comfortable with them before deciding that singing and writing songs would be where he would find his ultimate bliss.
This sense of duality has led him to coexist in the improvisational realms as well as writing pop songs that would make Burt Bacharach proud. Now fluent on many instruments, he would play almost every single note on his debut self titled EP, recorded in Seattle at Jupiter and Aleph studios. In it he came around full circle, incorporating the easy listening music that he once resented, merging it with more modern elements of Radiohead and Stereolab.
On February 10th, 2008, Steve Taylor debuted his new album "Has the Size of the Road Got the Better of You?" at Cafe DuNord in San Francisco. A song cycle about being lost and found on the road of life, it was recorded sporadically over the last 3 and a half years by the likes of Aaron Prellwitz (Neil Young and Crazy Horse) and Jay Pellicci (Deerhoof), both at home and at the venerable Tiny Telephone Studio in SF. Again an almost completely solo record, he played every note on every song, except for the Philly soul revival track "Felicity" and the ABC afterschool special jam "One More for the Road", which feature his friends from New York's math rock via jazz outfit, The Benevento Russo Organ and Drums Duo.
Plans in 2009 include touring internationally, and the recording of two full length releases, one a stripped down acoustic record and the other an electrified rock&roll record. Stay tuned for more.
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