At the Casa del Popolo was held yesterday evening, launching Back of My Head, the new EP by singer-songwriter Ben Wilkins Montreal. The music of singer that I discovered last summer during an impromptu visit to the Coffee Convenience Store (and I commented in this post ), had stopped rocking my ears since, contributing to restore my faith in the song emerging, thanks to his exceptional gifts as a composer and arranger. At the time of going to the theater, the thermometer was close to 30 degrees below zero. We learn these days at our expense: you have to brave the cold so we want achieve the heat ...
The piano was placed to the left of the stage. At right, four chairs awaited the arrival of a string quartet, behind a battery was circumvented by two microphones, and a little right, a small space for the bassist. Although the presence of classical instruments was obvious, the aura radiated training of pop music. Ben Wilkins tells it on his Facebook page, " Back of My Head was recorded with real instruments played by real musicians." A statement which is not trivial, considering the amount of artists, often very famous, which, increasingly, are using the mail rather than real musicians to record their material.
singer-songwriter seemed taciturn and sociable at once seized by this major event, the arrival of this first installment in the music scene. Quickly returned to a clear appreciation, Wilkins, whose voice betrays his natural gifts as a singer, has invaded the sound space through songs that have the gift of surprise, even after several hearings. Enriched by the presence of talented Quartet Portrait of a Lady (these 4 musicians each taking their bow showed an unprecedented musicality), these songs were a canvas full of colors, shades and cadenzas warm and slightly devilish, evoking both the penetrating charm of classical music that groove of a Stevie Wonder or Jamiroquai. Side of the instrumentation, bass, drums and piano trio were in complicity, while arrangements for strings, Ben Wilkins signed, we confirmed, once again, the undeniable talent of the songwriter for the writing music; inventive counterpoint, clarity of inner voices, patterns in succession forced us to never get away from the central core of the music simple and complex at once. Wilkins is a composer born, the likes of those capable of bringing out a new musical idea every 10 steps. Result? music of astonishing simplicity and that's good.
I could not help but slip a word to the singer after delivery. "You made my month," I told him, still crossed by his best tunes. Friends were waiting at the bend, and I was getting ready to face the cold again. These songs are so beautiful that I want 30 more like that, "I started Shefteshy Pascal, co director of the EP, with Wilkins. Shefteshy told me quietly that the Montreal musician already has several new songs in the bank. What would I not give to hear them now! Was I so thirsty? Without doubt, and the reason is quite simple, is that I rarely come across a source of this quality. I prefer to quench my thirst so immediately, because as we know, time passes and the music, the real, is increasingly rare.
I could not help but slip a word to the singer after delivery. "You made my month," I told him, still crossed by his best tunes. Friends were waiting at the bend, and I was getting ready to face the cold again. These songs are so beautiful that I want 30 more like that, "I started Shefteshy Pascal, co director of the EP, with Wilkins. Shefteshy told me quietly that the Montreal musician already has several new songs in the bank. What would I not give to hear them now! Was I so thirsty? Without doubt, and the reason is quite simple, is that I rarely come across a source of this quality. I prefer to quench my thirst so immediately, because as we know, time passes and the music, the real, is increasingly rare.
I say again and again: THE songwriter Ben Wilkins is now to discover here and elsewhere.
Useful links: http://www.benwilkinsmusic.com/
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