Sky White Tiger (USA)
Louis Schwadron, Mastermind des New Yorker Projekts Sky White Tiger, arbeitete mit weltbekannten Acts wie Radiohead, David Bowie, Rufus Wainwright , St. Vincent, The National etc., und war Gründungsmitglied der Band Polyphonic Spree, die zwischen 2004 und 2010 mit bemerkenswerten Alben und Auftritten rund um die Welt für Aufsehen sorgten.
Louis aber stieg 2010 aus, um sich seinem neuen, eigenen Projekt Sky White Tiger zu widmen.
Er hatte eine eigne Philosophie im Kopf und die Dinge, die er kreativ umsetzen wollte, passten nicht mehr in den eingeschränkten Rahmen des im Hintergrund agierender Zuspielers. Die Passgenauigkeit lag zwar bei fast 100% , doch es ist an der Zeit, dass Louis selber die Punkte wirft.
Als SKY WHITE TIGER schreibt er alle Songs selbst , und seiner Kreativität sind keine Grenzen gesetzt. Die Musik hat sich von einer rockorientierten Bandphilosophie, zu James Blake / Chet Faker / Sohn- ähnlichen, sehr modernen und dance-kombatiblen Elektro-Sounds entwickelt, die aber den Song als wichtiges ursprüngliches Element nicht vergisst.
Dabei bleibt die unglaubliche Energie der Songs auf einem hohen Level. Die Performance bietet immer wieder Überraschungen, live ist es eine Explosion musikalischer und künstlerischer Kreativität und Originalität, ein Genuss für Ohren, Augen, Beine und Hirn...
BB-Booking präsentiert im Zeitraum vom 28. Juli bis 16. August 2015 Sky White Tiger live auf deutschen Bühnen.
__________________________
Blurring lines between fantasy and reality, Louis Schwadron (former Polyphonic Spree) took matters into his own paws, birthing psych-pop alter ego SKY WHITE TIGER. After a decade of writing, recording, performing as multi-instrumentalist with Radiohead, David Bowie, Elton John, Sufjan Stevens, Grizzly Bear, The National, St. Vincent, and a batch of supporting US tour dates with Rufus Wainwright, Schwadron has completed a debut LP Electra and a new EP Child of Fire for touring in 2015 and beyond. With a blend of acoustic, electronic and a touch of the cinematic, Sky White Tiger can expand from solo to a 5 piece band, performing on stages, art galleries, planetarium domes – fusing sound, light, and fantasy – transforming any space into the Tiger Realm of the endless imagination.
Come Meowt and Play
Those already familiar with Louis Schwadron know that every performance he mounts is a unique, not-to-be-missed occasion. Prized for his versatility by such artists as Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright and film director John Cameron Mitchell, with whom he has collaborated on stage and in the studio, Schwadron is an endlessly imaginative composer-conceptualist and an intriguing shape-shifter. Within the last five years, one could find him, for example, at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, Normway, playing French Horn with his erstwhile band The Polyphonic Spree and enjoying photo ops with hosts Oprah Winfrey and Tom Cruise. Or he might be juggling roles as music maestro, director’s right-hand man and extras wrangler on the set of Mitchell’s X-rated love letter to New York City, Shortbus. Make that “sex-tras” wrangler —it was Schwadron who corralled the free-spirited players who populated the Sex Not Bombs room during the more magical than notorious orgy scenes in the critically acclaimed film. Then there is all the sideman work he’s regularly engaged in, working with performers ranging from Elton John to Sufjan Stevens, Ray Charles to The National, just to name a few.
As leader of Sky White Tiger, the format may be simpler, but his ambitions are no less high-flying: “Sky White Tiger is as much an idea, or a collection of ideas, as it is a person or band or set of songs. Really, it’s a constellation of moments, people, energies, coming together at each show. It’s something we conjure together as musicians and audience, bridging that nebulous space between conscious and subconscious. My favorite music is the kind that throws me into a trance and allows the mood to take over. That’s the kind of music I want to make with all of the musicians I play with.”
The sound of Sky White Tiger cannot be encapsulated in a word or two; there’s a Bowie-like breadth to the songs that Schwadron has created in the studio with Brooklyn-based producer Bryce Goggins for the group’s debut EP – it’s dreamily psychedelic at times, ambitiously symphonic at others. A Juilliard graduate and multi-instrumentalist, Schwadron is especially gifted as an arranger, and he’s created work adaptable to ever-changing lineups. As Schwadron explains, “We’re happy to play as a five-piece band or with DJ a full orchestra. As long as I feel like there is a marriage of vocals, melodic textures and rhythmic drive, then I we feel we have the ability to cast a spell over the evening.”
Schwadron is a 21st century dream weaver, acknowledging his forebears while creating something utterly new. There are hints of seventies prog, eighties synth rock and up-to-the-minute Radiohead in his work, though Schwadron would not lay claim to being part of one specific scene or style. Says Schwadron, “I love synths, drums, guitars,” but, given his taste for the surreal, he doesn’t stop there: “I love future sounds, dawn of time sounds. I love nature’s explosions and eruptions. I love the sounds of heavy breathing and media malfunctions. I love the sound a television dumped into a river.”
Though Schwadron loves to discuss his work and is something of a comedian, mingling a little self-deprecating Woody Allen humor off stage to counterbalance his body-talking Prince moves on stage, he doesn’t like to say much during a gig: “I like the music to do the communicating. We connect each song with rehearsed or improvised interludes—linking a number of songs together into more of an orchestral movement or live concept-album feel. This way, no matter what the specific set list brings in terms of varying styles and tempos, the overall feel of being immersed in a kind of oceanic soundscape remains the same.”
Come witness Sky White Tiger. Join the evolution.
– Michael Hill
___________________
https://www.facebook.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
