![]() ![]() ![]() Waits is the only white singer I have ever heard who can scat convincingly. Every sound, colloquialism, or bit of trivia is processed by Waits as raw material tropes, platitudes, and song fragments are merely grist for the mill to be absorbed and rendered anew in the form of innovative, postmodern sound sculptures. ![]() ![]() As an artist, he is a fount of musical ideas, albeit one that appears to require constant kindling. Waits’s public face could similarly be said to be a series of projections part chameleon, part caricature, the corporeal version of Waits seems to embody nothing and everything. The yield, however, alchemically produces the great and unique Tom Waits.Īctor Peter Sellers claimed to not possess a personality of his own and considered himself a tabula rasa upon which he was able to convincingly construct or adopt personas. For all the discussion of Tom Waits as an American Original, his components are easy enough to parse his music can be compared to an exotic meal whose recipe doesn’t necessarily require a special trip to the grocery, with many of the ingredients - the aforementioned Wolf (via Captain Beefheart), the Beats, Bukowski, Kurt Weill, Cole Porter, Spike Jonze, Satch - easily found in the cupboards of most discerning 21st century listeners. Then again, you could just as easily mistake it for a long-lost Harry Partch piece, an especially ‘out’ Busta Rhymes interlude, or a bootleg recording of Randy Newman twelve-stepping in reverse. Heard through the wall of a neighboring apartment, you might confuse Tom Waits’s music with Howlin’ Wolf’s. ![]()
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