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Beau James Wilding has been writing songs since age fifteen, bringing diverse influences to his music as he draws from punk, blues, jazz and Irish traditional music across his discography. The Californian’s intense emotional relationship with music deepened when, backpacking through Europe at age eighteen, a struggle with a disease left Beau legally blind.
With introspection and personal development becoming the key to his music, Beau digs deeper into himself as he experiments with both his lyricism and songwriting arrangements. This is evident in Beau’s latest release, the new EP ‘Here There Be Dragons’, a project showcasing the mastery he holds when it comes to writing songs that feel devotedly intertwined. Bringing together bewitching instrumentation from the standard folk arrangement of acoustic guitar rhythms and gentle drums, the occasional grit of an overdriven guitar and, most centrally, an Eastern European drone that ties the songs together. Beau’s unconventional and raw vocal style brings energy to both the melancholic and the dynamic, letting himself go into the music as he delivers his raspy tones.
Beau adds,“‘Here There Be Dragons’ is excitable and meant to encourage. ‘I Am an Illusion’ is a reflective and melancholic confessional with a slight twist of humor. ‘Cross-Eyed Heart’ is a vulnerable exploration into confronting a dead relative about old wounds and brings to ear tones of fear, darkness and death. ‘Bird of Paradise”’presents an instrumental, ambient landscape intended to express the principle of yugen in Japanese, or my limited understanding of this concept of beauty fleetingly emerging. I composed the tune while staring out my window during a rainstorm, watching the wind blow a bird of Paradise violently about. There is a sense of sadness and heaviness, contrasted with a lightness when you can hear the sun breaking through briefly about mid-way through. I hope to continue to touch on all of these themes in my work. Energy, honest humor, vulnerability, explorations of death and darkness contrasted with beauty are all themes I find exciting.”
