Mr Saxton from UK: Find Us
In 50 words or less, tell us what you sound like?
Early 70's Pop. heavily influenced by the song writing style of Brian Wilson, Harry Nilsson & Paul McCartney. "it sounds old, but new" said my friend Bob. The music isn't intentionally nostalgic it just takes a piece of the era. I write about what interests me, I wrote a song recently about having bath and recorded the bath filling up and swilling the water. Another one about the bees dying, and an instrumental about Henri Rousseau, trying to make music influenced by his paintings, using flutes, backwards strings, jingle bells, rain-makers, and my cat meowing. I try not to put any limits on what I should be doing so that I don't repeat myself and get the most out of music.
In 100 words or less, tell us why we should listen to you?
I record everything myself at home, I write all my own material, I have recorded over 30 albums since the age of 11, 10 years ago. I make music with the ideology that I don't want anyone to get bored, so I try my best to make the listener feel engulfed by the sounds and feel like they've stepped into another place for 40 minutes. I spend months working on songs and only let the best through, I hope that people appreciate it as much as the work that went into completing it.
If you had to pick one of your tracks for our readers to listen to, which would it be?
We Can Still Try
Give us 3 bands you’d recommend we listen to?
Tom Low - Phone EP
Harry Nilsson - Aerial Ballet
Joe Meek and the Blue Boys - I Hear A New World
What inspires your music?
Things around me, things that have happened in my life, but I love stories and concepts, loose concepts that I can build a world around, my latest album 'Mr Saxton's Sounds From The Submarine' is an aquatic based album, so i used lots of different sounds of water and watery sounding things throughout the album. One Song 'Ocean Therapy' I used whale song as it is such a haunting sound, and out of that comes synths and guitar until the song begins. Anything can trigger an idea for a song, I don't limit myself to break up songs.
What we say:
By taking 60s melodies and harmonies and imbuing them with a faintly subversive sense of fun and self-depreciation enables Saxton to stands out from the crowded field of overly earnest singer songwriters.
