Music Project...
STYLUS AND NATHAN SWENSON
'Last Night Before The Colour'
CD Album. Stylus Recording Company SRC003
'Last Night Before The Colour' is a collaboration between STYLUS (Welsh left-field musician Dafydd Morgan) and Gloucester artist NATHAN SWENSON.
NEW ALBUM 'Last Night Before The Colour' NOW AVAILABLE!
The new CD album from STYLUS is now available and is once again a limited mail-order only release. The album, titled 'Last Night Before The Colour', is the tenth album from STYLUS (who is Welsh experimental artist Dafydd Morgan) and is a collaboration with West County artist Nathan Swenson who provides the albums artwork and the inspiration for the music.
I was introduced to the work of Nathan Swenson by my label manager. He suggested and came up with the idea that I write some music whilst studying this one piece of art. I agreed.
What do I see in the painting. It evokes feelings to me of desolation and isolation. It has been an intriguing and challenging project.
I have never met Nathan Swenson. There is no need to. I think all I have to say to him is here, in the music. – DAFYDD MORGAN
Music and Art for me has always had a close relationship. The music and sounds have influenced the artists’ painting or sculpture. I have created works of Art listening to music. I began to think why a role reversal couldn’t occur; where the Art stimulates the music. The collaboration on Art and music on this album details this relationship of influence and control. Evidentially as Art does, the music twists and turns from its basis and roots but that birth and creation resembles the on going altitude of strength and wealth. On this project I produced the Artwork, some narration and found discovered some of the titles of the tracks. – NATHAN SWENSON
Nathan Swenson is now based in Gloucester. He has exhibited locally for a number of years but it wasn’t until his first critically acclaimed month long ‘solo’ exhibition at Gloucester Guildhall in 2008 that brought Nathan to attention and to the forefront as one of the South West’s most exciting new art discoveries. Influenced by artists as diverse as Robert Rauschenberg and Diego Velázquez his techniques and selection of medium can be very random, allocated to current state of mind behaviour.
www.myspace.com/stylusdafyddmorgan
E-mail: src@talbot.force9.co.uk
All images © 2007 Nathan Swenson
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