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Artist
Toby Wainwright Johns
12+ albums
folkexperimentalweirdpoeticAlternative Folk
about
Toby Wainwright Johns is a musician and poet, currently based in and around the Welsh borders. His style is captivating; A strange blend of primal, earthy, and human with sometimes more than a hint of haunting. Maybe something which lies within us all... Toby's recent mini album "PRESSED FLOWERS", a six track journey, which along the way encounters elements of early British folk, tango, and gypsy music throughout Europe, to name but a few. This combined with what can only be described as poetry. Toby's use of language uses words for more than just their meaning. Often the use of sound plays an important role. Two words. One sound. Two meanings. Both of which are relevant to the meaning of the lyric as a whole. This clever poetic twist is a trademark of Toby's songs.Toby Wainwright Johns' style is undoubtably rural, his inspiration from that which is beyond the control of man. Yet, containing a strong grounding in that which is essentially human. Toby Wainwright Johns started gigging at the age of 14 with his band Redshift. For whom he was the sole songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist. Alongside his sister Saffron (now an artist living in Bulgaria) on bass, and Jon Stacey/Matt Jockel on drums. Redshift disappeared in 1999. Toby took up the steel string acoustic and began a painstaking 5 years composing what was to be his first solo release. "THE CREATURES WITH BEAUTIFUL EYES". Recorded in a cellar by friend and sound engineer Norris (now working at ToyBox studios, Bristol).
