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Artist
We The Ghost
12+ albums
USA
about
"We The Ghost is a pop band on the rise. Only two years old, the project has already grown by leaps and bounds, garnering more and more acclaim along the way. One trait that characterizes the band, making them both unique and modern, is their interest in genre fusion. By incorporating sounds, styles and instrumentation from across the musical spectrum, We The Ghost craft memorable pop songs that stand apart from the crowd. Songwriter, vocalist, guitarist and synthesizer player Beau Tyler rejects the mindset of “real music” being strictly defined by one particular genre, and embraces the “very eclectic time for music” in which we live. “So much has been done,” he says, “that fusion seems to be the obvious approach. Maybe not reinventing the wheel, maybe not introducing a new sound, but taking what it is you love in music and creating your own thing, being original within that.” Tyler brings his grounding in early Motown and jazz to the table, but, in forming the band, he was also very conscious of the styles that he wanted to bridge under the We The Ghost banner: “With the band, I knew exactly what I wanted – I wanted hip hop drums, and I wanted rock guitar – but I didn’t want to be rap-rock! I wanted a classical element, so we got a violinist. When you blend everything, basically you become pop. I thought it was going to be hard, I thought, ‘how am I going to talk a legitimate rock guitarist into this?’ But I just focused on writing really good songs, and from the beginning
