Welcome to Brant Swigart Music
Thank you for finding your way to my website.
On this page you'll find two things: A link to my new album "Take One", available on Bandcamp, and a list of songs taken from a recent gig at Formaggio, in Kailua Hawaii.
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I've been writing songs since I was 13 years old and I learned to play instruments like the guitar as much as I needed to flesh out the songs I wrote. I played in original bands, starting out in Anchorage Alaska with my good friend Kris Morris who lived up the road from me. That first band was called Urban Tribe and we played Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones and a few of our own songs. I'll write more soon...
Ok. So I just listened to it all the way through with headphones and read all the words. I feel like I just read a novel by the child of Robert Frost and Vladimir Nobokov. Beautiful word play, and always, always a light just a little further around the bend. I’m really happy you made some notation about the inspiration for the songs. The notes lay out a kind of biographical touchstone that everyone can find familiar- and then you put into music that fundamental human feeling that most of us can never find a way to express, or even put our finger on- (so we just let it pass by and it shows up to haunt our dreams because we could never sort it out). I also like the production. It’s very even- all of a piece. I miss albums like that- where the whole is greater than its parts. Thanks for putting this album out. It makes sense.
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-Torilife Goto-