Biography
Album available: http://julianbach.bandcamp.com/
Julian Bach is a 28 year old singer songwriter from Somerset West, South Africa.
He lived most of his early years in Strand, a coastal town not too far from Cape Town. It was there and then—affected and afflicted by a number of unrelated and almost random influences like The Beatles, Nirvana and NOFX — that he first succumbed to the rush of writing his own song.
There used to be an old beach café right by the ocean. Inside, kids of all creeds would gather and enthusiastically appreciate their favourite local noisemakers. It was here that Julian cut his teeth, so to speak, in the first of many bands: Sourdough.
A lot has changed for him since those days in the quaint suburbs, but the core of it remains the same: to make music for the sake of making music. His debut solo album, Man On The Bicycle, harks back to the simplicity of youth and is punctuated by moments of nostalgia and wistfulness that only growing up can incite.
From its opening track, Ride—with its rolling choruses and sing-along melodies—to the outlandishly eerie waltz, Ode To No One—right up until the closing track, the honest and anthemic Pirates On A Dead Sea—Julian’s new music captures a quality of songwriting entirely unique to him, but somehow still manages to sound familiar.
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