Jack Colwell
Indie / Folk / Electronica
Sydney, Australia
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About
The teenage years are typically rebellious: sex, drugs and rock and roll are de rigeur. Jack Colwell took things a step further, rebelling against the expectations of his generation by falling in love with medieval music. Already likened to everyone from Tori Amos and Bjork to Nick Cave and Patrick Wolf, the precocious Colwell is finally releasing his songs from his living room.
Raised in Sydney's northern beaches (a fact that is he is not at all pleased with) on a soundtrack of Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones, Colwell began learning piano at age five. He added the bass guitar and the double bass to his repertoire before the age of ten, and has since picked up the ukulele, organ and often found to be trading in the piano for the harpsichord. A place at Sydney's prestigious Conservatorium of Music High school gave Colwell six years of composition lessons and choir practice (along with a penchant for ditching non-musical classes). Eventually joining the SBS Youth Orchestra and touring Macau, 18-year-old Colwell (like so many before him) has sidestepped his promising classical career to invade the world of pop music with his stupefying talent.
The end result is Colwell's debut EP White Noise: often strange, sometimes frightening but always stunning, the EP is a dramatic suite of songs that combine Colwell's classical abilities with his love of pop music. Bursts of static and gypsy beats ensure White Noise sounds unlike anything else produced in Australia. The creepy and campy cabaret of Rat-A-Tat-Tat, the epic defiance of 3 Ravens, the perverted electronic brilliance of the title track: the EP is as diverse as Colwell's musical interests.
- Liam Casey
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Zac, Jul 25, 2008:
hey i like the piano partz in ur songs is there a way to get instrumental versions? :)
Dame Culotte et Monsieur Slip, Aug 17, 2007:
[FR] : Salut a toi ami !! Juste une petite info pour t'annoncer que nous sommes en concert le 9 septembre a St escobille dans le sud de paris sur l'A10 ... pour fetter ca le site officiel se refait une peau neuve ... http://www.dameculotte-monsieurslip.com n'hesite pas a passer le voir y a plein de trucs rigolos et n'hsite pas non plus a laisser ta trace dans les ptis papiers de dame culotte
[EN] : Hello to you freind !! Just a little news to inform you we are on stage the 9 september in St escobille (south of paris)... in this way the official web site of the band gets totaly new !! http://www.dameculotte-monsieurslip.com feel free to come to see all the funny things and let your fingerprint in Dame Culotte's papers ... sorry for our dear freinds who speak only english but at this time web site is all in french english translation will come soon ... hurry up if you want to be the first to put few english words on it !!!
Gagosian Liga, Aug 5, 2007:
I thank you for adding me and hope you enjoy my music! Feel free to download it! Greetings from Munich/Germany!
Ziplok, Aug 3, 2007:
Hey hows it going?
Knitting Turtle, Aug 1, 2007:
Sounds good what you're doing!
Brendan Maclean, Jul 31, 2007:
Indeed you did Jack, was a great show.
The speakers are exploded here but I'll listen to your stuff this arvo. Sounds like my kind of music.
Tarsh, Jul 31, 2007:
thanks for the add, enjoy your tunes mr.
coline : welcome to the real nerd world..., Jul 31, 2007:
thank you Jack,
Coline.