Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: HT197820221
- Format: CD
- UPC: 002721807807
- Street Date: 01/20/23
- PreBook Date: 12/16/22
- Label: Aporia Records »
- Genre: Folk
- Run Time: 49:34 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2022
- Box Lot: 40
- Territory: WORLD EX CA
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Julian Taylor - Beyond The Reservoir
Julian Taylor's warm, strong vocals and poetic lyrics will entrance listeners with roots-oriented songs about life, death and hopes for the future.
- List Price: $15.99
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Toronto-based singer-songwriter Julian Taylor has been part of the musical fabric and landscape in Canada for two decades. Taylor enjoyed a breakthrough year in 2020, when his second solo acoustic album, The Ridge, earned more than five million plays on Spotify, praise from press worldwide, and airplay from America to Australia to the U.K. In addition to winning Taylor Solo Artist of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, The Ridge was also nominated for: two Juno Awards, the Polaris Prize Long List, a Summer Solstice Indigenous Award, a Canadian Music Week INDIES Award, and an additional Canadian Folk Music Awards nomination in the English Songwriter of the Year category.
How do you follow-up a career high point? For Taylor, you double down on upping your game by striving to exceed the creative fruits that have already blossomed from the artistic spark that got you there in the first place. Taylor's new album, Beyond the Reservoir is further evidence of a songwriter pushing the very boundaries of his creativity. Taylor has succeeded in surpassing both his and our expectations with the nine profoundly interpersonal songs found on his stunning new solo effort.
The inherent compassion and humanity entrenched all throughout Beyond the Reservoir show Taylor is well in tune with the soul of his restless muse in a way that's personally relatable to everyone who's listening. It's an album that captures the moments that changed just about everything. Beyond the Reservoir is the justly attained artistic apex of one Mr. Julian Taylor, a duly established career artist still looking over the rim to see where he can take us, and himself, next.
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Sales Points
- The Ridge (2020) spawned hit single 'Ballad of a Young Troubadour' that currently has 5,721,457 plays on Spotify alone.
- Previous album, The Ridge, won 'Solo Artist of the Year' at the Canadian Folk Music Awards.
- Previous album The Ridge was nominated for two Juno awards: 'Contemporary Roots Album of the Year' and 'Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year'
- For fans of Richie Havens, Elisabeth Cotten and Fred Eaglesmith.
- Julian was curator of first ever edition of Afro-Indigenous music playlist at Spotify.
Press Quotes
This is Taylor's best work to date and a strong contender for one of the records of the year!
—maverick-country.com
Beyond The Reservoir is a folk and roots rock treasure trove of nine tracks...full of stunning musical highlights. From the stark and gripping tale of 'Murder 13' to the soulful musings of 'Opening The Sky', Taylor's delivery is remarkable.
—Gerrod Harris, spillmagazine.com
The acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter's new country/folk album tells a devastating but ultimately empowering coming-of-age story.
—Carol Roth, adventuresinamericana.com
An album steeped in deeply personal growing pains that touch on universal feelings, veined with sadness and joy, anguish and hope, touching on the confessional spirit and resonant emotions of a Springsteen or Browne, it confirms Taylor as one of the fines
—Mike Davies, folkradio.co.uk
If his past record and its formula for success is any indication, Beyond The Reservoir is set to shatter expectations and further let listeners into the life of Taylor, one of the wisest and brightest songwriters currently north of the border who deserves
—Matt Wickstrom, wideopencountry.com