In this indieblog I'd written a lot about musicians who record their songs in their own bedroom or living room. Usually all by themselves and this means that most of them are also multi-instrumentalists. 'Multi' means 'more' and two is also more. A bedroom-musician doesn't have to know dozens of instruments to record a song. And electronics also gives a hand. Evan Voytas also works like this and he produces very nice songs this way.
If you read his biografy, you might think that Evan Voytas is a very restless young man. When he's eighteen he leaves rural Pennsylvania for Harlem, NYC. He already loved music (particularly jazz) but in New York he starts to studie music at the City College of New York. But then he leaves again and ends up in an Indian village in New Mexico. After a few months Evan Voytas returns to NYC and he becomes the guitarist in the band of Teddy Geiger and with them he tours the world for a while. After this adventure he returns to solitude and moves into the farm house in Pennsylvania and that's where he starts recording the songs which have now appeared on his debut EP "Introducing Evan Voytas" which will be released this month.
The music of Evan Voytas is like pop with some jazz, or like is written in the biografy: 'like Burt Bacharach and Bjork collaborating in a bedroom studio'. But I also detect a little bit of Fatboy Slim.
>mp3: The Yellow World of 83
>mp3: We'd Be Good Together