{"id":6023,"date":"2023-10-20T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2023-10-20T16:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:38:01","slug":"blog-interview-julian-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/20\/blog-interview-julian-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog interview: Julian Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/artist\/35k2toFgs8gru6GMPChzo6?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><b>Hello<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> Julian<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> how are you?<\/b><br \/><br \/>Doing very well<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> thank you. I was travelling a lot this year<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> but it\u2019s nice to be home now.<br \/><br \/><b>Congratulations on the release of \u201cAnthology Vol. 1.\u201d How does it feel?<\/b><br \/><br \/>Thank you. It feels a little strange. Never thought I\u2019d get this far so soon<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> at least that\u2019s how it feels. I know two decades isn\u2019t so soon<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> but<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> boy<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> does time fly.<br \/><br \/><b>It\u2019s a retrospective body of work. What have you learned putting it together?<\/b><br \/><br \/>I\u2019ve actually gone back and learned how to play some old songs that I hadn\u2019t played for a while. It felt refreshing<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> and it kind of takes you back in time. It\u2019s almost like being in a time machine. I\u2019m grateful that so much of what I have created has been recorded<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> so I can go back and take stock of who I was and when.<br \/><br \/><b>What\u2019s been a standout memory of recording it?<\/b><br \/><br \/>To be honest<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> I would say it\u2019s when I dusted off the three new tracks<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> which actually happen to be t<span class=\"gmail_default\">racks I wrote a long time ago<\/span><span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> and <span class=\"gmail_default\">I\u00a0<\/span>got to finally\u00a0and official<span class=\"gmail_default\">ly<\/span>\u00a0record them<br \/><br \/><b>What was your favourite track?<\/b><br \/><br \/><span class=\"gmail_default\">&#8220;<\/span>Carry Me Home.<span class=\"gmail_default\">&#8220;<\/span>\u00a0It\u2019s a song I wrote for my grandfather when he passed and transcended to the stars.<br \/><br \/><b>You added three new tracks to the project. Has your method of writing changed between the old songs and the new ones?<\/b><br \/><br \/>It hasn\u2019t really changed all too much. I would say that the biggest difference is lived experience. Back then<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> I had<span class=\"gmail_default\">n&#8217;t<\/span> really lived as much as I have now. When I\u2019m writing now<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> things I speak about are just more personal as a result of that.<br \/><br \/><b>You\u2019re an artist from Canada. How did it all begin for you?<\/b><br \/><br \/>It began heading to open stages and getting up to perform. I would frequent the Yonge a<span class=\"gmail_default\">nd<\/span> Eglinton area <span class=\"gmail_default\">in Toronto\u00a0<\/span>and head to places like Broadway Bob\u2019s, Kokomos, The Rose &amp; Crown, Cheers<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> and Scruffy Murphy\u2019s. Every one of those places was in walking distance and had an open jam on Sundays.<br \/><br \/><b>What did you listen to growing up?<\/b><br \/><br \/>I\u2019m still growing up and listening to as much music as I possibly can. I love it all<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> and every artist who\u2019s brave enough to create and release stuff into the world inspires me.<br \/><br \/><b>You\u2019re touring. Tell us a funny story from the road.<\/b><br \/><br \/>There\u2019s so many<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> and I honestly don\u2019t have the greatest r<span class=\"gmail_default\">ecollection,\u00a0<\/span>but just this January I did e<span class=\"gmail_default\">nd\u00a0<\/span>up touring Europe on the train system with one of my friends. It was impossibly difficult to do<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> but we did it. We took 17 trains to get to s<span class=\"gmail_default\">ix<\/span> shows in four different countries. It was a lot of running up and down platforms and streets to get to these shows.<span class=\"gmail_default\"> W<\/span>hen we got to the hotel in Berlin<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> we where just beat up and needed rest<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> but there was no lift at the hotel<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> and we climbed eight floors of stairs to get to our rooms only to have to turn around and head to soundcheck. Sometimes you just have to laugh to keep from crying<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> you know?<br \/><br \/><b>You\u2019ve also got your own radio show. How did that come to be?<\/b><br \/><br \/>By accident<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> really. I was head hunted and became the afternoon drive host of a radio station called ELMNT FM in Toronto. I did that for awhile and then started up my own show called <span class=\"gmail_default\">&#8220;<\/span>Julian Taylor\u2019s Jukebox<span class=\"gmail_default\">,&#8221;<\/span> where I play music that I love to listen to. I also make sure to play a ton of music by artists like myself who are B<span class=\"gmail_default\">IPOC\u00a0<\/span>and indie. There\u2019s not enough colour on the radio here in Canada<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> and I have been trying to change that for years. \u00a0<br \/><br \/><b>Post covid, what have you learned about yourself in the last three years?<\/b><br \/><br \/>That I love people but that I also love my own time and space as well.<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><b>Did you pick up any new skills?<\/b><br \/><br \/>I chopped a lot of wood. Is that considered a new skill?<br \/><br \/><b>What are you listening to at the moment?<\/b><br \/><br \/>I am actually talking piano lessons again. My daughter started<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> and I decided that we should take lessons together so that I could help support her and vice versa. It\u2019s been awhile since I actually read music. Most of the time<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> because I play guitar<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> it\u2019s been notation. I am also slowly learning some Mohawk. It was my grandfather\u2019s wish for my sister and me.<br \/><br \/><b>What\u2019s next for you? <\/b><br \/><br \/>I\u2019ve been working on another record of brand<span class=\"gmail_default\">&#8211;<\/span>new<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> original material. I was in Nashville not too long ago and Six Nations as well<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> tracking new songs<span class=\"gmail_default\">,<\/span> which I hope will get released in the <span class=\"gmail_default\">s<\/span>pring of 2024<span class=\"gmail_default\">.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/JulianTaylor-3_PhotoCredit-TravisSilverman-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/JulianTaylor-3_PhotoCredit-TravisSilverman-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/JulianTaylor-3_PhotoCredit-TravisSilverman-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/JulianTaylor-3_PhotoCredit-TravisSilverman-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/JulianTaylor-3_PhotoCredit-TravisSilverman-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/JulianTaylor-3_PhotoCredit-TravisSilverman-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/JulianTaylor-3_PhotoCredit-TravisSilverman-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/JulianTaylor-3_PhotoCredit-TravisSilverman-90x60.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Julian, how are you? Doing very well, thank you. I was travelling a lot this year, but it\u2019s nice to be home now. Congratulations on the release of \u201cAnthology Vol. 1.\u201d How does it feel? Thank you. It feels a little strange. Never thought I\u2019d get this far so soon, at least that\u2019s how &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,141,218,247,132,30,142,73,150,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustic","category-canada","category-folk","category-interview","category-lyricist","category-music","category-producer","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6025,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions\/6025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}