"wide awake / in someone's dream / get back / to insanity / follow / the patterns in between / watch your steps / it's hard to see..."
What makes me trust fall into a song? Textures of sound, avant sensibilities in the mix, rhythms that not only move well but embrace the emotional thrust of the song they hold up, surprising orchestrations and moving vocals that somehow carry melancholia with hope (even if the hope is constructed out of fragile things). I get this and more in "Have A Nice Dream", the title track of Thailand's Wicked Lights' upcoming EP.
The track highlights Two Charuson’s expansive songwriting and as liner notes reveal is about [how dreams (during the pandemic) got put on hold for some. Be it the possibility of going somewhere far from home or the possibility of performing in front of others. For some is the gift of life that gets taken away in sharing things with another person or to be touched or touching a loved one]
Indeed, "Have A Nice Dream" flows so well, pushed by acoustic guitar notes that are so up front in the mix that they serve as the heaviness, offset by percussive adornments, far away strings, dozens of sonic nuances all glued together by Charuson's vocal countenance. The result is something so cinematic that it begs to have a movie made for it.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2JMweZxR2xGs9rcfzktB5k
https://www.instagram.com/wicked_lights/
Two Charuson has worked for three decades to hone his craft, learning a variety of instruments along the way in order to create his songs. Born in Thailand he was schooled privately in the British countryside. This exposure to an alien culture represented an early culture shock, but it also opened up a new world musically. Forced to attend church, he learned to sing traditional hymns and to adapt to British cultural influences. He found solace in picking up a guitar and idolizing Eric Clapton, Prince, Jeff Tweedy, Neil Young, Elliott Smith, Radiohead and Joy Division. Later, Two branched out to even more genres, attending a wide variety of musical performances in London and from many genres. Soon after graduating in Business Economics, he began to travel to different parts of the world and in doing so applied a philosophy of open mindedness which he had discovered in music. The music of Wicked Lights has evolved from these experiences and touches on themes of disillusionment, joy, love, sadness, courage and playfulness. Today Two lives and works in his native Bangkok, using his music to express the conflicts of identity that his background inevitably creates, but also exploring those same conflicts in the cosmopolitan, increasingly uprooted Thai capital itself. Playing most of the instruments himself, he has been able to create a unique and wholly personal response to these conflicts, creating in the process a musical style unlike anything else in the Asian landscape.
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