Acid Folk/Rock - Dylan Ware

Born in New Zealand forests & caves, trapping possoms, eeling, riding swollen rivers, spearfishing the Pacific, under stars & birds & sky on the other side, and occasionally roaming into the dreary provincial towns to seek humans & make general suburban mischief. Later we took to playing some fairly dangerous games, thinking a lot, roaming a lot and writing poetry... Read philosophy & law at university and became intensely interested in songwriting – Roger Waters, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Lennon/McCartney, Leonard Cohen, Trent Reznor... also in the Theory of Love, states of consciousness, mycology, girls, freedom, the sublime unity of things... There followed a sustained continuation of increasingly fierce revelry and contemplative analytical thought, during which time various shitty jobs may have been held - gravedigger, journalist, hobo, intelligence operative, pirate, hunter, that kind of thing... Left NZ with a girl for a while and headed out on the road to Australia, then Europe, then onward into the East and 12 other reasons where I've been traveling, living, singing and playing at this and that ever since... My music has been a shadowy path though frighteningly lonesome yet exhilirating lands & bedroom oblivions to the international campfire circuit, playing on various beaches and in forest clearings throughout numerous continents. Quite a few shooting-stars have been sighted to my tunes. by me. I’m said to be extremely difficult to get along with and usually drunk, dying or climbing something, but somehow able to come up with quiet thoughtful acoustic little compositions. The songs deal - as does everything in one way or another - with love; and their themes include the changing seasons, birds, delicate meditations on the passing of time and measured explorations of human desire. At least that’s how it feels to me. the 11 songs on 'Dark Wind Songs' (2004, Water-Wheel Rhymes) were recorded in Istanbul Dec ‘03, except 'Dark Wind Song', 'Two Square Meals' and 'The Touch of Time', recorded in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria in Jul ‘02. The album quickly went wood upon its release and spent 16 weeks on a bookshelf beside the door. It remains a soughtafter cult collector's item. It's quite a small cult. Have just completed recording a new album “Wolfsongbird” in Istanbul.