Heritage, and the idea of how it shapes identity, is something that Rudd has always been passionate about. Because the intimacy and the energy is…different.” “As I have gone on this journey and venues get bigger and bigger but I often choose to do multiple nights in a room that’s like between 1,000 to 3,000. That voice appears in my music and…throughout my life. I’ve always had this idea that I have this old woman with me on this journey or some kind of spirit that is guiding me. “Sometimes my music is ahead of me and I feel like, there something in it that I understand later.
I guess it’s the most personal song for me and it was with me for a long time…probably about six years before,” comments Rudd.
“At the end of a long sort of journey, I ended up getting married to a beautiful woman, and that song ended up being the song that I wrote for her. For the song True Love, something he dedicates to his wife and played at their wedding, it was a story without an end until he met his wife. Most of the time, Rudd waits for the inspiration to flow through him, believing that it is guided by something ‘spiritual’ and that often, he waits for life to catch up to the song. It just comes, and when it comes I entertain it and it sits with me for a couple of years or whatever, and when I get to a point that it’s time to dump some of that down, I do. “I’ve never sat down and tried to write a song. While six years between releases may be unthinkable to other artists, Rudd is not one to push the process, allowing the music to flow from wherever it comes from. Storm Boy is Rudd’s ninth studio album and, quite possibly, his most personal album to date. It’s something that I have always done – music is like breathing.” My music is something that has always been there for me since i was a little boy. “It’s just a reflection of my journey man, and I guess my music is my journal as I go around doing the things that I do. The new album is a collection of the stories and experiences he’s amassed in those six years – a ‘journal’ as he calls it, of his thoughts and feelings while on the road.
“I guess…it kind of feels like a follow up to Spirit Bird, which was my last record before I did the United Nations project so I feel that, you know, it’s a more personal album and I have been writing this album since then,” says Rudd. And while it’s been six years since his last album, the time has been far from a hiatus with the chilled out Victorian travelling the world preaching – for lack of a better word – his messages of peace, acceptance and belief in the human spirit.Īnd despite the time that has elapsed since his last record, Rudd still feels that the new record, Storm Boy (out now), is still very much linked to his previous work.
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