EVOLETAH
Genre:Alternative Indi, Pop/rock
From out of the clouds comes …
New life for old drones
Back in the 90s Matt Cahill fronted a band called The Violets. They sold records, won awards and garnered critical acclaim … but then they disappeared. Evaporated, you might say.
But life moved on; and Cahill closed up the songbook, stashed the guitars in the cupboard, got married and became a dad. And then … “I really thought I’d walked away from it all and I was cool with that,” Cahill recalls, “but then having my little boy really made me reconnect. He helped me get back what I always loved about music. Only this time I had a new voice.”
Newly inspired, Cahill dusted off the six string and before long was on the phone to old band mates in Adelaide. From new life, from clouds, Evoletah evolved.
With ex-Monte guitarist Andrew Boyce and former Violets drummer Jason Eyers-White on board a debut record emerged. Marketed solely online, the Fool’s Errand EP established Evoletah an instant niche. Their passionate, reflective, supple music (think Elbow, David Sylvian, etc) won them fans worldwide and the EP sold out its run.
And now we have Evaporating, the band’s keenly anticipated seven track follow up. Suffused with shimmering guitar and fleshed out with occasional strings, it luxuriates in the beautiful and the bittersweet. It is at once smart and tender, inspired by love and memory. It is life seen from the sky.
“We’re all amazed at how magical this whole process has been,” Cahill explains. “In many ways it should never have happened. It’s like that dirty brown river of your life evaporating and falling back to earth as diamonds. It’s like a whole new life. ”
Evoletah: Evaporating
1: Draw Your Gun: Draw your gun, before you realise, you might have got it all wrong.
2. Ether: This won’t hurt a bit.
3. Evaporating: “It’s about the feeling that I had for years and years that I was responsible for the entire world.”
4. Easy Game: Pay the debt, cry the tear, your father’s son, til your dying day.
5. The Forgetting: “This is about loss in general, non specific, I guess you can relate it to my Father, but really it’s just generic loss and the realisation of what you once had.”
6. Ballad of Broken Wishes: “I wrote for my son Jude, the essence of the song is that, even though I will always totally be there for him, I’m not going to gloss it all up; life can be vey difficult.”
7. Idiot: “This one’s about how I look back at my youth and I don’t even recognise the person I used to be. I just wandered around believing that I knew best; then I would generally count the cost.”
Evoletah are:
Matt Cahill: Vocals, Rhythm Guitar, Piano
Andrew Boyce: Lead Guitar, Bass Guitar, Treatments
Jason Eyers-White: Drums
James Bosworth: Bass
