John Goldrust has long wanted to take live music around the world as a travelling circus, which he sees as different from touring: touring feels transient to him, while the circus he has in mind is more grounded. The Oxford-based singer, songwriter and guitarist has his first official album, Like A Phoenix, out now.
Goldrust says it is hard to know what follows the album, which took a great deal of focus and effort. Live music will be part of it. He would like that next stage to involve a team of like-minded souls rather than an almost entirely solo project, and he talks of wanting to take the rest of the world with him on the journey.
The album draws on folk, alt-rock and indie rock, and he names Villagers and The Cure as the acts nearest his own sound. Its opening track, The One For Me, includes the line “I planted our flag in the centre of time in between yesterday and tomorrow”, one of the more striking images on a record that is easy to warm to.
Whatever shape the travelling circus takes, Like A Phoenix was written and produced by Goldrust and made largely on his own.
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