Richard Swift - The Novelist, Walking Without Effort Album

Richard Swift
4 Track Album Preview

Acclaimed in US underground circles as a lone Gershwin, the enigmatic Richard Swift's lofi, sepiatone style harkens back to the tin pan alley age. The Orange County native spent much of his youth experimenting with a fourtrack recorder, before honing his skills as keyboardist in shoegazer rock troupe, Starfly 59 and in his own ambient-electronic outfit, Instruments of Science and Technology. His influences span Bob Dylan to early seventies dub acts including the Congos and Lee Perry.

Click here to listen to tracks taken from Richard Swift's double album, 'Walking Without Effort' and 'The Novelist' out 11th September 2006

Walking Without Effort - the second part of this double album is the first, and perhaps most deceptively complex, yet decisively understated, Swift release to date. A slight step eastward from the eclectic musings of "The Novelist", "Walking Without Effort" intentionally paints another image, and baptizes believers born-again into Swift's unique brand of sonic schizophrenia. Gramophones are replaced by 8-tracks and Persian rugs are covered with shag, as Swift nods to the early 70's solo efforts of McCartney and Harrison, while waving to Burt Bacharach and Van Dyke Parks. They're just passers-by as he drives down main street in a Rolls Royce Silver Shadow.