The Travelling Man: A Musical Journey Through Time with Andrew Siddle

Sometimes it is not easy to start writing an article and this is one of those, Andrew Siddle is not a debutant because he made history with ‘Torn’ and ‘Ednaswap’, something absolutely unique.

The story behind this piece is peculiar, Andrew tells us how the words of the song were inspired by the Los Angeles Hospice where his first wife (Tina Kerti) was recovering from the nervous breakdown she received after filming a movie in the mid 1980s
Edna, the first singer of Ednaswap was a nurse at the hospital and already sang with Ednaswap.

Andrew toured playing his Les Paul electric guitar in the summer of 1984.
mainly improvised using blues scales and also some or some ordinary scales to work out new melodies. He also know steel string acoustic guitar finger picking styles.
But now we are not here to talk about this but about his project ‘The Travelling Man’ which consists of making songs that start from poems and then creating songs.
The entire journey includes a mix of various genres including R&B, experimental rock, contemporary rock and even hip-hop.

The point is that you will find yourself in front of a journey and even if 50 songs may seem like a lot you will not even realize that, one step after another, you are walking!
It is like when you take a short walk in the woods and after 2 hours you find yourself immersed in a beautiful forest full of colors and shades, with animals running and you do not know and do not even want to go back.
This similarity reminded me of walks with my father in the woods near his house, where we talked about music and he tried to make me listen to the best rock from the 80s, 90s and 2000s, trying to get me out of my ultra-commercial soul of those times.

I like that the songs are sometimes abruptly interrupted and we move on to another, what it seems to me is listening to an audio cassette where there are so many genres, so many stories and so many nuances precisely.

The discovery of this podcast is something that will make you spend a day among your memories and making you discover details that you did not remember.

This is possible due to the fact that Andrew from the 80s was already in the world of music both with Ednaswap and logically with himself immersed in the musical world of Los Angeles for example, something that can only be understood by those who have been part of it and that brings us here in this podcast.

Do yourself a favor, I know you can’t make an audio cassette or CD which would be the best thing since you would have to listen to this completely isolated but download the podcast on your phone and then put it on airplane mode and go out and do something, a trip, walk, drive and you will see that later you will thank me!

Find the podcast below!

Article made by Alessandro Cicioni