Introduction

We had the pleasure of interviewing Julian Taylor over Zoom video. Award-winning, Toronto-based singer-songwriter Julian Taylor is set to release his next album, the powerful and engaging Beyond the Reservoir, on October 14, 2022, via his Howling Turtle, Inc. label, with distribution via Warner Music/ADA. For more information please visit any of the links below or Taylor's website. Beyond the Reservoir's name is grounded in a specific geographical touchstone Taylor recalls from the days of his teenage youth in Toronto. "I used to hang out at a place called the St. Clair Reservoir," he says. "If my last album, The Ridge, was a childhood record in a lot of ways, Beyond the Reservoir is an adolescence record – a coming-of-age story – about moving into adulthood. It addresses identity, loss, sadness, hope, and redemption, and the themes of resilience, courage, and strength. It has this infinite sadness to it, but it also has this infinite hope to it as well." In May, Taylor shared a performance video for one of the album's songs, "Murder 13" – that features a starkly restless narrative – in which he played it solo, onstage at the renowned El Mocambo club in Toronto. It was released to coincide with the 2022 Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas City. He then released the first official single from Beyond the Reservoir, "S.E.E.D.S," a song with the thought-provoking key line – inspired by the murder of George Floyd and the widespread news of residential school abuses in Canada – "They tried to bury us, but they didn't know we were seeds." The song premiered at PopMatters, and a planned music video will be released soon. The no-holds-barred reclamation declarations of "Stolen Lands" continues the theme,along with the freedom and wisdom celebrated in "I Am a Tree." Moving forward, "Wide Awake," a bittersweet beauty of a song, about embracing one's ingrained familial experiences, with the catchiest chorus that Taylor has yet written, will be released on Aug. 12, premiering at Glide magazine. "Opening the Sky," written as a treatise for his pre-teen daughter to champion the idea of how you can do anything, no matter what the universe throws at you, will follow as single three, with a scheduled release date of Sept. 16. "Murder 13," a touching account of the tragic loss of a dear friend of his youth, will then officially be released as a single in tandem with the album release on Oct. 14. We want to hear from you! Please email Tera@BringinitBackwards.com. www.BringinitBackwards.com #podcast #interview #bringinbackpod #JulianTaylor #BeyondTheReservoir #SEEDS #NewMusic #zoom Listen & Subscribe to BiB https://www.bringinitbackwards.com/follow/ Follow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter! https://www.facebook.com/groups/bringinbackpod Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/bringin-it-backwards--4972373/support. https://bringinitbackwards.com/