Waldo Knight lives in a village among the lush rolling hills and beaches of northern New South Wales, Australia. Born and raised in Sydney, he practised as a legal aid lawyer for some years. After a leave of absence in France, Nepal and India he retired from the law to pursue writing and music full time. He returned to the Sub-Continent, taking up residence in Nepal. He enrolled at Tribhuvan University to study Nepali. Introduced by friends to Ram Hari Gurung, an Indian classical music teacher, he undertook lessons, learning ragas on guitar. After three years abroad he returned to Australia and set about writing the songs which would become the Aftermath album. He has gigged in France, Kathmandu and Australia. Aftermath was recorded on a two input digital recorder in a studio he built in his backyard.

Aftermath was recorded over four years from 2001 to 2005. Lyrically it is the journey of a soul into the abyss and halfway up the mountain. Songs that live between the dark night of the soul and glimpses of salvation. Percussive and pulsing acoustic folk, atmospheric finger picking, sweetly savage electric guitar solos, Ganges delta blues and celtic rhythms.Aftermath is an album of its own genre.

Waldo Knight's CD, "Aftermath", feels like a spiritual musical journey by an artist who has run full circle in life - and seems to have landed in an instinctive and pure place. The 10-tune CD is a journey through several stages of his experience. "Sweet Vaporous Kiss" has a religious-chant-like quality to the post chorus phonetic harmonies - nice. Track 2, "Glimpses", gives the first taste of the timbre of Knight's textured voice and intimate vocal delivery. He is able to combine deft songwriting ability with an undeniable sincerity. We are reminded of Al Stewart in story telling and tone, and early Peter Gabriel in arrangements and approach. The tune is at once melodic and at once an exercise of prose. The melody of the chorus resolves the conflict and uncertainty of the first three minutes of the song - painting message and emotion perfectly. "God and the Devil" seems to call upon the ghost finger-picking slide of acoustic southern guitar blues. Waldo asks, 'do you really want be a king in the kingdom of pain?'. "Kathleen" is a gorgeous guitar/vocal bare beauty. We hear glimpses of Richard Harris and if you understand that comparison we're all much too old. Great record from Waldo Knight. - EARBUZZ

 

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