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Spontaneity is key for Louis
Interview - Louis Vause
IT took just a day for Louis Vause and his band to record most of the tracks on his new album Mechanicatastrophe and the constraint of time certainly adds an element of urgency to proceedings.
“And we didn’t do any rehearsals either,” pianist Louis tells me.
“I knew we had good readers and solo players and I am a big fan of the way Bob Dylan does things live, changing key in the middle of a piece and the band keeping up with him. And I didn’t want us to be in the position of us saying ‘let’s play the number the way we did in rehearsal’ and happily it has worked.”
So the album features 14 original tracks with Camden Town-based Vause accompanied by John Eacott on trumpet and flugel horn, Louise Elliott on tenor saxophone and flute, Gareth Huw Davies on double bass and Dave Bryant on percussion.
The music is bluesy, with a strong rhythm throughout and Vause provides a spicy boogie style in his playing.
“There are a list of musicians who influence me,” he says, “people like Dr John, Ruben Gonzalez, Fats Waller, even George Gershwin.
“I like to think it is a bit like a stew, put everything in a bit pot and get different flavours.”
Vause has been based in round Camden for 16 years and the inlay card of the album paints a picture of roaming round pubs, particularly Lord Stanley, in Camden Park Road, a “hang out of musicians filmmakers, chefs, actors – wonderful people all, who work between drinks or drink between work.”
Through such connections Vause has performed with the likes of former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon – indeed his last album was released on Coxon’s own label – and he performed on the soundtrack for the Jude Law film Alfie.
He says: “Music is a small world and Camden Town, in many respects, is the centre of it in this country.”
There is an opportunity to hear Vause performing from his latest album at a Christmas bash the Red Hedgehog in Archway on December 22 when he appears with a trio.
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