Rob Milne
It’s the subtlety of his music that really gets to you.
This is Time Stands Still music where far from being transported somewhere else it roots you to the spot and makes you want to listen. Rob Milne is a multi-instrumentalist who plays wonderful Jazz.
“My dad is an amateur pianist with an amazing ear,” Rob told us, “so it’s always been a part of my life. About 20 years ago I started clarinet lessons at the age of 8 but there are embarrassing cassette tapes of me singing and playing a toy casio keyboard recorded on a Fisher-Price tape recorder even younger than that!”
Rob has come a long way since then making music that feels both simple and complex at the same time. It has touches of sax, drums, guitar and electro. The trained ear could probably unravel it all but why would you want to? Just experience it, don’t spoil the moment with analysis.
You can only title a track “The Stars Look On Without Comment” and simply call the album it’s on Rob Milne if you can make the music live up to it. It’s on Bandcamp, so have a listen.
“I'm interested in exploring ways of combining my jazz background with all the weird possibilities of electronic music and this time around I wanted to make something a bit dark. I was reading Schopenhauer and feeling pessimistic.” Rob has recently come back from a big concert in Zagreb, but you can catch him with his other band Nebula Sun on Saturday 7thJuly on our Introducing stage in Chapelfield Gardens in Norwich.
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