Urbaniak is an oddity and a curiosity in this world of art – and – it’s quite difficult to describe the beauty within which he lives and creates. His whole world is a wonderfully delirious imagination rendered into reality. He lives in a yurt, in a forest, on an island in the Yellowstone River, and is surrounded by the mountains of Montana with his 100% adorable pup, Wilbur – it’ truly, and absurdly, brilliant to experience his home, and the wonder it contains. The island and Wes have become so integrated, that it is not certain which is on the outside, and which is in the inside…
His songwriting is real – the stories within and the practice of being well, honorable, decent, connective, and deep are all flexes on the reality he renders – his art is massively supported by full immersion of the self into it – every aspect – every step. His shop and studio are also on the island where he lives, wanders, and pokes at the nature of the curious mind. In the shop, he builds instruments primarily from reclaimed sources (100+ year old pianos / Red Rock Amphitheater Benches / naturally felled tree). In the studio, and wandering the island in the many hours of each day, he has learned to pull the strings around on most stringed instruments. His mind hears symphonies, his heart (Coyote) drives him to create them by pulling the whole world through his Spirit (Ala) and into a form of art, music, poetry, and dreams pushed into reality.
Here we go Bearishly into what comes next…
Thinker. Builder. Experimenter. Fairytale. Science.
Full Immersion. Full Isolation. It’s alright to be mad wild with your art. So be it.
Long Walker. Luthier. Author. Revealer.
Mountain Folk – the genre
Mountain Folk isn’t just mixed genres that are rooted in folk. Although that doesn’t seem so bad, it is so much more. It’s more than that because all the songs fit into the same genre paradigm. Mountain Folk is a genre. It’s a genre that is full of hard stops, flash flood dynamics, and mauling measures of lyrical flow. It is, at times, suffering from split-song personality, but so beautifully done that it articulates supernaturally as a sort of maddened and feverish poetry. It is fierce when it must be, and kind when it is needed.
Music to download and spin.
Videos.
Images.
Stage Plot.
PDF – WuMF.