Brad Walsh – Antiglot II

By: Jamie Steinberg

Q) How would you describe your sound?

A) Normally, I produce pop and dance, but this album is vocal experimental. Lots of layers of sounds and tones, body sounds, all from me. No instruments, no lyrics. Just energies.

Q) Who are some of your musical influences?

A) The musicians I always return to are the women of the 90s that made me fall in love with music in the first place: Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Sheryl Crow, Sarah McLachlan, Amel Larrieux, Juliana Hatfield, Bjork, Poe, Tracy Chapman, Paula Cole, Liz Phair, Garbage.

Q) What is it about your initial experimental album Antiglot that made you want to release a second volume?

A) In the five years since the first one, I’ve had ideas here and there and recorded voice notes and demos. It finally came together during COVID when I had a lot of reflective time alone.

Q) What do you think it is about that album that fans really connected to or left a mark on them in some way?

A) It was a new way of making recorded music. It went beyond the genre of acapella; I was basically composing with my body. And the element of pop production with these body input sounds was a new thing. Bjork went there with her album Medulla, but she had lyrics and that was more the point. This was simply about getting emotions across with nothing more than the sounds of the body, with a heightened electronic production component.

Q) Antiglot II has no lyrics to the songs and is just composed of “body sounds.” Did you sculpt the songs around the sounds/layers or come up with a song concept and work the sounds into the music?

A) A polyglot is a person who speaks multiple languages, and so “Antiglot” is a term I coined since these songs have no lyrics. I usually start with the bass tracks first. And then let the song evolve and then figure out how it relates to me and name it from there.

Q) Which songs on Antiglot II hold a special place in your heart and what makes them so significant to you?

A) The ones about places around the globe remind me of my travels, so I get pictures of friends and landscapes when I listen to them.

Q) How much of a hand do you have in the production of your music?

A) 100% me!

Q) What songs off your LP are you looking forward to performing live?

A) These one are hard to perform live because there are hundreds of tracks layered, all of which are me. So, when I did the release of the last one, I asked the Phil Orsano Company to perform a dance to the whole album. It’s available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUziUl4FaII

Q) Who would you most like to collaborate with on a song in the future?

A) A female rapper.

Q) You are a part of social media. Why is that such an important way for you to connect with your fans?

A) With video media like TikTok and Instagram reels I am able to show off other artistic parts of my life, like my paintings and home design. And I can put my own music over those videos and when they spread, more people are exposed to my music as well. It takes a bit more work to keep up with all the social media outlets, but it drives the music in its own way.

Q) What would you like to say to everyone who is a fan and supporter of you and your work?

A) Support local music! Buy direct from the artists! If you stream an album so much that you think you’ll want it forever, buy it on iTunes! It’s hard out here for musicians without licensing. Don’t let smaller artists get strangled out of the industry.