Andrés Wilson-vocals/guitar
Asia Mei-keyboards/vocals
Hiroshi Sambon & Paolo Lattanzi-drums
Louis Ochoa-bass
Graham Nelson-Mississippi harp
Influences
Do you want to read all day? Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jeff Buckley, Cream, Deep Purple, Apollinaire, Emerson & Thoreau, T.S. Eliot, Rimbaud, Kerouac, Boston (the city more than the band),Emily Dickinson, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Federico Fellini, Aerosmith, Weezer, Rav Shlomo Carlebach, Beaudelaire, Nick Drake, Rav Kook, the Hermans (Wouk & Hesse), The Pixies, Danny Elfman, dark American highways, Soundgarden, Borges, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers, Son House, Lightning Hopkins, Robert Johnson, Stevie Wonder, Mississippi, Boston, Yerushaliyim (shel zahav), Italia, Miles Davis, Jobim, Calogero, Joni Mitchell, Paris, Jacques Brel, Radiohead, Beaudelaire, Ben Harper, Sonic Youth, Erik Satie, Mudhoney, Asia Mei, The Holy Triumvirate (Malmsteen,Vai,Satriani), Magonia, Isaac Hayes, Mallarmé, Willie Nelson, Jim Hall, Simon and maybe Garfunkel, Dylan, Mahavishnu, Allan Holdsworth, Jon Finn, Joan Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Pat Metheny, Metallica, Guns n' Roses, Death, Woody Allen, Black Flag, Chuck Berry, BB King, Pavement, Frank Sinatra, The Rat Pack, Debussy, Hayehudim (The Jews), Idan Rychel, Everclear, Van Halen, Stevie Wonder, Iggy Pop, Doves, Pulp, Muse, Oasis, Coldplay, Klezmer, Arabic & Ethiopian folk music, the primordial, Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac, Smashing Pumpkins, Eric Johnson, blah,blah,blah...
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The son of two musicians, Andrés was named after his father’s idol, the famed classical guitarist Andrés Segovia. Only years later did the latent kismet of his name manifest itself in his singing guitar style. As his mother was a jazz pianist, his father a classical guitarist, and the rest of his family and friends avowed blues and hard rock aficionados, sounds as diverse as Hector Villa-Lobos, 50’s rock and Son House coexisted peacefully in his New England home.
After much begging and pleading, Andres picked up the guitar at the age of thirteen and began practicing over six hours a day. By the age of sixteen, he was touring New England and NYC with his mother and earning a reputation as the best young lead guitar player in Boston, a bona fide prodigy, through his work in the metal band, 69 Days. He also became a fixture at Boston blues jams, poetry slams and hung out mostly with punk rockers. But musically, it was always the unique sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Buckley, Nirvana, and other genre-fusing rock artists that caught his attention.
After graduating from Lawrence Academy, where he was the recipient of graduation awards for music and writing, Andres received a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he completed a summa cum laude B.M. in the Professional Music major (Fall 03’). Andres also earned the distinction of best rock guitarist in Boston in 2001 and again in 2002, beating out fellow shredders twice his age.
After graduating at only twenty years old, Andrés went on a quest of self-discovery. He traveled the world writing, playing and learning. Most of the material from Ink & Sound was written during those peregrinations.
A true cosmopolitan who has spent much time abroad and speaks several languages fluently, Andres has also studied classics, linguistics, and creative writing at colleges and universities around the globe and recently finishing an M.A. in medieval texts and translation at Columbia University. He has published many poems, has worked as a journalist and periodically plugs away at a novel, entitled "The Coffee Conversion".
The Waters was formed on his return in 2005. The music of Andres Wilson & The Waters blends his myriad of influences and precocious experience into intense, melodic, and richly poetic songs where Andrés’s supple, crooning voice rises and soars over the always-bluesy thrashing of inventive harmonies from his guitar. Sinuous, violin-like guitar lines embellish head-bobbing grooves with inventive pulchritude.
Listen to the debut album Ink & Sound (2006) and first stomp along with the infectious groove of the funky first single “A Million Miles”. Some songs give glimpses of the teen metal-head wailing away in his room to tribal, throbbing rhythms (“El Dorado” & “Poverty and Resource”). Others flirt with mainstream pop sensibilities and unforgettable hooks (“The Woods”, “Little Island”, “Home”), and while still others nod to Wilson’s diverse ancestry and cultural experiences embracing pure Mississippi, porch-stomping blues (“Ink & Sound”), Middle-Eastern modes and rhythms, and Celtic folk music. High-energy live shows are defined by jaw-dropping instrumental heroics, soul, and moments of vocal transcendence. His lyrics are full of rich imagery and illuminating symbols, impressionistic but easily deciphered by careful listeners. Andrés sings about alienation, our moments of color within the gray, and the epiphanies one experiences as life untangles like a roll of yarn. Every track is elevated by the first-class musicianship of The Waters (Louis Ochoa-bass, Asia Mei-keys/backing vocals, Hiroshi Sembon-drums, and Graham Nelson-harmonica).
Andres has performed in venues throughout the world, from the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston, to Pianos in New York, and from Artel in Israel, to Club Lambi in Montreal and across France. Now he hopes to bring his sound to all who will listen.
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