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Influences
Randy Newman, Jon Brion, Paul Simon, Ron Sexsmith, Sufjan Stevens, classical music from Bach and Mozart to Chopin, any old musical or cabaret of any kind, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Queen, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Bjork, Radiohead, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Cat Stevens, The Velvet Underground, Edith Piaf, so much more rock, jazz, punk, folk and of course, without a doubt you.
Sounds Like
As if a singer songwriter like Ron Sexsmith was a bus and ran into a piano cabaret songwriter like Rufus Wainwright.
Royal Wood has a river to cross. On one side lies the critically
acclaimed full-length A Good Enough Day, which featured songs smooth as
pebbles polished by water's caress. Over and above the rave reviews the
album received, Royal's efforts earned invitations to tour nationally
with the likes of songstresses Sarah Slean, Kathleen Edwards, Jill
Barber and Serena Ryder.
On the other bank awaits the much-anticipated full-length follow-up,
when Royal will build on the experience gained in so many trips across
Canada, Europe and the US honing songs old and new for appreciative
audiences. New material has been heard in recent shows, including
several sold-out sets and a stellar night at the Mod Club in Toronto
that was recorded for CBC Canada Live on Radio 2 and nationally
broadcast this year.
To bridge these albums, on March 24th 2009 Royal will release The Lost
and Found EP - a "message in a bottle" collection that will assure fans
and critics that Royal is not lost at sea, adrift on an ocean of highway
on tour.
Royal is known for velvety vocals and elegant piano-crafted melodies,
and The Lost and Found EP will further showcase these familiar elements
in a set of songs that turn the spotlight on lyrical expression and
orchestral scores. As the title of the EP suggest, these songs are
treasured keepsakes, recovered from the past or discovered anew.
"Wood is on his way to establishing himself alongside the Canadian
royalty of artists such as Sexsmith and Wainwright. " - EXCLAIM MAGAZINE
His music has been featured on several US and Canadian TV and movie soundtracks;
most recently ABC's hit show Grey's Anatomy and Army Wives. The list also includes the HBO series Regenisis, the CBC series This is Wonderland,
the CTV movie Playing House, the film The End of Silence starring Sarah
Harmer, and the Warner Music Canada soundtrack to the Food Network's The
Surreal Gourmet (with other artists including Feist, Tom Waits, The
Flaming Lips, Moby, Aretha Franklin) and more.
Royal became a multi-instrumentalist by his early teens after beginning
on the piano at the tender age of four. By his early twenties, he had
written, self-produced and arranged his first record. Now you will hear
him pushing his own musical boundaries with his heart open exploring
love, heartache and the questions that drive us all.
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Hey! I've been listening to your tunes hardcore lately. Can't wait until I can get out to see you live sometime. Good luck at all those festivals this summer, should be a blast. Take care,
Hello Hello, Whats up? I gotta say thanks for being my friend on here. I wanted to let you know that I uploaded a couple new beats you can check em out below. Let me know whats new with yourself.
Finally got to see you perform live last night at Hugh's Room and thought the show was really, really amazing, right down to your argyle socks Thank you!
Thanks for the add - I saw you play for the first time yesterday at Hugh's room, and the show was fantastic! My favourite song of the night must have been The Island. Looking forward to the new stuff. Really enjoyed the double bass. Thank you.
Hey Royal Wood, seen you recently in the acadmey in dublin when you were with emm gryer! good concert, Thanks for the add, check out my new band www.myspace.com/pnewmotourax, let me know what you think, add us if like what you hear! Cheers!
Been listening to your CD quite consistently for nearly a year now (since I saw you open for Sarah in Calgary and then Winnipeg last year) but I just realized last night that I didn't even have you added on MySpace.
Anyway, keep up the good work. Looking forward to picking up the new EP. Unfortunately, I'll be out of town and won't be at the Serena Ryder show in Winnipeg on Sunday, but hopefully you'll come through on a headlining tour again soon.
OK - totally weird moment for me last night. I turned on the TV just before 10 pm, and I start to hear "Mirror without a Face".
I'm wondering how your song could possibly be on TV, then Holy Moly Batman! I realize that "Mirror without a Face" is playing out the final scenes of Gray's Anatomy and the episode focuses on a man who got a face transplant!
What??
.... whatever it was, I hope it brings you well deserved fame and fortune.
(You know, some people actually put that as a selling point on their myspace ... "The hit single, ___ as heard on Gray's Anatomy". Ok, well I might skip the part about how the song sorta ties in with the face transplant. A tad to hokey to be taken seriously. But if you want, NOT seriously - well that's a whole new ball of string!).
My brilliant friend.... Happy St. Patrick's Day! It's celebrations all around this month: the launching of your latest CD, your birthday. Speaking of birthdays, I must buy a ticket to your Hugh's Room show in May, a birthday present to myself! Regards to your family. Miss you muchly, wishing you all good things, as always, love and harmony, Rosemary
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