Stylistically creating the kind of music that leaves its impact only after the first listen, artist Dwayne Ward has rightfully emerged on the scene to allow the audience to groove endlessly to his energized soundscapes, meant to impress the listeners. Driving with innate passion and diversity in his sounds, the rock n roll music creator composes sounds that vary from a sound of thunder just ripping across the sky, heavy like an iron fist, and then quickly changes the whole melody line to something quietly intriguing and retreating. His heavy splurging sounds followed by delicate whisper hooks the audience till the end as he uses various shades of guitar strings and high-octane sounds to brilliantly establish his mark as a proficient musician. One of the finest examples is his latest song ‘Freedom’ which explores similar harmonies to efficiently portray the talented artist’s creative ideas. Kicking off on a slightly intricate note, the song gets quickly overshadowed by heavy guitar riffs that instantly uplift the mood. Hailing from Ireland, the artist has teamed up with different musicians and has several releases lined up for 2021. His songs are available on YouTube for a full listen.
Our team had the opportunity to share a brief conversation with this music master and he was quite keen on sharing his musical journey with us. Read below to find out some unheard, interesting stories about the singer.
Q: Tell us something about your music.
The type of music I look to pay 9 times out of 10 is something that’s got a good groove or swing to it, its gonna be able in some way someone the feeling to tap the foot to the beat, you know go with the feel of it I suppose, in another word its rock n roll tunes with a lot of groove and energy, some of the stuff could make you feel as if, yeah that’s kinda cool and mellow, and then bang, the next one would be like a fright train hitting you straight in between the eyes, so yeah I like to mix it up when I can.
Q: Describe the thematic and musical linearity of your soundscape.
My sound varies from a sound of thunder just ripping across the sky, heavy like an iron fist, but then I can make it go into retreat mode almost, all of the loudness and heaviness goes and all that’s left is a delicate whisper of musical notes, that seems to be coming from miles away, I always love that concept on the guitar, light, and shade, you know one minute all turned up to 11, next as quickly as you’d like and bang, shade time if you can get it right when you playing on stage, it works really really well.
Q: What are your new releases?
For the past 6,7 months I’ve been working and playing with different types of musicians and players and working on different types of ideas and songs and all that kinda thing, I’ve just a bucket load of ideas and riffs and songs to record that I’ve nearly forgotten about, I will have new releases in 2021, 100 percent about that, there are two or three tunes that are nearly ready for people to hear but not just yet, I still want to add bits, take bits away if it needs it, you know tweak it a little.
Q: Where do you hail from?
I’m from Ireland, EIRE, the emerald isle, as they say, live in a small little village in co Meath, you know the essentials, Two pubs, and a shop, everyone knows everyone, it’s that kinda place.
Q: Are you associated with any record label or production house?
I have been I contact with a few independent Irish labels recently enough, so at the minute nothing is sealed and finalized, I’m just taking it as it comes at the minute, I’ve also worked with Garageland TV, here in Ireland to book gigs and stuff like that with them.
Q: How important are live gigs in the career of an artist?
It’s the bread and butter of any artist, in my opinion, I mean that’s what people look to when they go to see their favorite artist or band, a live show because it’s the music, it’s the feeling you get when you’re at a live show of pure euphoria, even going to see a local band in a pub or club that band knows they have to be good on that night because people are gonna say, ah yeah remember that band a few nights ago? Yeah well there playing again tonight and I’m going because they were dead last time. That’s how bands get such a big following because yes their album sounds unreal, but live, the artist, the songs they feel and sound very different.
Q: What is the responsibility of the audience in the expansion of music and artists around the world?
Well without an audience, for a start not many artists would be doing what there doing right now, it’s so important because if nobody is turning other people on to new artists, bands old artists, bands that era and generation could easily be forgotten about, it’s even more important now with all this technology that we have in our fingertips, we can just pick up the phone, Google and artist we like, then share it to social media and other people will see this and they might like it, and that’s a social media audience, like and sharing music, sending files and all that stuff, so yeah an audience is massive.
Q: Which old-school and new-school musicians inspire your work the most?
Musicians that always inspire me to pick the guitar and play something or whatever, would be the likes of Eddie Van Halen, Angus young, slash, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rory Gallagher them kinda guys, but the most to me defiantly is Rory Gallagher, man when I heard him play for the first time, I think I was 5 or 6, but it just blew me away and I said I wanted to do that, it was just the most amazing thing when I heard and seen the DVDs of him play, to me he is the greatest of all time.
Q: Do you think the music industry will change its course post-2020?
It’s hard to say what’s gonna happen next especially this year and this crazy time we’re all in, but I think yes it will change in the following few years, I’m starting to see a lot of younger bands starting to pop up so yeah that sounds interesting.
Q: What are your upcoming plans?
Well for 2021 it’s defiantly to release new material, get that out there, gig it, all going well with the virus hopefully being gone so we can gig again, write keep on writing new ideas, new songs and see what happens, take it one day at a time.
