Gary Holmes
Let's start with some questions. What came first, the chicken or egg, or did the theme song come before the movie it's about? Films have soundtracks, but have you ever heard the soundtrack to a novel? In the fast paced music industry, it seems like once you become familiar with artists, you never hear about them again. Rarely do you hear about anybody who is ground breaking or trend setting. So take a moment to be introduced to Gary Holmes.
Unlike almost every artist you are already familiar with, Gary Holmes is unique in a number of ways. First, Gary's songs are a musical journey. Like the soundtrack to an imaginary film, the songs tell stories that take listeners into the movie theater of their mind's eye. In other words, something like radio theater before the invention of television, it's an audio drama experience.
Some of his songs musically project selected cinematic images. For example, more than reading the novel, watching the David Lean film version of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations", inspired story re-telling from the movie as the songs "Miss Havisham and Mistress". Other selections explore spirituality, challenges to the world status quo, and Gary's life experiences. Amid sincere songwriting , Theater for the Blind, the fictional coffee house band struggling to survive, lends the element of humorous fantasy to a musical stage wealthy with literature based songs, double meanings and metaphors.
With this debut CD, "Water", Gary Holmes invites you to put your headphones on; turn the lights down and the stereo up; close your eyes , and visualize the sound. Like the days of radio theater, there's no television screen to look at.