For a musician,
Jonathan Graves is incredibly preoccupied with the visual. The
multifaceted, many-layered and hauntingly beautiful sounds he
conjures in the name of Corbu – the band of which he is the
undisputed leader – will, more often than not, start and end with
images.
Drawing inspiration
from his dreams, Graves writes from a picture inside his head, trying
to craft a song which transmits that image through the listener’s
ear and into their mind’s eye. It’s an ambitious approach, the
success of which is impossible to gauge, but it is easy to quantify
the sheer quality of the mesmerising music Graves uses as a vehicle,
which swoops through lush soundscapes in a movie-sampling,
brain-spinning, eye-opening Technicolor world sitting on the far side
of indie pop.
