Rush, Tatum
Guru Child
Born in San Diego, raised between Italy and Switzerland, Tatum Rush is the deliverer of a Soul so sweet it goes Pop. Accompanied by a perturbing yet sexy stage persona, his music incorporates at the same time the sensual machism of R&B and the campiness of a gay karaoke superstar. Cosmopolitan refrains, neo-soulful grooves, and a sensibility in its live delivery that could fit in a New Yorker noise-club as well as in the lobby of a 6 star hotel in Dubai. Multi-instrumentalist and producer, Tatum Rush does everything himself. At his shows he is escorted by various drummers such as Domi Chansorn and Luca Marini and by a trail of barely-eighteen-year-old girls, exhibitionists in the most noble artistic sense of the term. Before becoming Tatum Rush he was front man of several bands and bassist of Great Black Waters (Bjorn magnussen). With the publication of "Guru child" Tatum closes a chapter of his original songwriting coming of age. The chapter opened back in 2011 in a cement tower in the village of Brunnen, near the obscure Maharishi Mahesh Yogi temple, which was visited by personalities such as the Beatles and David Lynch. Bjorn Magnussons recording studio, filled with old clunky machines and an Auschwitz-coldness rising from the echo chambers, but a tropical heat in the music that was born. Cutting guitars, Motown grooves, and narratives of vacations in fifty-something shades of mingling and desire.