Member Since: 9/1/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/waynehiggins
Band Members: David Wayne Higgins: Epiphone Sheraton, Fender Stratocaster, DanElectro Black Coffeee Distortion, Morley Volume Pedal, Line 6 Modulation Modeler, Line 6 Delay Modeler, Line 6 Filter Modulator, Lexicon MR-200 Dual Reverb Effects Processor, PAIA Quadrafuzz, Lexicon Omega Desktop Recording Studio, E Machines T2542 Computer (RAM upgrade 768)
Influences: The drone on Fripp and Eno's "Heavenly Music Coperation". Robbie Krieger's lead guitar solo in "When the Music's Over." Randy California's lead in "The Girl in Your Eye." George Harrison's "Wah-Wah." The ending fade out on the first part of Tangerine Dream's "Rubycon." Bloodrock's jam on "Breach of Lease". Keith Jarrett's "Koln Concert". Popol Vuhs soundtrack album "Nosferatu". Nat King Cole's album "The Very Thought Of You". Johnny River's cover of "Maybelline. Brian Eno's "Apollo", "Thursday Afternoon" and "Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)". Mike Oldfield's "Tubilar Bells". Schoenberg's "Verklarte Nacht". The second movement of Mahler's second symphony "The Resurrection". The Strangler's "Turn the Centuries, Turn". Bil Nelson "The Summer Of God's Piano", Glenn Buxton lead's on all the Alice Cooper albums he played on. Everything I have ever listened to produced or recorded by Bob Ezrin, Martin Birch and Tony Visconti. And I could go on and on and on.
Sounds Like: Long, 4-5 hours per disc. So, forget about time. No drums, no vocals. It's like being in the back of the casino playing draw poker machine until 5 am. Like the very ending of a heavy metal song when it fades out and the singer passes out and the drummer goes to get a beer and the guitar player leaves his amp on and it feedbacks. Everyone that stays up late playing games or surfing the net or reads or draws or colors or does cross-word puzzles or any puzzle for that matter. I wanted to do music that didn't end. I was tired of the switching, tired of "what should I put on next?" emptiness. If I have to drive/travel for five hours, I want it to last. If I'm at work, and I put on a disc, I don't want to have to think about changing it before lunchtime. If I am at home reading a book, I don't want to have to get up if the book gets really good. Oenyaw is about not being disturbed. Oenyaw is about being alone, bored, nothingness, and enjoying it.
Record Label: Out of business
Type of Label: Indie