Neverending White Lights
| Neverending White Lights | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Windsor, Ontario |
| Genres | Rock, pop rock, indie |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Maple Music Recordings, Ocean Records |
| Website | www.neverendingwhitelights.com |
| Members |
Daniel Victor Assorted artists |
Neverending White Lights is a Canadian music collaboration project fronted by Daniel Victor from Windsor, Ontario, and featuring several artists mainly from Canada and the United States. Daniel Victor performs all musical instruments, with most of his songs featuring guest singers. The idea behind Neverending White Lights is to present a sampling of different voices, styles, and artists, while retaining the 'focused' sound characteristic of a band.
At the age of nineteen, Victor began to drift apart from working in the 'band-like' environments from his adolescence and experiment with multi-tracking himself in the studio. These early recordings eventually became the first batch of songs from his debut release, Act I: Goodbye Friends Of The Heavenly Bodies. Though proficient enough on most instruments, Victor felt that utilizing the same singer on every song could grow tired, and was all too common. The idea of movie soundtracks, compilations, and frequent collaborations on Hip-Hop records intrigued him, and he wanted to bring these ideas over to the indie-alt music world and create an entirely different sort of album: something he didn't have in his collection, but wanted to have. After making notes of all his favourite singers, he began sending compositions to the various vocalists he felt would be a good fit for the songs. His idea was to create something more interesting than just another album by another band, something that offered a bigger experience for the listener.
He was finding himself more influenced by textural sounds, cinematic production and melancholy songwriting. These were the basic attributes he tended to create given complete free rein on the music and production. He created worlds of ambience, melody, and emotion within each composition. 'Vibe' was very important to him. It wasn't just about 'songs', but about environments; how and where they live. He listed a wide range of influences, including: Brian Eno, Craig Armstrong, Jeff Buckley, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Kent, and Massive Attack; though it's impossible to cite the amount of music Victor digested on a weekly basis that would serve as a foundation for NWL's sound. For Victor, it was very important to have melody and atmosphere.
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