Masked and anonymous … the secret life of The Foole

For almost two decades I featured new music from aspiring artists on my radio shows, Leigh G Banks’s The Trip and Leigh G Banks’s The Dinner Party.

Last year I changed tack and now have a cable TV show and make documentaries, so radio has taken a back seat.

For now.

Meantime, performers are still sending me their work for promotion – and we have used a few over the past few months on the Preservation Society site.

Here’s another one … can’t tell you who he is, cos he is a Masked Singer called The Foole … here’s what he has to say about himself. And one of his songs.

The quite beautiful Don’t Call it Love…

“The Foole is an artist and a concept.

In olden times, the Fool or court Jester, under the guise of entertainment, would also make social statements and speak truths about the human condition.

Born out of the streets of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, this masked multi-instrumentalist  puts the emphasis solely on the music and the stories that are being told.

Stories of love lost, lingering feelings for past relationships, struggles with one’s mortality, infidelity, and a few upbeat romps that everyone needs to distract from mundane and sometimes negative world views.

Much like The Beatles later work, no two songs are alike in mood, sound or story,except  the sounds you hear were written , performed, engineered and produced by the man behind the white mask with  a little help from his friends. 

The Debut album “…from this point of view” while a thoroughly modern sounding recording, pays homage to the great artists of the past and present; The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Prince, Radiohead, and David Bowie.

The first single “Don’t Call it Love” is a response  to when the one you love decides to leave, and they say “but I still love you “…the one left behind thinks…”if you love me you wouldn’t leave”, so “Don’t call it Love”  is a song that could easily fit any playlist that includes such huge artists as Adele and Coldplay,etc.

There are tracks on this album that may be challenging  for some to listen to, from the hauntingly beautiful ballad “Hey Suicide” which talks to suicide as if it were a character or a person.

Then there’s “The Fool”, about a friend of the famed “Major Tom” in the song “Space Oddity”  the Foole laments with pain ” I miss Major Tom, now that he is gone now” as a tribute to  losing the character and the artist David Bowie that created him.”

The Songs

PRELUDE TO ROK U

THE FOOL

LOVE LIES  BLIND

DON’T CALL IT LOVE

PAIN IN MY HEART

JUST NO GETTING OVER U

HEY SUICIDE

TAK ME HOME

U MAKE ME SMILE

I WILL ROK U

All songs written, performed , produced and engineered by The Foole except

Aldo Vaccaro Lead guitars on Prelude to ROK U and I WILL ROK U

Chris Jackson back Vocals on PAIN IN MY HEART,JUST NO GETTING OVER U, HEY SUICIDE,TAKE ME HOME, U MAKE ME SMILE, I WILL ROK U

Tony Moretta  solo guitars on Prelude To Rok U and I WILL ROK U 

middle solo and back vocals on Hey Suicide and I WILL ROK U

Kelly Noseworthy back vocals on THE FOOL , HEY SUICIDE, TAKE ME HOME, U MAKE ME SMILE, I WILL ROK U, JUST NO GETTING OVER U

TRACY GOULDING back vocals on I WILL ROK U, and HEY SUICIDE

WEBSITE thefoole.com

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/nicki.thefoole.1/

TWITTER  @thefoole1   INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/thefoolemusic/