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Blone Noble Credit: Matthew Moyer<\/p>\nBlone Noble Credit: Matthew Moyer<\/p>\n
Dance with new-wave crooner Blone Noble and his synthesized torch songs at the resurgent Panic! night Friday in the Milk District.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt [Blone Noble] was a way to have a more full way of living,\u201d sole Noble-man Patrick Salaway tells Orlando Weekly. \u201cIt\u2019s being revealed to me through the act of doing it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
For chameleonic Los Angeles-based artist Salaway, Blone Noble was his first mask-as-creative persona that felt authentic, so he dove in headfirst. This persona allowed him to create his own reality, through a louche \u201cdeviant-pop\u201d vessel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the earliest age, I kind of lived in this alternate reality of my own making,\u201d Salaway says. \u201cAnd the necessities of reality always kept pulling me back, but I think I\u2019ve successfully committed entirely to my own world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Growing up in Chino, California, in the heart of the Inland Empire, Salaway was shaped by a scene of punk rebellions, one that offered a glimpse into the life he wanted to create for himself. Through Blone Noble, he found a way to channel that vision into a collage-like project made up of 1980s aesthetics paired with his own poetry and writings.<\/p>\n
Salaway says the Inland Empire\u2019s punk scene played a formative role in shaping both his identity and sound, offering him an outlet that contrasted with the silent, oppressive life he lived in high school.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs early as I can remember, I knew I wanted to be a performer,\u201d Salaway says. \u201cAll the older people in my life, I just couldn\u2019t wrap my head around why they wouldn\u2019t want to do something fun and exciting, instead of coming home from their jobs and complaining all the time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Salaway says he had no idea that music would become his path, recalling that he was initially drawn to extravagant storytelling set in worlds beyond his own, like Popeye, Jurassic Park and James Bond.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to do that, I was always making costumes and thinking of my life. I just knew I would do something, I thought, in movies,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t until Salaway was given an old beat-up Squire guitar for his 12th birthday by a friend\u2019s dad that he started his music endeavors, learning power chords and starting a punk band with like-minded peers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom then on, I just always had bands,\u201d Salaway says. \u201cIt was punk that kind of woke me up to this alternate reality that I could be living in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Much of Salaway\u2019s sound stems from a need to escape the workaday world and live life on his own terms, existing entirely within the world he creates with his art. \u201cI am definitely committed to living in a world that I\u2019m creating,\u201d he emphasizes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of Salaway\u2019s daily rituals that spur him on creatively \u2014 or even just help him make it through the day \u2014 is writing prose, after getting into the habit of journaling 15 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt turned into a daily thing I needed to do. It\u2019s a function really, I realized that if I didn\u2019t do this thing, I just felt off-kilter,\u201d Salaway says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Through this writing practice, he chooses lyrics and scrapbooks his art into the musical mask of the synth-driven Blone Noble. His favorite part of making music is to write meaningful lyrics, but through a careful harvesting of his previous drafts and ideas and themes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not that kind of songwriter, you know, I like to tell stories,\u201d Salaway says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After years of not quite fitting the Cinderella-shoe of sound in previous projects, Salaway says that he needed a persona that he could perform through, like David Bowie or Peter Gabriel used. It felt more authentic to him to channel his songs through the voice of a character.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feeds me more, I get more out of it, rather than approaching it just myself,\u201d Salaway says.<\/p>\n
Salaway\u2019s previous project of 10 years, the cosmic rock & roll band Veneer, felt somewhat like an apprenticeship to him, and was the first musical project that he embarked on in his adult life. Still, it wasn\u2019t a mask that fit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t figure out a way to represent it visually in a way that felt satisfying,\u201d Salaway says. \u201cI needed the mask, and Blone Noble is that for me. It\u2019s like sort of a prism that I shine this thing through and it does something else.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
To Salaway, this persona-as-mask is essential to preserving his own inner life. While picking the mask he wanted to use, Salaway had to make the conscious decision to deviate from the monotonous grind of everyday life, like keeping a job he had no interest in keeping just to survive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cChoosing a mask that I want and throwing that out there in people\u2019s faces, like really putting it out there, it has this sort of freeing effect, to where it has become so strong for me that it eradicated all the other masks that weren\u2019t working,\u201d Salaway says. \u201cThose aren\u2019t necessary anymore, because I\u2019ve just got one good one now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Salaway\u2019s collection of discarded misfit masks led him to his goal: a life authentically lived through collaging his passions onstage. Finding it almost impossible to function without expressing himself through this mask, a sonic epiphany came in the form of putting aside the guitar in favor of a synth. (This writer gets it; more synth, please!)<\/p>\n
The other catalyst for Salaway\u2019s Blone Noble was 2020\u2019s shutdown of the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading him down a rabbit-hole of writing and eventually finding the sound he calls \u201cdoomsday disco.\u201d And then the name? Well, it fortuitously just fell into his lap.<\/p>\n
Initially encountering \u201cBlone Noble\u201d in a word jumble that was left out somewhere, everything fell into place. Here was a name that encapsulated all the aesthetics of his project: lyrics collaged from past prose, pop provocateurs of days gone by that inspired him and a heavy, romantic synth-pop sound.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat combination of words just really stuck with me and felt really evocative. I couldn\u2019t get it out of my head,\u201d Salaway says.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now Blone Noble is preparing to release a new EP, Dominator. Seeking to create music custom-built for the dance floor, he and collaborator James Matthew Seven produced the title track seemingly on the spot. And so a tone was set.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just kind of happened naturally and I was touring a lot, but I thought, instead of writing from an intellectual place \u2014 since I\u2019m always focused on lyrics and a message \u2014 for this I just wanted to write banging pop songs that would get people moving,\u201d Salaway says.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s Panic! showcase should be an excellent test run for these songs, as this is a crowd hungry to get down on the dancefloor, soundtracked by Blone Noble, opener Ortrotasce and the resident DJs. Move your body to\u00a0 these synthy confessions of a mask.<\/p>\n
9 p.m. Friday, May 22, Iron Cow, 2438 E. Robinson St., facebook.com\/ironcowsushilounge, $17.85.<\/a><\/p>\n Related Stories<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\tValerie Von Voss\u2019 vulnerable slideshow chronicles her sexual awakening \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\tOrtrotasce opens \u2014 Friday night at Iron Cow\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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