LAZULI VANE

Name: Patrick Taylor
Rad Gig: Singer/songwriter
Location: Beaches

Where can you find Pam at?

Website: lazulivane.com
Instagram: @lazulivane
Facebook: facebook.com/lazulivane
Email: https://lazulivane.bandcamp.com

By: Garret Mantle

Patrick Taylor… Lazuli Vane… Let those two names sink in for a bit…

Taylor is truly gifted as a guitarist and exceptionally talented behind the mic. He is deeply driven by his unconscious state of mind, always concocting some groovy psychedelic tune to bless our ears with. He began playing guitar over 20 years ago at the age of nine and has recently brought his astounding talent to Jacksonville from Atlanta. His reasons for making the trek down here were his friends, the beach and the sense of freedom and happiness he gained from past visits. Taylor’s stage name, “Lazuli Vane,” is emotionally charged and well thought out with a lot of sentimental aspects. The name “Vane” comes from the main character in George Macdonald’s 1895 novel called “Lilith,” a book which gave Taylor courage in exploring new doorways in the deep mind early in life. The name “Lazuli” comes from a blue stone called Lapis Lazuli that evokes the qualities of regality, truth, wisdom, spirit and vision. Seeing as he loves the color blue and has characteristically blue eyes, that was icing on the cake for why he put Lazuli with Vane for a one of kind stage name.

Lazuli Vane’s debut album, “The Orphic Right of the Cult of Sedna,” takes you on a journey like none other. His creative process is very unique. He taps into the unconscious state of mind through dreams, meditation and all kinds of play and experimentation in order to invoke the content of his creations. Once he has dived deep into the well of the unconscious mind, he begins his creative expression with an improvisational approach. Riding each creative wave, speaking freely without too much self-analysis or judgement, riffing, writing free verse, even just doodling or sketching. While riffing or “riding the creative wave,” Taylor plays until something hits that feels beyond his conscious realm and captures it. He then later takes those recordings and works on them until they make an effect on his conscious mind. As he puts it, “finds the invisible fruits.” Lazuli Vane’s fruits for the first album were primarily focused on the dark, shadowy underworld of his own mind that he voluntarily accessed in order to parse up deep patterns of being. Taylor states “The dark underworld of the mind and the darker times in our lives aren’t necessarily all bad. They’re natural parts of transformation, dissolving old thought processes and patterns in order for new ones to arise. It’s similar to the circle of life: with death comes rebirth, only it’s within one’s mind, within all of our minds.”

Lazuli Vane has always got some creative masterpiece in the works. For the newest project, Taylor is taking the new gifts and values he’s retrieved from delving into the underworld and shedding light on them, bringing them into harmony with everyday life. He underwent a beautiful eye-opening adventure, camping through Colorado, New Mexico and Texas and across the much of the country before settling for the month of October at Snaggy Mountain Farm, a music and arts retreat north of Asheville, NC. Through this experience he gained an insightful confirmation of his path in life, his reason for being. Though this new album is still untitled, it will be almost the opposite of his previous work, depicting ways to find and create heaven on earth, being in love, and being full of life. It compliments his first album, this time showing the other end of the circle of life: the rebirth. 

I personally cannot wait until the light of this new album reaches our eyes and its sound waves bless our ears with this new-found perspective of happiness. The future is bright for Lazuli Vane.

I was able to sit down with Lazuli vane and ask a few questions.

Who the heck are you? Where the heck did you come from?

Hello my name is Patrick Taylor. I go by Lazuli Vane in the music world, or in my own little music world. I recently moved to Neptune beach form Atlanta because I love it here, I have incredible friends here, there’s a beautiful community, and we share, idk we’ve got good friends we can share our feelings, share life, that’s important to me. And the sun, the beach, and all the inspiration here, and all the healing and just all the beauty of this place has drawn me here. I love it.

Why type of music do you play?

I would say I make kinda like groovy psych rock dude. A lot of things, I like to experiment. I like to pull in aspects from some of my favorite composers, some of my favorite world music, some of my favorite bossanova. I like to kinda mix things up in a little stew but any the end of the day it comes out kinda of a trippy groovy collage of sound.

What is your favorite thing about playing music?

So there’s two different facets to what I love about music. Theres the part that happens alone in the creative kind of nest where I can go be alone in a cave and create, and reflect, and create recordings. So I think of that kinda like sound painting. But then the other aspect of that is the spontaneous thing that happens in a room full of other musicians when we are just creating, and jamming, and hanging out making something beautiful together. Those for me are the two kinda pinnacle sides of the process that enjoy the most.