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Artist: Wicked Lights

Who: Wicked Lights

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Two Charuson has worked for three decades to hone his craft, learning a variety of instruments along the way in order to create his songs. Born in Thailand he was schooled privately in the British countryside. This exposure to an alien culture represented an early culture shock, but it also opened up a new world musically. Forced to attend church, he learned to sing traditional hymns and to adapt to British cultural influences. He found solace in picking up a guitar and idolising Eric Clapton, Prince, Jeff Tweedy, Neil Young, Elliott Smith and Joy Division. Later, Two branched out to even more genres, attending a wide variety of musical performances in London and from many genres.

The music of Wicked Lights has evolved from these experiences and touches on themes of disillusionment, joy, love, sadness, courage and playfulness. Today Two lives and works in his native Bangkok, using his music to express the conflicts of identity that his background inevitably creates, but also exploring those same conflicts in the cosmopolitan, increasingly uprooted Thai capital itself. Playing all instruments himself, he has been able to create a unique and wholly personal response to these conflicts, creating in the process a musical style unlike anything else in the Asian landscape.

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