About Changes
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This US dark folk band has been active since the late 60s, and led through its various incarnations by writer and artist Robert Nicholas Taylor (b. Chicago, Illinois, USA). He inaugurated Changes in 1969 with his cousin Nicholas Tesluk (b. Chicago, Illinois, USA), playing acoustic gigs around his native Chicago. An expanded version of the band took shape in 1974, with Taylor’s wife Karen and Carol DePugh added to the line-up. Several demo tapes of material were recorded during this period but remained unreleased by the time of the band’s dissolution in 1977. Taylor remained active as a writer, poet and Neopagan activist, espousing moral and political beliefs that attracted the wrath of a number of left-wing groups.
Changes emerged from its long dormancy in 1994 when neo-folk musician and writer Michael Moynihan began championing the band’s unreleased demos. The album Fire Of Life, featuring remastered archive material, was released in 1996 on Moynihan’s Storm Records label. After receiving positive feedback, Taylor and Tesluk forged ahead with recording the new material that would comprise the ambitious 1998 release Legends, which attempted to encompass in song form the breadth of Taylor’s exhaustive research into European pagan myths.
Further albums of new and archive material by Changes have been released in the new millennium, and they remain a leading influence on the contemporary neo-folk scene. (NB: Not to be confused with the Italian jazz quartet or the US indie rock band of the same name.)
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