There’s a musical anomaly pulsing from the heart of the South Bay. It’s got grit. It’s got soul. It’s got Sean Reed (lead vocals, bass, age 19), Tyler Bozeman (guitar, backup vocal, age 18), Zach Bozeman (drums, backup vocal, age 21). They are Temporal Love.
The furnaces of today’s nauseating industrial pop factory are churning out Biebers and Britneys at an overwhelming, inescapable rate. Teen idols become the voice box and face for mass marketed product which can hardly be classified as good music, and even less so as art. But Temporal Love, as young as they are, come from the old school.
I’d never met them before they sent me their debut recording of the single “Blue Dream” (available now for listen and download on DirtyHippieRadio.com). I thought it was fantastic, but when I looked deeper into them I discovered that they were comprised of ’07 and ’09 RUHS and Costa graduates. It’s incredibly refreshing and reinvigorating to hear such young people producing such thick, raw music.
They come from the cream of the days when a teenage Steve Winwood sang his booming soul out on Spencer Davis Group’s “Gimme Some Lovin”; when a 22 year old Michael Bloomfield joined Paul Butterfield; when young talent was roaring like a forest fire from the heart of the sun. Temporal Love’s psychedelic-blues rock and roll power trio is cut from the same cloth. They’re jamming out some seriously good, real music.
“We really just play music as an artistic outlet and a self-express tool,” says Tyler Bozeman. “Our main style we like to play is blues, or really heavily blues-influenced rock… We are also heavily into improvisation, or “Fat Jams.”
Their influences cover a broad array of blues, rock, funk, and punk greats, while also expanding into more peculiar colors of the musical spectrum, such as Ethiopian jazz and Latin rhythms. From Sunny Boy to MC5, Hendrix to Herbie Hancock, James Brown to Black Flag, Mulatu Astatke to Wolfmother, these guys are influenced by all sound.
“We like to take influence from everything in our surroundings, not even strictly music. We just enjoy sounds!” says T. Bozeman. “When it comes to our musical influences we’re mainly into blues and soul… The beautiful thing about the blues is it’s all amazing! Any person can get their hands on it and give it their own spin and truly shine their soul through their music.”
In response to the nature of today’s music industry, Temporal Love is applying a curious and strategic approach to the recording and release of their tunes.
“We’re taking the recording process rather slow because we are doing everything ourselves,” says T. Bozeman. “As sad as it is to say, we no longer live in a time where people rely strictly on vinyl and the radio for their music, therefore the “album” isn’t as important as it used to be. It’s a very fast-paced world nowadays, and people don’t have time to sit and listen to a full record.”
He continues, “Our approach is to release our songs one at a time. We’re song to song writers, spending equally large amounts of time on each one, and we cringe at the idea of people skipping over five songs on a nine-song album because the patience just isn’t there… With the internet making it so easy for people to just listen to their favorite singles, people have sort of “evolved” to have a favorite song… as opposed to paying attention to an artist’s whole body of work.” He concedes, “However, we are serious believers in the album… so once we have a good seven or eight songs out as singles, then we do have a conceptual approach to putting a full LP together. People need to be eased into things today, and this is our way of easing them into the full length.”
Temporal Love play Springfest in Redondo Beach April 15. ER
