Jazz funk & indie folk harmonize when you're Myles From Home

Vancouver based Myles from Home recently took the stage at Revelry Food + Music Hub. Before hand, they stopped by the Kelowna10 Studio to chat about the emerging group.

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

K10: How would you define the sound of Myles from Home?

Myles Hildebrand: We like to say its indie folk goes on a successful first date with jazz funk. So, I play guitar and sing, and I have sort of a folky style. But I’ve also been in rock bands for years, so I'd kind of dig and get sweaty and throw in some high kicks and the rhythm section is definitely funky, jazzy kind of vibe. So that all kind of mixes into my arsenal.

K10: How do your roots from Manitoba influence the group?

Myles: I'm from Manitoba originally. Both of the boys in the band right now are from Ontario, originally.

We were in a band in Montreal called Café Racer, I moved out here a couple years ago now and then Josh moved out here just recently and then I met Clark out here whose from Ontario as well. I come from a background of classic rock on the radio as I was growing up, lots of, you know, Elton John and Bob Dylan growing up just kind of where a lot of my roots sort of started in terms of this West Coast influence, probably a bit.

K10: Talk to us about your upcoming single release, Dusty Lavender and what it’s all about?

Myles: It’s a song about the experience of being in a relationship with spending a lot of time with someone who has a very different outlook on the world and on the cosmos and the way that the universe works.

I’m a scientist by trade, but I often find myself spending a lot of time with people that don't believe in science, but just have a different way of interpreting the world, and so that's what the song is about.

The song is about a character called Dusty Lavender and the songwriters are trying to understand the way that this person's mind thinks. We recorded it back in June, so I've been sitting on it for a while. We've already released two songs from our new album, this is the third one coming out slowly building up our album, which is releasing next year.

K10: What is a live show like for Myles from Home?

Myles: It’s a rock-and-roll show. I play a 12-string guitar which is a challenge, and it ends up giving it this campfire kind of vibe. We try to go I try and mix sort of campfire vibes with stadium rock vibes. That's kind of like the ideal world that I want to live in. We like jumping around, throwing out kicks, getting sweaty with it. So, it's mixing some antics and some storytelling for sure. I do like telling the stories between the songs.

K10: What do you think sets you apart from other bands?

Myles: At this point we still write the songs we want to write. We're independently managed, we don’t have any labels that's supporting us right now. I come to the group with songs that I really care about that are moments that are based on moments in my life that have been important to me or emotions that have been really important to me.

I started writing much more personal moments into music, and then I bring them to the band and then we kind of have fun with them. We play the music that we would want to listen to, that we would want to that that we would find interesting both from bopping your head, dance around, but also kind of like a ‘that's an interesting take on that.’