Word: magus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gauguin is a legendary figure, with all the accretions that entails. His legend was helped by other people's fictions, though Gauguin's own existential posturings as hero, Christ-martyr, magus, savage and artist-criminal lay at its root. For many, the hero of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence is still the "real" Gauguin -- a stockbroker and Sunday painter who cracks out of the bourgeois egg, dumps his wife, family and career and hightails it to Tahiti to "find himself" among the breasts and breadfruit. He is part brute and part escape artist, the Houdini of the avant...
According to Magus, "the best music being written in this country right now is being written in the basements and attics." He says he feels that the pop scene is so impoverished artistically because "economic laws are ruling the market. People are more cautious because they remember being ripped off." As a result, a lot of great music goes unheard, he says...
...Magus is a former performance artist, and he resembles David Byrne in his spontaneous, sharp movements onstage, as he combines speaking with the singing of his highly personal lyrics...
...describing the effect he hopes his lyrics will have on the band's audience, Magus discusses Plato's theory on the esoteric and the exoteric, saying that the hidden meaning of his songs will become apparent after repeated listenings. "I like my songs to be sort of like a window to look through; you can see anything however you want to," Magus has said...
...band says its following is growing steadily. "It's kind of like the Prell commercial, where two friends came to watch, and they told two friends, and so on, and so on," Magus says...