In my naivest dreams I'm a skilled multi-instrumentalist, an amazing singer and a talented songwriter (and a cyber-ninja, but that's another story).
Russian-born but Canadian-based Ilya Krivosheiko, a.k.a. Swampwolf, goes beyond my dreams by being all that and do it in the coolest way.
What I mean is that his way of playing and singing makes him look like that in his life he needs nothing more that an instrument to play, no matter which one, and everything else is pointless.
Needless to say that that is the utopia of every music lover, and I won't deny that many people living on such craves just are not enough willful to accomplish them (go read, Swampwolf's album credit: most of what he does is made entirely by himself in his bedroom, and his youtube channel is composed only of spontaneous, impromptu performances).
But I've to say that, as well, Ilya's music has something way more profound than the casual strumming songwriter wannabe. A song like "Metro-gnome", with its Dylan-ian vocation, its drunken rhythm, its daintiness (virtues spread all over Swampwolf's works), is the craft of a man not only doing what he likes to do, but also doing what he is good at and is meant to do.
