Marla Turner, Lisa Rudolph, Saul Willimas,Nicole Willis, Imani,Dj Mutamassik, Dj Singe, Gabriel Gordon, Kenny Wollesen, Karina Zeviani, Otto, Thor Madsen, N’dea Davenport, Jochen Rueckert,Paul Ogunsalo. Norah Jones, Bebel Gilberto, Sabina Sciubba, Vijay Iyer,Craig Taborn, Jamie Saft,Eddie Henderson, Clark Gayton,Jesse Murphy,Marlon Browden. All those players are on the records or they played live with Wax Poetic. On the record and on live shows I always look for that special tone in the musicians and I have been lucky to have found and played with quite a few over the years. Throughout the 6 records I have done so far, I always kept the spirit of collaboration, which has resulted with the band always having a changing cast of players. The first record has that sound, the mixture in between instruments and trip -hop beats and vibes. It was at that time i decided to start up Wax Poetic. I was hosting friday nights at the upstairs room where I was leading an experimental jam session, where i invited spoken word artists, dj’s, live sample making artists mixed in with traditional instruments like rhodes, drums, percussion,bass, sax etc. I was already experimenting making music with live dj’s and spoken word artists on my curated nights at a club called “save the robots”.

I started Wax Poetic in 1998 at a time when I was really in the cross roads of jazz and what was going on in the UK at the time, Portishead, drum n’bass, Massive Attack etc. Much of that better, really and truly, is thanks to you.Wax Poetic is the first band i had besides my early jazz trios and quartets etc. We do our best, but know we can always do better. We want to be fair, to be good, and to be grateful. We work closely with the Bali wing of the WP family in both refining our designs, and in building aesthetic sensibility based not only on concept, but also on construction, and shared content.Waxing Poetic believes in community–not just ours, but the overall global adventure version of community. Our Bali artisans are paid several times more than minimum wage, and treated with respect, dignity, and most importantly, gratitude. Somehow we were blessed to have them join forces with us. These incredible people devote themselves and their lives to beauty, both in action and intent. If we can make things to share, to pass in between, we can do more than we ever hoped – and then some.Our jewelry is fabricated by an incredible batch of Balinese craftspersons, truly part of our extended ‘family’. There is a way to write the lines in between all of us, and in our own small way, we want to make links. Adventure and routine are strange, and sometimes lovely, cousins.

We make things we love, and hope you like them too.We believe that faith, risk, hope, and joy are inextricably bound, and never mutually exclusive. Waxing Poetic jewelry, charms, objects, candles, housewares, and general amusements come to you from Carpinteria, California, by way of designer Patti Pagliei Simpson, her intimate coterie of friends and family (sisters in particular): like-minded artists, dreamers, adventurers, and raconteurs.

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