"BC Bogey, otherwise known as VOICE IN THE ATTIC, has indeed fulfilled his artistic vision of humanizing music. His craft goes beyond simple words and melodies. There is honest emotion tied to his music that reaches the depths of the human condition and brings a spark of life and of hope" (Rhonda Readence)


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"The unique combination of all BC's gifts of music, poetry and intelligence developed into an amazing artist whose voice, lyrics and style is honest, fresh, complex and absolutely brilliant" (Diana Olson)

"Expressive, sensitive, and heartfelt" (Mike DeGagne)

"Bogey has the voice of a lion" (Alec Cunningham)


Below are two excerpts from recent interviews in which BC talks about Ablaze:

(Excerpt 1)
Music Now Magazine: What song are you currently promoting?

Voice In The Attic: One of the new songs, Ablaze, will be made available in two different mix versions. The song came about when I reread Alice in Wonderland and thought that the experience of tumbling down the rabbit hole really is an initiation into adulthood. In my version, this process of initiation turns into an invocation of the Greek god of ecstasy, Dionysus. One version of Ablaze features female backing vocals which gives the song a dreamy, wistful quality. It really is a love song. As on Shark Rider, I am the producer but as before I have collaborated with a studio in Los Angeles on the rerecording of some of the instrument tracks and the mixing. The mastering was done by Grammy winner Adam Ryan (Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters) at Gateway Mastering in Portland, Maine.

Music Now: What inspires your music?

Voice In The Attic: My own experience as well as things I read about or see in films or the news media. Often, fact is intermingled with fiction throughout my work. Storytelling is an important aspect for me. I'm an avid reader and my interests range from classical mythology through Philip Roth to scientific and philosophical treatises.

(Excerpt 2)
Skope Magazine: You have a classic rock voice and look like Jim Morrison as an example. Tell me how you got into music and about your cds and what you're working on now?

Voice In The Attic: Thanks, I take that as a compliment. Let me begin by answering the last part of your threefold question. I'm currently working on two new songs that will be released as singles at the beginning of next year. One is called Over, the other one Ablaze. Maybe Morrison is a good example to further illustrate my point on song writing and storytelling. One source of inspiration for me is classical mythology, as it was for Jim, and in Ablaze it mingles with personal observations and snippets of Alice in Wonderland. The lyrics of the first verse goes, "I'm tumbling down another rabbit hole / They say that pride comes before the fall / What did I win? Less than I lost / So let it spin and let us count the cost" before it turns into a Dionysian love chant in the chorus: "You and me / We'll set the world on fire / You and me / Ablaze with desire". The last verse finally invokes the god of wine and ecstasy when it urges the listener "to feast / On Dionysus' heart". I would call the song's mood 'conspiratorial': it's a romantic little love tale urging listeners to transgress the boundaries set by society. It's about anti-compliance, and maybe also about anti-complacency: be radically true to yourself, follow your primal instincts and do what you feel is right.
Which brings me to the first part of your question, how did I get into music. I was born too late to be part of the movement toward social equality and liberation which was the 60s and early 70s that shaped the sound of bands like The Doors and was shaped by those artists' bravery and experimentation in turn. Yet I was born in the mid-70s and my parents were still genuine hippies at the time. Us kids were encouraged to try out every musical instrument we wanted and though I never learned to read lead sheets, I discovered my environment acoustically. Later I did learn to read and write sheet music but found the technique distracting and abandoned it. Music comes through the ear. It isn't always easy for me when working with musicians who are not as 'instinctual' and wish to strictly keep to their rule books.
About my recordings, one example to illustrate my point about 70s-style experimentation off the beaten path would be that for Shark Rider I tuned down my guitar strings to what I later learned was a modification of 'Drop B' tuning. I'd had no idea, I was simply following my ears until it sounded right and complemented the mood of the lyrics.

Skope: Did you write all your own lyrics? Tell me about a little about yourself and your life and hopes.

Voice In The Attic: Yes, I write all my own lyrics and this aspect is very important to me. Although I'm not a political activist I have what is termed a 'didactic intention' in my art. You can only succeed in getting your message across if you believe that someone will be listening at the other end of the line and that sending musical and textual messages makes sense at all. Call me a hopeless romantic, but I believe that music can help make this world a better place. It is a universal language that can be understood by people all over the globe. And there are many pressing problems that need our intercultural awareness more than ever. Sometimes I fear we're losing all that our parents fought for. We're taking too much for granted: liberty, equality, civil rights, a functioning global ecology. The prevailing sense of cynicism in the West is no help and I'm trying to oppose it in my own way, as can be seen in the Golden video.