Patrick Watson: Influences

For Patrick Watson, moments of space and silence can have just as much force as words and sounds. But with that sense of quiet precision comes great passion, too. It's a combination that's true of much of the music in his richly diverse palette, whether it's Arvo Pärt's solemn minimalism, D'Angelo's bare-bones neo-soul, the perfectly spare folk of Nick Drake or John Coltrane at his most ecstatic.