Sailor's Dream

Louis Tillett's journey to a faraway shore

Louis Tillet always seemed to be sailing somewhere. His songs, his voice, the sound of his keyboards manifesting a sea journey at night: sometimes stormy, sometimes wild, sometimes dream-like.

Funnily enough his name was only one letter away from ‘tiller’ (the helmsman of a boat). As his career developed you definitely felt he had kinship with Charon, t…