Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" mashed up with Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence"

Kate Bush X Depeche Mode - Running Up That Hill X Enjoy The Silence [Deegan Poores Remix]

Space Age Love Song (A Flock Of Seagulls cover)

I'll Never

Flying To Mars

Give 'em What They Want

Cozumel came from a drum loop I made with some spacey echoes. I then added the buzzing organ with the bass line. From here I added more textures, and came upon a sound influenced by my trips to the Caribbean in high school. On these trips, I would jam with local musicians and soak in the sounds around me. I would also travel around and see the natural beauty that is largely untouched on many of the islands in the Caribbean. These experiences came through in the development of this piece.

Cozumel

Hungry came from a song writing contest with my roommates, where we randomly generated a word to write a song around. The word for the first week was hungry. When it came time to pick who won, I was the only one who had written one, so my roommates picked me to win "by default". I wanted to capture the anguish of hunger that one heres about in the news and food insecurity. To capture this, I made a bed of sound with loops in different tempos from different instruments where the foundation of the piece is constantly changing and never stable. On top of this, I added singing where I attempted to translate raw feelings of pain not reduced by the complexities of language.

Hungry

Down For Action is my tribute to the works of DFA Records and Arthur Russel. I had gotten very into each of their works, and made this track when I paused DFA Records Compilation #2 midway through. It is built on a driving disco groove and dubby trumpet loop reminiscent of Russel's early works with Dinosaur L and Loose Joints. From here I added a stabbing bass line, layers of percussion, and electronic elements as an homage to DFA.

First Year 2017-2018

Down For Action

Posters developed from a simple piano line that is progressively expanded upon with echoes at different speeds. The effect this creates is that the original piano loop is formed into new rhythms and melodies, and new overtones emerge from the noise. This piece is largely influenced by the minimalist piano works and "music with repetitive structures" of Philip Glass. I created this piece in my room, where I have posters of artists I love like The Replacements and Radkey hanging on the walls. I was staring at these posters while developing the track and getting lost in the wash of sound that comes from new layers. The title is a tribute to this and the space of creativity I find in my room.

Posters

In 2017, I went on a mission trip with a youth church orchestra I was a member of. We went to Minneapolis and volunteered at a church (that Prince had bought before he died and was going to convert into a night club) that hosted dinners for the homeless and gave a sermon to them afterwards. The place had a very eerie feel, and the people who ran the place also gave off a very strange vibe. It was not until after we had performed before the sermon that we realized it was a pentecostal church and we were there during the weekend of the Pentecost. The sermon was very odd, where the preacher gave a sermon about his experience of going to the hospital, and then returning home to have a vision. In this vision, he was in God's kingdom with a choir of angel and golden trees and roads. He was very passionate, but this passion occasionally veered into territories of delusion and madness. Pentecost developed from recordings I took on my phone of his sermon, and created a sound that channels the feelings of fear and uneasiness I experienced in the church. The framing of the dialogue throughout the piece also demonstrates my thoughts on and experiences with organized religion and how they use visions of grandeur to manipulate people into a way of thinking that inhibits free thinking.

Pentecost

Here is my new single from my upcoming project, hope you enjoy!

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Here's my new single, the project will hopefully be out sometime this summer. Enjoy!

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singer/songwriter/producer/multi-instrumentalist from lawrence, ks

guitar for Paul Jesse and Dalima Kapten, bass/harmonica for Virga

Deegan Poores

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