Empire of the Ants / While We Sleep
(Tin Raven / J. Fiteni)

Empire of the Ants is a new project collaboration between Tin Raven and Jody Fiteni who have combined forces and created a fresh new sound.

Tin Raven - Guitar, Bass, Piano, Keyboards, Arrangement, Production.
Jody Fiteni - Lyrics, Vocals.

With special thanks to Rob Morrison at Renegade Studios
for recording Jody's vocals and cleaning them up for Tin Raven's production. Much appreciated as always. 

http://myspace.com/tinraven / http://www.renegademalta.com
Recorded & Produced April 2013.

While We Sleep

Empire of the Ants / While We Sleep
(Tin Raven / J. Fiteni)

Video at: https://youtu.be/9Fau8dUyzXY
Website: www.eota.rocks/

Empire of the Ants is a new project collaboration between Tin Raven and Jody Fiteni who have combined forces and created a fresh new sound.

Tin Raven - Guitar, Bass, Piano, Keyboards, Arrangement, Production.
Jody Fiteni - Lyrics, Vocals.

With special thanks to Rob Morrison at Renegade Studios
for recording Jody's vocals and cleaning them up for Tin Raven's production. Much appreciated as always.

myspace.com/tinraven / www.renegademalta.com
Recorded & Produced April 2013.

EMPIRE OF THE ANTS - While we sleep

Empire of the Ants - Stay With Me

Video at: https://youtu.be/qq77ajKZ-z4
Website: www.eota.rocks/

Music produced, performed, arranged and recorded by Tin Raven.
Lyrics & vocals by Jody Fiteni
Vocals recorded by Rob Morrison at Renegade Studios / www.renegademalta.com

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_O8CT1DqlCFMPR1Ry2-OKQ

EMPIRE OF THE ANTS - Stay With Me

Empire of the Ants / Look My Way

Video at: https://youtu.be/CmQPAbApEIw
Website: www.eota.rocks/

Music performed, recorded, produced & mixed - Tin Raven
Lyrics & Vocals - Jody Fiteni

Special thanks to Rob Morrison at Renegade Studios for recording
and mixing Jody's vocal tracks. www.renegademalta.com

Look My Way (Tin Raven / J. Fiteni)

Like a thief in a cathedral - picking at the bones
Got a pocketful of trinkets - but no ticket home

Headin' for your dark door - these shadows grow
Got a headful of dreamin' - and a tyrant to overthrow 

Tell me what's the difference - a hunger that must be fed
We could make this world a better place - with a needle and thread

Like a beggar at a banquet - bounty beyond belief
We could savour every moment - just the way it's meant to be 

Look my way
Look my way
Took it all - Gave it all away...

Look my way
Look my way
Took it all - Gave it all away...

Like a church without a steeple - sticks and stones
We could hide between the lines - or in the undertones

Loving the chameleon - with that old world charm
Got a distant memory recall - a distorted false alarm 

There's a finger on the trigger - and a victim in his sights
We could make this world a better place - just don't give up the fight

It's not about achieving things - bigger than we can love
Oh how the mighty fallen - leave footprints in the dust

Look my way
Look my way
Took it all - Gave it all away...

Look my way
Look my way
Let's take this fear - wrap it up in chains... 

Recorded December 2013.

EMPIRE OF THE ANTS - Look My Way

Empire of the Ants / Utopia
(Tin Raven / J. Fiteni)

Video at: https://youtu.be/kbuWzJdYz1g
Website: www.eota.rocks/

Empire of the Ants is a project collaboration between Tin Raven and Jody Fiteni who have combined forces and created a fresh new sound.

Tin Raven - Guitar, Bass,  Arrangement. 
Jody Fiteni - Lyrics, Vocals.

Produced by Tin Raven and Rob Morrison

With special thanks to Rob Morrison at Renegade Studios
for recording Jody's vocals and cleaning them up for Tin Raven's production. Much appreciated as always.

myspace.com/tinraven / www.renegademalta.com
Recorded & Produced March 2014

Video at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhjL8W7wse0

EMPIRE OF THE ANTS - Utopia

Empire of the Ants - A Thousand Times A Day

Video at: https://youtu.be/Y166XfEchOY
Website: www.eota.rocks/

Song written, arranged, performed and composed by Tin Raven
Vocals: Jody Fiteni

Jody's vocals recorded by Rob Morrison at Renegade Studios October 2013.

EMPIRE OF THE ANTS - A Thousand Times A Day

Empire of the Ants - Small Hours (Speed Dreaming Mix)

Video at: https://youtu.be/Vkd_FGLW41E
Website: www.eota.rocks/


Written, performed, recorded, produced and remixed by Tin Raven
Vocals & Lyrics by Jody Fiteni

EMPIRE OF THE ANTS - Small Hours Remix

Empire of the Ants - Feathers

Video at: https://youtu.be/VBa60WCeMrQ
Website: https://www.eota.rocks/

Music composed, performed, recorded & arranged by Tin Raven.
Lyrics and vocals by Jody Fiteni.

Special thanks to Rob Morrison at Renegade Studios
for recording and editing vocals to 'Feathers' - recorded January 2014. http://www.renegademalta.com

Feathers (Tin Raven / J. Fiteni)

Inspired by the teachings of Hilarion and The Mother (Mater Dei)

EMPIRE OF THE ANTS - Feathers

Video at: https://youtu.be/jXpEjgipJzE
Website: https://www.eota.rocks/

EOTA - What You Mean to Me

Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQWUCvfZUHk

Who watches the watchers? Who watches us? Who watches them? Who watches the watchmen?
– the compelling curiosity and intrigues of what and who are behind the powers that be cuts across
man-made borders and questions the validity and relevance of the status quo. How do Presidents and the 'political elite'
get elected without a majority and Who do they truly represent? Truth and justice seem multi-dimensional and owned
by self-interest, corruption, profiteering, blackmail and international mafia rings. Scaremongering and fear is the name of the game.

The song questions the closed-minded private interests and intent of corporate crime and political cover-ups.
Investigative Journalists are murdered and silenced for knowing too much and exposing international dirty money laundering
schemes that seem protected by politicians and governments, like vultures, picking on the bones of failed states.

It’s not about what you know - it’s about who you know, as entire national systems can be entrapped in the downward spiral of dark
and corrupt Governments and their self-preservation agenda. Who’s watching whom? and how does information become a valuable commodity
to kill for? to die for? to hide and to blackmail with? We’ll probably never know. Webs of deceit over webs of political gerrymandering
and capitalising on mass ignorance continually transformed into filthy lucre and sky-scrapping profits for the sharks.

Can all this be said in a 3.5 minute song? Probably not - but that’s the artful thing about Empire of the Ants - they take the jaw-dropping complexity
of it all and simplify it into digestible but acquired taste delicious morsels. Love it or hate it, you just can’t ignore it, because the songs say something
about us as individuals in an increasingly globalised and shrinking world. Dark side? EOTA sings about it from the outside. From the light.

The Watchmen is a playful smile at the madness of a species hell-bent on self destructive short-sighted profiteering schemes
and shoves two fingers up in the face of political impunity, mafia style. Truth and Justice? How much are you willing to pay for it?

EOTA - The Watchmen (final Cut)

Black n Blue Tuesday (Industrial Virus Remix)
Written by Jody Fiteni and Tin Raven
Vocals by Opus Raven
Additional Vocals Jody Fiteni
Remix by Tin Raven

Black N Blue Tuesday (Industrial Virus Remix) Featuring Opus Raven

Tin Raven & Jody Fiteni collaborate on a sound
which is refreshingly sincere and untethered by convention.

Songwriter, musician and producer Tin Raven is no newcomer to the world of original songwriting, recording and performing and has been writing music of one kind or another since he was a teenager.

Born and raised in West London, Tin spent his tentative years living under Heathrow’s flight path but now lives in a field in Shropshire, where only his sheep, chickens and turkeys complain about the noise. He has a back catalogue well worth investigation.

Lead singer and lyricist Jody Fiteni was frontman for West London bands The Switch, The Mustard Seeds and recording project Hunkpapa in the ‘90s – relocating to the Mediterranean island of Malta to set up home and establish a creative design boutique.

Influences have always been eclectic bands like The Cure, The The, Bauhaus, Jesus and Mary Chain, John Martyn, Dead Can Dance, New Model Army and The Damned amongst too many other originally ‘alternative’ bands to mention. 

Jody and Tin are currently producing original music under the banner ‘Empire of the Ants’ from their respective (and distant) corners of the world – after a mutual appreciation of their individual You Tube channel catalogues.

If they can produce inspired tunes like these whilst living in different countries, just imagine what’s to come when they eventually (and hopefully) work in the same room! 

Empire of the Ants

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