Debut record from Vanessa Bley, lead singer of Beast Patrol and Twin Danger. The album, titled "Beast Patrol" was released January 3, 2012 and led to the formation of the band, Beast Patrol now including members Robert Granata, Anthony Marchesi and Jake Read-Harber. The album was written, recorded, produced and mixed by Vanessa Bley. 

Music Video's:

"Hit The Breaks" video by Max Gleason
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1RSgsnYZZQ

"Tricks" video by Phil Knott
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f2hP5dwD30

"No Freaking Fracking" video by Vanessa Bley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFY5q3QgQM0

"Into the Grey" video by Vanessa Bley
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E04jjV4x7Y8



Into the Grey

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People have been reinventing Bach for nearly 300 years but there has never been anything quite likePatrick Higgins’ Bachanalia. Equal parts gorgeous and severe, these highly original arrangements of JS Bach prove the endless possibilities contained within the master’s pen. Bachanalia emerges from a dynamic relationship among three main elements: Higgins’ own virtuosic classical guitar playing, stereo electronic processing, and the recording spaces themselves. Truly site-specific, it makes unique use of the extreme and special acoustics of St. Cecilia’s Church in Brooklyn and Future-Past Studios, an upstate New York recording complex housed in a historic Lutheran church. While Bach’s compositions will be familiar to almost everyone, Higgins gives us a mesmerizing glimpse into the future.

Described by The New Yorker as one of the “prime movers of the local avant-garde,” and an “exacting avant-classical guitarist” by Time Out NY, Patrick Higgins is a New York-based composer/performer of experimental music. Higgins has composed works for some of the nation’s leading ensembles, from chamber orchestra works, percussion cycles, and string quartets to smaller ensembles and soloists. He has scored music for television, museum exhibitions, and films both short-form and feature-length. Higgins plays guitar and composes in Zs, hailed by The New York Times as “one of the strongest avant-garde bands in New York.” As a producer and studio owner at Future-Past, Higgins has helped produce records for The National, Josephine Foster, John Zorn and Dither Quartet, Mantra Percussion, Zs, Eric Wubbels and Josh Modney, Ensemble Contemporaneous, Vicky Chow, and many more.

For Bachanalia, Higgins and co-engineer Ben Greenberg worked with a collection of rare vintage Neumann, RCA, and Sennheiser microphones to carefully capture a spatialized natural room reverb. This provided a palate to warp, manipulate, and re-process the sound in precise counterpoint to Bach’s compositions. The end result weaves together live performance and studio composition. The musical arc reaches from light to dark, both in the emotional timbre of the compositions and in the density of the electronic elements. In the final three tracks (“Minuet,” “Chaconne,” “Aria da Capo”), both the experimentation and emotional intensity are pushed to new heights. This is highlighted in the “Chaconne,” Bach’s infamous death mass written after the passing of his first wife, presented here as a 14 minute epic recorded in two continuous takes. While any piece on Bachanalia can stand alone, the album articulates Patrick Higgins’ singular narrative vision from start to finish.

Patrick Higgins "Prelude - Violin Partita No. 3 BWV 1006" - Bachanalia (Telegraph Harp, 10/16)

Vanessa Bley, daughter of late jazz pianist Paul Bley and pioneer video artist Carol Goss, is best known as front woman for the psychedelic, haze-pop band Beast Patrol, noted Band to Watch by Rolling Stone, and the jazz-noir group Twin Danger, described as "The Sound Of Frank Sinatra Meets The Clash" by NPR. Bley co-wrote and produced Twin Danger's self-titled debut album with saxophonist and guitarist Stuart Matthewman, the co-founder of Sade. The album, released by Decca / Universal Classics, went to number one on the iTunes Jazz Chart and received four stars from Downbeat, leading to an interview on NPR’s All Things Considered and shows around the world. In addition to her two bands and solo records, Bley scores film and art installations, including a recent multi-sensorial perfume installation for International Flavors & Fragrances and Sony Arcade. In 2015 Bley edited the audio for the film Eyes of the Moon, which debuted at the Marfa Film Festival. Most recently, Bley relocated to Santa Ynez, CA where she recently completed another solo record entitled, "Life & Death," inspired by the passing of her father and the move from New York City after 14 years, to Los Angeles. The first single, "Sunset Hangover" premiered 11/11. The full album will be available August 3, 2017. 
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Vanessa Bley is a NYC and Los Angeles based singer, composer, producer and musician.  She is daughter of jazz pianist Paul Bley and pioneer video artist Carol Goss. In 2010, Bley founded Space Camp Radio, a weekly, online environmentalist and music radio show out of Bushwick, later to be co-hosted with Anthony Marchesi. In 2010, Bley met Grammy winning producer Stuart Matthewman and the two began writing music together, later to be called Twin Danger. In 2012, Bley formed Space Camp Radio Records and released her solo album entitled, Beast Patrol. Shortly after, Bley started performing with Anthony Marchesi (bass), Robert Granata (guitar) and Dave Burnett (drums). In the summer of 2012 the group recorded a collection of Bley’s older material and self-released Fierce & Grateful under the band name Beast Patrol. Rolling Stone noted the group as a Band to Watch which led to performing at Lollapalooza. In 2014, Beast Patrol released their follow-up EP, Unarm Yourself and Twin Danger signed to Universal Classics. In 2015, the Twin Danger released their debut, self-titled album, which went to number 1 on the iTunes Jazz Chart and received 4 stars from Downbeat, leading to an interview on NPR’s All Things Considered. Twin Danger performs live with six members and has played extensively around NYC with trips to Tokyo, Los Angeles and Austin’s SXSW. In addition to the two bands, Bley scores, produces and mixes for various projects. In 2014, Bley scored a perfume installation with long time collaborator Phil Knott for International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) and Sony Arcade. Most recently, Bley edited the audio for the film Eyes of the Moon, premiering at the Marfa Film Fest 2015. Beast Patrol is set to release their third EP in 2016 and Bley is currently working on a follow up solo album to her 2012 release. Twin Danger is also currently writing a new album.

Into the Grey

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