This is a demo version of WeSee, one of the tracks we're working on for our upcoming album. The track was recorded by us in our rehearsal space and more of these types of preproduction demo versions of other new songs will be released through SoundCloud over the next few months. So keep your eyes (and ears) OPEN!

We're out of touch with our culture
I guess we better get our own
Stay out of reach from the vultures
leave no trace were we have flown

Don't give a fuck about them vampires
Stakes to high for us to care
Keep dancing round the campfires
Connecting consciousness by air

And we walked to an island in the space of our dreams
and now we're busy feeding the flames at the base of it's bridge

Unite or die.

Shed all that hate and open up your eyes
Just keep your back straight
And walk right through the fire
Shed all that hate and open up your eyes
Just keep your back straight
And walk right through the fire

WeSee eyes open
Knowing now is bliss
We see you hopin'
To be a part of this

This ain't camo
This ain't warpaint
These are true colors worn with pride on my face

Unite or die now!

WeSee (EyesOPEN) [PreProdDemo]

"WeSee" is the debut single from pop-culture collective creators W.A.F. With an epic rock ambition driven by a DIY garageband ethos, "WeSee" sounds like the W.A.F declaration of independence. Sung, shouted and chanted on top of big drums, the track sends determined pulses of reverberation across a desolate future landscape. The truly unique voice of the bands singer delivers the first line of the lyrics "We're out of touch with our culture, I guess we better get our own", making a bold statement that is immediately enforced by an atmospheric slide guitar. When the chorus hits it is clear that surrender is the only option just as what sounds like the entire band declares that it's time to "unite or die now". "WeSee" will open eyes and ears everywhere to the W.A.F collective and their innovative cross-platform story "The Roaring", which includes years worth of planned music, comics, novels and video material.

The single "WeSee" was recorded during a one day session in April 2014 in Stockholm's X-Level studios and later mixed by renowned swedish producer Måns Lundberg at Decibel Studios. It will be officially released on the 30th of October with a special premiere taking place at the first ever Comic Con Stockholm along with the reveal of comic book one-shot "WeSee: No Man Is An Island".

WeSee

Me and my brothers
we were raised by wolfs
always kickin' up dust
just like we were taught to do

and me and my sisters
went "awouuuoh"
huntin' old troubles
through a wilderness born anew

and we crossed that Rubicon
not batting an eye
got up on the other side
kicks still dry
and I really feel that we've changed this time
I really feel that we'll matter somehow

we got those new roots
we got those new roots
we walk
in between the raindrops
and we got those new roots
we got those new roots
we found thoughts
louder than your gunshots
and this new air we breath
's got us seeing things
it is in our dreams
it is in our dreams
and this new air we breath
's got us seeing things
reality's seeping in

I know there ain’t much light round these parts
except the fluorescence deep in our hearts 
Glimpses of heaven, glowing lights in the dark
haunting our retinae the shape of a spark
it went off like a shot, left our visions all marked
As the past and the present was instantly lost 
and the future became everything that we’ve got
When the future’s become everything that we’re not
And just like a concrete sky makes you look for holes through which you can see the stars
We’ve started to look for what we might become since we’ve been deprived of what we are

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New Roots Demo

New Roots

Spirit Walk is the first track off The Great Escapees mixtape "Out of the Woodwork".

Spirit Walk (Extended version)

This is Dechimneyation taken from Part 2: "Animals" of The Great Escapees mixtape "Out of the Woodwork".

Dechimneyation

This is Animal In Man taken from Part 2: "Animals" of The Great Escapees mixtape "Out of the Woodwork".

Animal In Man

This is Outlaw taken from Part 2: "Animals" of The Great Escapees mixtape "Out of the Woodwork".

Outlaw!

This is The Hit (Online edit) taken from Part 2: "Animals" of The Great Escapees mixtape "Out of the Woodwork".

The Hit (Online edit)

Every day is a step away
from all those days I've slept away
But you still say 
I've got nothing to show
That I don't put in the hours
and I ain't got the soul

And all that time is on my mind
It'll be mine by the end of the line
But you still sigh
like I'm out of my head
when I'm cooped up inside it
Fighting to get out of it

I put a needle to my skin
to hear the melodies within
And they come soaring through
And now I've got a song for you

And I'm gonna write a song
that's a lifetime long
And I'll bleed the ink
and scream the notes
And I'll push the envelope
wherever I go

And I'll write a song
That's a lifetime long
And let it go on and on and on


When I don't express myself
I start fires in my holding cell
and when I'm under the spell
it burns like hell


Lifetime Song

Check out our website (http://thegreatescapees.com) for more on our music and comicbook.This is the W.A.F edit of Spirit Walk by The Great Escapees, this version is used in the video found here: http://vimeo.com/53181236 and here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JBeXMSE0Rw&feature=plcp

Spirit Walk (W.A.F! Edit)

We are a pop-culture tribe, all friends and family. Some of us have known each other and played together always, eventually expanding from videogames and action figures to instruments. Others have joined our ranks later on when given the opportunity. Almost all of us are from the southern suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden, which is evident to some extent in the way we do things and the songs and stories we write. For instance we're DIY to the point of obnoxiousness, and we've come to accept the dichotomy of inside/outside Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft as our favorite subject.
In other words: We're punk as fuck.

We're also the creative core of Bandar-log W.A.F, our extended tribe and circle of continuous collaborators. As this group we've initiated "The Roaring Project", an attempt at a long-running, epic story told through various pop-culture media, with the band's songs as centerpieces to a vast and imaginative original storyline targeted at an audience longing for immersive high quality material. In other words: We're not a band.

The Roaring is what we wan't to do, a story we want to tell in forms we want to create. It is as much about us and our will to purvey it to you, as it is about the world and how we perceive it. The Roaring is a story that is as relentless and determined as it is bold and loud - and you will hear it.


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