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It was after hearing Katie Gately's remix of Schemawound back in February - incredibly one of the first pieces of music that she had made - that we immediately began hassling her to do a tape for us.

The result is Pipes, a piece that is both concise and ambitious. A 22nd Century pop song made out of nothing but the massed tones of the human voice, so complex that it took six painstaking months to assemble, but dropkicks the seratonin-releasing pleasure centres of the brain like the most immediate and narcotic of pop hits.

Influenced by Arthur Russell and Gregorian chant, Pipes is a kind of future choral music. In its soundworld, synthesizers have been superseded by lungs, and soundscapes are no longer programmed, but can be projected into the air at the speed of thought.

If you loved Petra Haden's classic 2005 acapella reading of The Who Sell Out, but thought it would be loads better without all The Who bits, then you'll love this. If you love pop music, but hate dumb lyrics, then this is for you. If you've ever felt a surge of energy from the sound of another human singing - whether it's opera or death metal - then this is a substation. This electric is natural and now.

Disclaimer: NO INSTRUMENTS WERE USED IN THE MAKING OF THIS RECORDING.

Praise for Katie Gately:

"You can hear that escalation in Gately's work as you can in Parmegiani's 1990s-onwards work or in Oswald's Plexure and Grayfolded." - Simon Reynolds

"Fantastic bionic structures. Rhythms bob beneath, but are switched around intuitively and with a sense of fun... vocals are layered and stepped up and down in bold, jarring brushstrokes." - The Wire

"...the sound of deconstruction... hinting at pop only to take delight in crumbling from within. Countless timbres and textures jostle within her tracks, either crammed together in a sonic maelstrom, or separated by what feel like blasts of chilled air." - Resident Advisor

“With pure, ethereal vocals poured over an industrial and sluggish beat... sounds like Gately found the hidden door to the intersection of light and shadow, planting her flag solidly at its nexus.” - XLR8R

“On her self-titled debut EP, Katie Gately weaves silky pop vocals and field recordings processed beyond all recognition into cold, abrasive soundscapes.” - FACT Magazine

“Pop music that can’t sit still, is exploding with ideas. Sometimes it sounds overloaded with thoughts, which find literal expression in Katie’s dense Disco Inferno-like lattices of words. But then on other tracks her vocals pull back and space out, disassociating from the rhythms and finding unlikely companions in choirs of pitch-shifted and manipulated vocals – her voice made into marching, chirruping armies of munchkins, automatons, Substance D-stretched friend-apparitions.” - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

"'Pipes' is a vocals-only track, a wonderful piece of ethereal breathing and crystal Pop constructed in what sound like infinite layers of dazzling landscapes, her stunning voice invading each corner of the music." - The 405

"Leftfield Katie Gately creates a weird discordant form of avant-garde Pop that keeps us coming back for more. There’s something within its ever-changing skin that keeps us listening, keeps us guessing and keeps us attempting to unravel the songs and their bewildering construction." - Bowlegs

"Falling somewhere between the icy, high resolution electronic experiments of Holly Herndon and the sunkissed pop of Julia Holter, Gately’s self-titled debut sees her combine her own heavily treated vocals amidst an occasionally bewildering array of sample-based scrapes, cracks and drones that somehow shape themselves into an avant-garde form of pop music, manifesting itself as “Fractured vocalisations, bittersweet harmonies, freaked alien voices all living, breathing in deep fried motherboards of acute computer programming and field sound.” - Juno Plus


blue eight: Katie Gately - Pipes

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Brian Marquis' debut album Blood & Spirits comes out May 13th on Equal Vision Records! Catch him on the Vans Warped Tour Acoustic Basement Stage this summer and the Acoustic Basement Tour in the UK April 20-30. 
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This is just a taster! 
Full tracks will be available to download from iTunes and license soon.

Composed/ produced by Dan Cullen - soundcloud.com/dan-cullen
Strings and solo cello arranged/ performed by Deryn Cullen

Cinematic Drama and Passion

Red Sands

Red Sands (composed by Dan Cullen, feat. Deryn Cullen)

http://rapgenius.com/Wild-rose-chance-only-partly-broken-lyrics

[Verse 1]
Here we go, Pierre Trudeau, Montreal airport
ᒋᔖᔨᔨᐆ sipping chai, you know that I care for it
I'm gonna get on that plane, I'm gonna subdue that pain
I'm gonna get back to the ocean, salt wells up inside my veins
Well up in an aeroplane, looking down on hills and plains
Roads they run through forests like some wasted giant's crooked veins
And arteries, "Artillery" in my headphones, I'm just meat on dead bones
Were it not for the hottie next to my body, I'd be rocking headstone
And when I read the comments on the Facebook and the online fora
It's enough to make me wanna get on-flight to Bora Bora
I say, "Now I can run, lay down in the sun"
Weighed down like a ton, ate cow on a bun
Cos I'm from the agricultural heart of the multicultural art called Canada
But these vultures are smart when they pannin' ya
And it's hard to halt yourself when they handin' ya
Trinkets full of gold to appeal to the man in ya, fannin' ya, then cannin' ya
Ya walked, then ya ran an' ya

[Hook 1]
Ran too far to tell
Stumbled and you fell
Into the cavern mouth of your special breed of hell
Where you’re waiting for the day
That they can break away
And it doesn’t even matter if you tell them you can pay
Because regardless of the cost
Your little ones are lost
Another non-existent phone call, while your hair mingles with moss
And you’re screaming in your soul
In that nigrescent hole
Deaf ears are all that catches protest: “I can pay the toll”

[Verse 2]
But... yes! I love it, I'm back in the land of the seagull
Yes! Covet it like it's the hand of Smeagol
This is my precious, pretty nets to enmesh us
Makes me wanna coat myself in glitter, gaudy stuff like Ke$ha's
Gotti stuff like Jay Z, by the waves I'm chillin', lazy
Maritimes been on my merry mind, yeah, lately I've been fucking crazy
For Adirondacks over them them wrong tracks, it's like Adderall to me
You add it all up 'bout your Rockies, rockin' these wings to the sea!

[Hook 2]
Swim in azure waves
Right out of the cave
Feel the dappled sunlight banish misery of slaves
And the cool wind soothe the burns
Animates ash in the urns
Depression dissipates, and tell it, “Have to wait your turn”
With your family alongside
Feel the gravity of tides
And the salt is lighter in your blood, feel it move inside
Dysphoria recedes
Diaspora it bleeds
We’re home and we are happy, not a single care or need

[Bridge]
I know we’ve got problems
But if you’re honest, so does everywhere else
We’re only partly broken
More than I can say for myself...

[Hook 3]
I know that you’re peeved
You think you wanna leave
But I’ve seen the vanquished wasteland that I wear upon my sleeves
I love it where I am
It’s made me a better man
No serious complaints about it, it’s a glorious land
But you only have one home
And no matter where you roam
Bon Jovi wrote a song about it, "Who says, who says...?"
That you can’t wield your clout?
Find solution to your pout?
When you talk about destruction, you know you can count me out

[Outro]
Count me out
Count me out
Count me out
Count me out

Only Partly Broken

Traditional Pow Wow music remixed with Dubstep

Electric pow wow drum

Max a.k.a. Wild Rose Chance is currently recording his debut album. In the meantime... check out his demos. They're pretty good!

Only Partly Broken

wildrosechance

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