Seventeen Evergreen
'Music is the Wine'
(Lucky015)
Released:29.10.07
After a broad-based
critical approval for both their debut album, 'Life Embarrasses Me On Planet
Earth' (Aug’07) and debut UK live and radio session dates (Jun’07) Lucky
Number's super San Franciscans, Seventeen Evergreen, release the much
anticipated lead single, 'Music Is The Wine.'
Seventeen Evergreen's chief-protagonists Caleb Pate and Nephi Evans, are both
singers, multi-instrumentalists, & most importantly, storytellers of
imagination and hyper-reality. "Music is the wine, to fill my cup of
sadness, helping to forget a love electrocuted", is the simple
eloquent message offered here, emphasizing the emotionally-healing quality that
music holds for so many of us. "The songs of love that live, beyond the
instruments, behind your eyes and growing, gradually pull...[you]...in",
to a stronger place, of course! It's a sexy place too, adopting 'Moon Safari’s
sultriness as if played by an acutely amorous band of space-funkers. This is
true to The Independent's reading of Seventeen Evergreen's album, its' "...other-worldliness
recalls Midlake only with the time-machine set for the future rather than the
past."
Further fortifying the aphrodisiac funk is the most chic of Parisians, Joakim. His remix comes on like the super-slinky ’Space-Disco’ sister to Taana Gardner's
classic Heartbeat', a groove of dancefloor lust you can imagine both
Grandmaster Flash & Larry Levan championing as their own. It's a minimal
but bumpin' breakbeat that feels like it's on the cusp of a new dance genre,
cutting a fresh soulful edge to the track alongside the reverberations of a
startling sonic mix of rasping keyboard trills & effects that Joakim rocks
so well!
In addition we hear
surely a new expression of 'dubstep' with Bi-Polar Men's mix of album
track 'Ensoniq', providing an irresistible urgency to the deep bass tones we're
used to from the genre. Leading scenester Skream has already made this
mix a stalwart of his international dj sets and featured it on his recent Radio
1 'Essential Mix'.
Seventeen Evergreen's vision goes way beyond the sonic of course. Following
their association with supreme video-groundbreakers Encyclopedia Pictura the
band are now currently in LA directing their own storyboard. As lead singer
Caleb puts it he expects them to be "waylaid by the bling-fest, but
reminded that life is magic." The result will surely extend the
picture book beauty of their previous promo activity, including gravity-defying
romps in Marin County, & somersaults in space whilst performing!
So once more Seventeen Evergreen are continuing to glide eyes wide-open along
life’s many paths, savouring the manna of every one of their visionary details.
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