Pale Blue (Mike Simonetti) streams debut LP with FACT
PALE BLUE (MIKE SIMONETTI) STREAMS DEBUT ALBUM WITH FACT
THE PAST WE LEAVE BEHIND OUT 13TH APRIL 2015 ON 2MR / CAPTURED TRACKS
Next week, Mike Simonetti will release The Past We Leave Behind, his debut album as Pale Blue, his musical collaboration with Elizabeth Wight of Silver Hands. In anticipation of its release, he’s sharing it in its entirety over on FACT right now.
Listen to Pale Blue The Past We Leave Behind via FACT
Pale Blue, referencing the term “Pale Blue Dot,” coined by Carl Sagan to refer to a photograph of planet Earth taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990, was originally conceived around the time that Hurricane Sandy hit New York and came to completion with Simonetti’s severance from Italians’. Thus, many of the tracks that make up The Past… grapple with themes of loss and new beginnings.
The Past… encompasses a myriad of sonic elements, ranging from rhythmic, melodic techno to atmospheric ambient productions, while also incorporating Simonetti’s varied background in noise, drone, and even experimental dream pop. Above it all though, Wight’s vocals remain the focal point, saturating the record with a lush melodic warmth that’s so often missing in the electronic world.
Musically, Pale Blue is a response to modern dance music and its constant fluctuations. It intentionally bears no obvious singles, nor club hits. While Simonetti, Wight’s and Jana Hunter’s (vocals on ‘Dusk in Parts’) remain at its core, Pale Blue’s philosophy is to keep everything open to collaboration. It does not aim to pigeonhole itself into a genre or any new vistas in music, but instead to a unifying sound produced collectively and harmoniously.
The Past We Leave Behind will be released 13th April on 2MR/Captured Tracks.
The Past We Leave Behind Tracklisting
1. The Past We Leave Behind
2. The Scars
3. Distance To The Waves
4. Mia
5. Tougher
6. Myself
7. The Scars (Reprise)
8. Dusk In Parts
9. The Math
10. Rain
11. The Eye
12. Embrace
13. One Last Thing
‘The Math’
‘Dusk In Parts’
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