remember a few weeks ago i posted a rather fine sparkly track by the mysterious bright star catalogue ?
well, let the mystery dissipate.
first up, for those interested, there is a vimeo channel through which you can hear more of the bands style.
sultry fem vox seems to be a main feature on evidence from the eight tracks posted, as does the bands obvious love of analogue synths.
for each track posted, the “video” consists of the track title displayed in a black-n-white text and little else.
perfection.
as to the people behind the band ?
well, i have been sent the following insight :
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the bright star catalogue developed from various projects that producer elfed, multi-instrumentalist bear and singer ladyjk worked on together during 2006-2009.
a shared obsession with electronic music suggested a great basis for an exciting, experimental collaboration and so, surrounded by a collection of analogue synths, noise generators and air-con droids at their warehouse studio in north london, they set to work recording sci-fi soundtracks for imaginary films.
the bsc recording sessions of summer/autumn ’09 were based on a strict manifesto that prohibited the use of digital and ‘plug-in’ keyboards and avoided the use of cut & paste sequencing techniques in favour of hand played parts and manually triggered arpeggios, influenced by music of the radiophonic workshop and john carpenter.
after a short break to allow time for individual collaborations and solo projects, the bsc have scheduled studio time during summer 2010 to develop new material and a much anticipated live dimension, which will see the studio project take to the stage for the first time!
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so now you know.
more detail : here – – vimeo channel