Post-Echo Releases Full Drift Package

 

I’ve posted already about the Post-Echo collective’s ambitious “Drift” project, which pairs fourteen tracks from their musical artists with a graphic Sci-Fi novella/comic book. The songs have been leaking out at the rate of one per day this month, and today the visual component is available for viewing on the Post-Echo site. As intriguing as the music has been, in combination with the graphics and storyline it is even more integral to the concept. Try this–on the Drift page there is a player with all the songs included, click ‘play’ on the first song as you click on the first page of the graphic content. Read slowly and take time to soak in the deep, dark colors and uncanny depth of field in the two-dimensional images. It’s not quite “Dark Side of the Moon” synched to “The Wizard of Oz” but there are more than a few times that the music is a fitting accompaniment to the action on the page. It’s not that long of a story; I only made it through the 6th or 7th song before I was finished reading, so I read it twice, and those musical/graphical connections continued to pop up. Kudos to Post-Echo and their artists, both visual, literary, and musical, for such a challenging and ultimately rewarding piece of multimedia. To see and hear for yourself, check it out here: DRIFT (::)::(::)::

Video of the Week: Aesop Rock, “Cycles to Gehenna”

Intelligent hip-hop has no more accomplished practitioner than Aesop Rock, he of the ten-cent words and acidic lyrical flow. I’m not entirely sure what his new single “Cycles to Gehenna” is about, but it possesses his usual sonic immediacy along with a beautifully shot video featuring some seriously dark ballerina action:

 

Video of the Week: “Close Enough”, from the War Poets

War Poets is a Minneapolis, Minnesota band whose album doesn’t come out until October, but they just released a very interesting video for the song “Close Enough.” The clip features two couples in the kind of everyday settings one might find themselves in during those days leading up to getting married; the catch is that the couples are both same-sex relationships. Depending on your opinions on the political and religious debate surrounding the issue of marriage equality, this might be an unsettling thing to witness, but my guess is that it’s pretty close to normal for many same-sex couples–or at least it would be close if the scenes at the end of the video were legal in more than a few states.

Oh, and the song itself, cowritten with producer Kevin Bowe, is a decent mid-tempo rootsy rocker with a universal message of its own.

 

Drifting Into Multi-Channel Art with Post-Echo

Those crazy Post-Echo folks are at it again, using multiple avenues of expression to present a multifaceted artistic vision they’re calling Drift.

At its most basic, Drift is a graphic novella with what appears from a promo video clip to be a dark, chilling, time and space related sci-fi theme, illustrated by Andrea Miller of Omnomable Visions.

What the Post-Echo team has done differently, however, is pair the printed page with an audio soundtrack from fourteen recording artists associated with Post-Echo, including Cancellieri, People Person, Koda, Arrange, Glass Vaults, Hello Handshake, Jason F. Stroud, Pan, Forces of a Street, Vyie, Ramphastos, The Radar Cinema, Storms Ov Jupiter, and Roomdance, . To make things interesting they have begun releasing the songs one at a time, one each day until the August 14th release of the full project. You’ll have to check their website for the rest of the two week period of releases, but I’ve included a quick link below to the ones already out:

Click here for the first two songs released via Soundcloud 

Watch the promo video below: