Storms At Sea, by Storms At Sea (feat. The Telescopes)

Storms At Sea

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	1.	Oh Death 03:33
	2.	Until The End 04:37

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STORMS AT SEA
Featuring The Telescopes

Storms At Sea is a recording project featuring Chris Plavidal of Stumptone and Stephen Lawrie of The Telescopes.

"The music on this record is dedicated to Nevada Hill.
When Nevada got diagnosed with cancer, he refused to let it take him. Chemo. Surgeries. Experimental techniques. It was brutal. But he refused to give in and treated the illness with utter contempt and disrespect. He vowed not to surrender, but to keep on living at any cost. Nevada even went on tour in between rounds of chemo. He made music and art up until the very end, and it was very inspiring to see someone fight to live like he did.

But the end would come. The last time I went to Houston to visit him in the hospital, he couldn’t see me. I could feel it was soon going to be the end. Knowing what was happening and feeling helpless, I decided to create sound that could just be happening while his spirit went. Some sort of heavy sound, something that he would approve of, to just be going on when he died. A sonic beacon, even if just on a psychic level, that could let him and everyone know that it would be all right. The loops went on for four days until he passed away. Some of it was recorded, and is used for the foundation of a series of songs, of which this is the first.

Stephen Lawrie and I had been planning to collaborate on recording since my first tour playing noise guitar in The Telescopes in 2012. This particular opportunity really resonated with both of us. Stephen used the loops to write vocals and melody around, and then recorded “Until the End” which was released on The Telescopes “Exploding Head Syndrome” album in 2018. We used the original loop that I had recorded, and both of us created this version of “Until The End” with Stephen doing half of the vocals and noise guitar, and me doing all of the rest. I was able to weave a viola part that Nevada had recorded previously into the mix as well. “O Death” is an old traditional song. Stephen played noise guitar and some percussion on this one, while I did the rest, and added some of Nevada’s viola.

These songs were recorded at home, with some fleshing out done at Cloudland Studio in Fort Worth. The horn parts on “O Death” were recorded at the Texas Theatre in Dallas."
-Chris Plavidal

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released March 26, 2021

Chris Plavidal - guitars, vocals, bass, horns, keyboard, drums
Stephen Lawrie - guitars, vocals, percussion
Nevada Hill - viola

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