The Dye presents: Summer
January 2023 – The Dye is a band whose music seamlessly straddles the line between a wide range of styles. The group’s tone combines the edge of garage with the melody of indie and alternative, finding the perfect balance between these different styles and making for a truly unique formula.
Listeners with a fondness for alternative rock should not pass up on this one; especially if they do enjoy the work of artists such as Bowie, The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Interpol, Jefferson Airplane, Blur, and Air, only to mention a few! With such a wide variety of influences, the possibilities are truly endless, and The Dye is ready to kick off 2023 with a big bang!
Summer, the group most recent release, provides a very engaging listening experience, which immediately makes for a unique mood setter.
Find out more about The Dye, and do not miss out on Summer.
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Grammy winner Damon Whittemore produced “Painting the New Night,” airplay eclipses 200,000 spins. NEW YORK CITY alternative rock band The Dye took the stage at New York City’s The Cutting Room to celebrate the release of their debut album, “Painting the New Night,” which was releasedby WITHYN Records. Grammy winner Damon Whittemore (Paul McCartney, Béla Fleck, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Arooj Aftab) produced the eleven songs written by dexterous guitarist Bruno Arrendondo and captivating keyboardist Eudora Ellis, who share lead vocals for the NYC-based group.The first two singles from the album, “Clementine” and “Tantric Pace,” have already garnered over 200,000 spins in the first month since their release, having been added into the rotation at more than a dozen commercial rock radio stations.
The Dye’s sonic palette on “Painting the New Night” consists of vivid hues of avant-garde alternative rock, psychedelic nuance, ethereal goth darkness, retro new wave fun, post-punk attitude and classic rock ethos. Lyrically, their subjects are as powerful, intense and incisive as their layered and intricately textured tracks filled out by bassist Paul Ogunsalu, drummers Jared Pease and Eric Grajo, and tenor saxophonist Isak Gaines. As songwriters, Arrendondo and Ellis observe and chronicle, passionately advocate, and astutely ruminate about transformation, empowerment, release, innocence, mysticism, violence, rebirth, love and healing.The Mexico-born Arrendondo and Ellis, an American who grew up living abroad in London and Belgium, are Berklee College of Music graduates who spent four years working on “Painting the New Night” while honing their dynamic live performances in New York City-area nightclubs.
“Summer” was inspired by the image of a bell tower building in Central Park South, Manhattan. This image reminded us of David Bowie’s character in the movie “The Hunger”. The song tells the story of a strung out vampire on the verge of death. He’s hiding from the sun on a summer afternoon while dreaming in the attic of a bell tower. The memories of other centuries come to his mind reminding him of when he was young. He was full of life then experiencing the fiery summers and the power of a deep romance. His soul mate is now long gone. “Seven poems wake up naked rolling from the lazy side of the sun”. The summer light echoing from the walls of neighboring Manhattan skyscrapers ring poetry chanted by his departed. Her artistic soul and femininity intoxicate him, bringing ease to the fading of his physical existence. The line “I vanished from the stream of fatal bones’ ‘ expresses how he was able to cheat death but unable to defeat the melancholy drowning his heart. Continuous voices of his absent lover bellow in his soul. The lyric “All the voices unfold the pulse of the vein” reminds the listener of how our main character is obsessed by the memories of the past as he ceases to live in the present. “Summer” spells seduce the spirit of youth inside of us. “Summer” is a season of love..seeking romance in lovers, sound, film, poetry, dreams in both the surreal and natural worlds. A song about remembering how alive we felt in those moments on the quest for the pleasures of youth. When we feel most alive we possess a secret desire to live for eternity. The song’s somber tone illustrates the pains of reality as we become aware that through aging we aren’t granted eternal life…and through the loss of love we can instead live an eternal death in life.
