The Dye is back with a new release: “Tuning the Wind”.
Featured on the album “Painting The New Night.”
November 2022 – The Dye is a band with a distinctive sound and a one-of-a-kind focus on making music that tips the hat off to the golden age of rock, proto-punk, indie and garage, while still retaining a very dynamic and beautifully diverse sound with a contemporary flair.
The band’s music offers a perfect balance of retro aesthetics and huge modern punch, painting a kaleidoscopic picture of the band’s creativity at its absolute best. “Tuning the Wind” is a really great example of The Dye’s constant progression for the band.
The soft-spoken and mellow edge of the track features a dreamy, lullaby-like tone that makes the atmosphere very cinematic. The song is also one of the most notable moments on the band’s recent album, “Painting The New Night,” a beautiful record with 11 original songs.
The Dye’s music is highly recommended to fans of artists such as David Bowie, Francis Moon, Velvet Underground, Grace Slick, and Arcade Fire, only to mention but a few.
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The “New Night” arrives for alternative rock band The Dye
Grammy winner Damon Whittemore produced “Painting the New Night,” which arrived Friday as airplay eclipses 200,000 spins. The band’s Eudora Ellis co-creates the Fierce Femme Fest.
NEW YORK CITY (10 June 2022): On Thursday night (June 9), 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 released Friday by 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. Now that the album has been released, Ellis is capitalizing on the foothold the band established in local clubs as a platform to support women’s issues and creating opportunities for women in music via the Fierce Femme Fest concert series.
The Dye paints sonic murals crafted from palettes of psychedelic color and dark gothic hues. Arredondo and Ellis wrote eleven songs for “Painting the New Night,” pairing their flair for incisive poetic lyricism with artful mélanges of sound constructed from vintage classic rock sensibilities, retro new wave nuances, post-punk edginess and bite, and avant-garde alternative rock. Vibrant melodies and lush harmonies cascade, washing over tracks etched from gritty, grinding and gauzy guitar riffs and swirling swatches of keyboard atmospherics anchored by raw rhythmic basslines (Paul Ogunsalu) and punctually aggressive to drum beats (Jared Pease and Eric Grajo). Tenor saxophonist Isak Gaines adds to the wall of sound.
“There was an enormous amount of passion, devotion and positive intentions that went into creating each and every note of this work of art. The album ignites sensory pathways that illuminate with vivid dreamlike landscapes of colors. ‘Painting the New Night’ is a journey into the labyrinth of the soul, finding new spaces, shades, tones, textures, shapes and shadows of sound. The album invites one to embark on a sonic quest delving deep into psychedelic, cinematic alternative rock while traveling through themes of transformation, empowerment, release, innocence, mysticism, rebirth, love and healing,” said lead vocalist Ellis, who plays synthesizers, organ, piano and tambourine on the recording.
“Tuning the Wind” is the second lullaby on this album. It is a song that focuses on the beauty and simplicity experienced when being in tune with the moment and appreciating the magic of life. The piece is deeply connected to the joy of childhood and imagination. It was conceived from the image of a white gigantic house upon a hill isolated for miles from everything around it except the green hill. This image serves as a runway for the flight of mind allowing the imagination to depart anywhere it pleases to go. The lady in the later verse sings “ I lay alone in the trance under the stars” as her soul escapes the limits of gravity. A line in Thomas Hardy’s novel,Tess of the d’Urbervilles, lends a similar conception “your soul can escape your body before you die..like when you lay on a field at night and stare intensely at the night sky your soul leaves your body a trillion miles away floating with the stars”. This escapism is a metaphor for death and becoming a part of something beyond when you depart the physical world. It is also a metaphor for experiencing a pure connection with infinity while being fully connected to the moment. This can occur when you’re writing or playing music and are completely immersed in the power of sound, vibration, musicality…while the core of your being is pulsating with the present. This song and this entire record were created in a trance of deep connection. The Dye’s songwriters were completely absorbed in the moment floating in the essence of the songs. The stories were already written inside of them. They were released while tuning themselves with infinity.
Learning to let go allows us the freedom to create space. The practice of gratitude cultivates a positive state of mind. In mindful practices such as yoga and meditation one can develop a deeper sense of inner peace, learn to be with the self and discover the joys of solitude. As one experiences the lightness of being in the magic of the present moment one can let go of the material world. Reconnecting with the delights of the natural surroundings and all its majestic creatures uplifts the human spirit. As one flows glowing in the unity of all…a curiosity is quenched to travel guided by the map of the stars. Lyrics in the tune express the openness to explore ”A white balloon and a silver fairy light come to get me” and “I’m chasing a purple butterfly, a giant purple butterfly.” These are symbols of opening oneself to the unknown, new experiences, and simplicity. When we are at peace with ourselves we can open to the possibility of connecting with others and becoming the most creative and inspiring version of ourselves!
Themes
Learning to be with yourself, Discovery of the peace of solitude, Lightness of being, Happiness in simplicity, Learning to let go, Letting go of the material world, Love of nature, Reconnecting with childhood, Flowing with new experiences, Fairies, Animals, Stardust,
Unity of all things, Being in tune with the universe, Being in the present, Navigation, Balance. Astrology, Imagination, Travel, Nirvana. Internal peace, Motherhood, Mother Earth. Completion. Yoga, Meditation, Sound Healing
