Mysterious Canadian glam-rocker Art d'Ecco is excited to announce his debut album Trespasser, due October 12 on Paper Bag Records. To ring in the announcement, d'Ecco revealed the video for his new single "Never Tell," which is available to stream or embed HERE. Pre-order the album HERE, and stream or purchase "Never Tell" HERE.
"We were going for a Wizard of Oz meets Nicholas Winding Refn thing," Art D'Ecco said of the video. "There's a nod to Lost Highway in there. Nobody "plays" the sax better than Bill Pullman, but I did my best."
"We wanted to make it look old school and to do that we played around with different filters and vintage lenses," says the video's cinematographer Wai Sun Cheng. "The colour theme was mostly chosen based on 80s poster art. d'Ecco brought a bunch of vintage instruments he used on the recording to the shoot and that really adds to the overall look of the video."
The Gulf
Islands of the
Pacific Northwest are an enigma. The islands jut up through the brisk waters of the
Pacific Ocean, and just as the likes of Vancouver and Seattle exist at the intersection of opulences both natural and manmade, the islands host multitudes in their lush, hushed red cedar and Doug Fir skyscrapers. Art d'Ecco is one such multitude: an unapologetic, inclusive rock and roll mystic in a wig and lipstick.
When d'Ecco moved into his grandmother's cottage on one of the islands, he hadn't planned on creating a new project. But, as it often does, circumstance charted his course. His grandmother, living with Alzheimer's, suffered a related phenomenon called 'sundowning,' which triggers increased agitation and anxiety around sunset. "The only way to calm this lady down was to sit down at the piano," says d'Ecco. He would play "Bohemian Rhapsody," passing it off asBeethoven. After she was relocated, d'Ecco remained in the empty house where he had played as a child. Draped in memory, he gravitated toward the piano, spending the long, lonesome, quiet nights on the bench before the instrument. This is where Art d'Ecco was created.
He relocated to a new cottage, built a studio and barricaded himself with copies of Deerhunter'sCryptograms, Bowie's Low, and choice krautrock records. In this solitude, d'Ecco would chase tones for hours. The result is a richly-realized confluence of the ferocious spark of those trailblazers and a distinct sadness, with d'Ecco as mad scientist, stitching together these delicious fragments and animating them.
Trespasser track list:
1. Never Tell
2. Joy
3. Mary
4. Nobody's Home
5. Who is it Now?
6. Dark Days (revisited)
7. trespasser
8. Lady Next Door
9. Last in Line
10. The Hunted
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