ART ROCK/POST PROG GROUP
DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS
RELEASING NEW ALBUM
PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINES
(MUSIC FOR A FILM)
ZOOM EXCLUSIVE
WITH
OSCAR FUENTES BILLS
& SEPAND
SAMZADEH
MUSIC
VIDEO
“SEEDS”
OUT NOW!
Days Between Stations are releasing their fourth album, “Perpetual Motion Machines (Music For A Film),” on November 29. Just released this weekend is the music video “Seeds.” The music video for “Seeds” features artist Jean-Paul Bourdier at work, altering landscapes, coloring bodies, marking up film frames, playing with manufactured items to see how they influence visuals. “Perpetual Motion Machines (Music For Film)” is the result of DBS founding members keyboardist Oscar Fuentes Bills and guitarist Sepand Samzadeh working on the music for a documentary film about Jean-Paul Bourdier, himself, in the mid-2010s. As the music reached completion, the group was offered the opportunity to release their music as a “proper” album. Sepand says, “Jean Paul’s artwork was our muse, and we scored the music to pictures and to existing films.”
One song, "Being," felt unfinished at the time. Oscar had written a melody that lent itself to vocals, and “we based them around the general concept of existence and trying to inject Jean Paul’s poetic philosophy.” Ultimately, the lyrics came from a more personal place, “this is what Jean-Paul’s art inspired us to do, and we let the music speak for itself. Pink Floyd backup vocalist Durga McBroom sings on “Being,” which will be released as a video on November 29, the same day as the album. Produced by Navon Weisberg (The Voice engineer, Puddle of Mudd), he helmed the project “as a fan. I removed the technical hurdles and allowed Sepand and Oscar to focus their energy on the music, allowing their emotions to be captured.” The album is dedicated to the memory of "Big" Bill Kaylor who engineered early sessions of “Perpetual Motion Machines” and worked on the group’s second album, “In Extremis.”
Formed exactly 20 years ago in Los Angeles, Sepand and Oscar
named the band after Steve Erickson’s novel “Days Between Stations.” The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord inspired
the band to work on their music after he used some of Sepand and Oscar’s
musical experiments as the basis for “Saturday” on The Pineapple Thief’s “12
Stories Down” album. The duo continued
to work with a range of musicians on what became their first release, “Days
Between Stations,” in 2007. Their 2012
recording “In Extremis” was produced by Yes’ Billy Sherwood. In 2020 they
released “Giants,” which included vocals from Durga McBroom on “Witness the End
of the World” and voted as Prog Magazine’s Track of the Week.
The band has a history of music in films-dating back to “Radio
Song” (from the debut album) licensed in the independent film “Young, Single
& Angry” in 2006 and then in 2023 in “Paul & Trisha: The Art of
Fluidity,” now featured on Apple Movies. They created the score for a short
Mexican movie, “Y Recibir Tu Aliento” in 2017.
THE NEW ALBUM
BY
DAYS
BETWEEN STATIONS
entitled
PERPETUAL MOTION
MACHINES
(MUSIC
FOR A FILM)
Album
official release date Nov. 29th
first music
video “Seeds” is out now!
Pre-Order
CD or vinyl at
www.daysbetweenstations.com/product-category/perpetual-motion-machines/
FOR MORE
INFORMATION
ABOUT
DAYS
BETWEEN STATIONS
VISIT
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DISCOGRAPHY
2007: Days Between Stations
2013: In Extremis
2020: Giants
2024: Perpetual Motion Machines
THE ROCK STAR CHRONICLES
BOOK TRAILER
BOOK REVIEW
-By Literary Titan (5) STARS
The Rock Star Chronicles by Ray Shasho, is a splendid book written by a music enthusiast who has poured their heart and soul into it. It’s a story of a boy who loved rock music, and his obsessive passion of it earned himself the name Rock Raymond. He went to school but instead was schooled in all matters of music while his peers were buried chin-deep in coursework. He then became a radio DJ and has now compiled a book on all interviews he held with Rock gods who raided the airwaves back in the 70s and 80s. It’s a compilation of interviews with outstanding vocalists, legendary guitarists and crazy drummers in the rock music scene. Each interview gives a reader an in-depth view into their personal lives and the philosophies that guide their lives which all serve to humanize these great icons. For readers who are old enough to call themselves baby boomers this book will bring old memories back to life. Millennials, on the other hand, may think of this book as a literal work of the Carpool Karaoke show.
The Rock Star Chronicles is a book I didn’t know I was waiting for. To come across a book that will talk me into trying something new. One brave enough to incite me to venture into new frontiers. This book made me a believer- I am now a bona fide Rock and Roll music fan.
Ray Shasho masterfully gets the interviewees talking. He smartly coaxes answers from them with crafty questions designed to get a story rolling out of them. The artists talk about diverse issues ranging from music, politics, and their social engagements. Having been on the music seen all his life, Ray Shasho knows the buttons to press, how to get them comfortable about talking about their lives.
The book’s cover is befitting of its subject matter with the leather look offering a royal background to the golden letter print. It speaks to how high a level rock music holds in the pecking order- arguably, modern music as we know it has originated from blues and rock music. The second noteworthy thing is the use of high-definition pictures to reference the musician being interviewed in every sub-chapter. This ensures that the book is for both original rock and roll lovers and aspiring new ones. Together is makes for a refreshing and consistently enjoyable read.
I recommend this book to rock music enthusiasts, aspiring musicians wondering what it takes and all readers curious to learn new things by going back in time.
https://literarytitan.com/2020/05/03/literary-titan-book-awards-may-2020/
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