Join Dark Sky Alliance for an exclusive listen party to celebrate INTERDWELL the week before release. Come along and listen to the music with the artists (Jerry Marotta, Eric "the" Taylor, Rupert Greenall, and David Helpling), and chat about the making of the album.
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
The CD version of INTERDWELL, in a factory sealed 4-panel gatefold package that includes all artwork, and liner notes.
Includes digital pre-order of Interdwell.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around May 17, 2024
Purchasable with gift card
$16USDor more
Streaming + Download
Pre-order of Interdwell. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
Spotted Peccary Music is proud to present Interdwell, the debut album from the group Dark Sky Alliance, comprised of music industry veterans percussionist Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel, Indigo Girls), keyboardist Rupert Greenall (The Fixx), soundscaping synthesist Eric “the” Taylor, and cinematic sound-maestro guitarist David Helpling. This visionary premiere is a feat of sonic storytelling, each composition a different scene. Hidden in Interdwell’s kaleidoscopic sound are shades of all their past work: new wave guitar flourishes, tribal ambient percussion, richly layered synth-beds, Hans Zimmer- esque cinematic crescendos—but here, they coalesce into something uniquely vivid and bracingly original, something the members of Dark Sky Alliance could only make together.
Interdwell’s twelve compositions draw inspiration from the personal and the cosmic, the natural world and the fantastical. The album’s first epic opens with “Fortunate One” featuring chanting from the late Sonam Targee and builds layer upon layer from there. Halfway through, a propulsive bass groove entwines with Targee’s chants, shifting from melancholic to euphoric, a celebration of the time we’re gifted with those we love. “Warm Inlet” was inspired by a view of the Adirondacks on 7th Lake that can only be seen by boat; new wave guitar warbles paint the glimmering whitecaps, a steady bassline the powerful undercurrent, with Vangelis-esque synth chords the sun on the mountain peaks. Dreamlike and reflective, “The Slow Train Home,” was born from Eric “the” Taylor’s first ever recording session with Marotta and bassist Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson) over 20 years ago. Levin’s emotive upright bass glides through an electronic landscape both airy and rich, a traveler watching the hills roll by.
The title track takes the listener beyond Earth, depicting humanity’s journey through space: the tribal march of Marotta’s percussion as a voyager, shimmering sequencers as stars through the viewport, anthemic electric guitar as a starship’s acceleration, a distant destination finally reached.
Interdwell is a vivid, inspiring odyssey throughout, a work that carries the listener from a sun-dappled lake to the furthest reaches of space and back again, leaving only the desire to experience it all over again.
credits
releases May 17, 2024
Dark Sky Alliance is:
Jerry Marotta
Rupert Greenall
Eric "the" Taylor
David Helpling
All songs produced, performed, and written by Dark Sky Alliance
Mixed by David Helpling
Deep Exile, San Diego, California
Mastered by Howard Givens
Spotted Peccary Studios NW, Portland, Oregon
Recorded at
Dreamland Studios, West Hurley, New York
Jersville, Woodstock, New York
Forcefield Studios, Rochester, New York
Deep Exile, San Diego, California
Additional Recording at Soundscape Productions, Carmel, California
Design by Daniel Pipitone
Spotted Peccary Studios NE, Ligonier, Pennsylvania
Dark Sky Alliance is comprised of music industry veterans percussionist Jerry Marotta (Peter Gabriel, Indigo Girls),
keyboardist Rupert Greenall (The Fixx), soundscaping synthesist Eric “the” Taylor, and cinematic sound-maestro guitarist David Helpling....more
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