Seventeen Evergreen 'Music Is The Wine' video

Seventeen Evergreen's chief-protagonists Caleb Pate and Nephi Evans, are both singers, multi-instrumentalists, & most importantly, storytellers of imagination and hyper-reality. "Music is the wine, to fill my cup of sadness, helping to forget a love electrocuted", is the simple eloquent message offered here, emphasizing the emotionally-healing quality that music holds for so many of us. "The songs of love that live, beyond the instruments, behind your eyes and growing, gradually pull...[you]...in", to a stronger place, of course! It's a sexy place too, adopting 'Moon Safari's sultriness as if played by an acutely amorous band of space-funkers. This is true to The Independent's reading of Seventeen Evergreen's album, its' "...other-worldliness recalls Midlake only with the time-machine set for the future rather than the past."

Further fortifying the aphrodisiac funk is the most chic of Parisians, Joakim. His remix comes on like the super-slinky 'Space-Disco' sister to Taana Gardner's classic Heartbeat', a groove of dancefloor lust you can imagine both Grandmaster Flash & Larry Levan championing as their own. It's a minimal but bumpin' breakbeat that feels like it's on the cusp of a new dance genre, cutting a fresh soulful edge to the track alongside the reverberations of a startling sonic mix of rasping keyboard trills & effects that Joakim rocks so well!

In addition we hear surely a new expression of 'dubstep' with Bi-Polar Men's mix of album track 'Ensoniq', providing an irresistible urgency to the deep bass tones we're used to from the genre. Leading scenester Skream has already made this mix a stalwart of his international dj sets and featured it on his recent Radio 1 'Essential Mix'.

Seventeen Evergreen's vision goes way beyond the sonic of course. Following their association with supreme video-groundbreakers Encyclopedia Pictura the band are now currently in LA directing their own storyboard. As lead singer Caleb puts it he expects them to be "waylaid by the bling-fest, but reminded that life is magic." The result will surely extend the picture book beauty of their previous promo activity, including gravity-defying romps in Marin County, & somersaults in space whilst performing!

Seventeen Evergreen extend their persuasive European campaign with live appearances in September 2007, performing festival dates at 'End Of The Road', Dorset (14/09), and Rotterdam's 'Bazar Curieux' (15/09), and alongside Mercury-nominated Maps in Paris (17/09), with further UK collaboration tbc. You can also catch Seventeen Evergreen in Brussels (18/09) and Dublin (22/09) before the band headline a 'Sonic Cathedral' promotion at London's Luminaire (25/09).

So once more Seventeen Evergreen are continuing to glide eyes wide-open along life's many paths, savouring the manna of every one of their visionary details.

The EP is available as a strictly limited, and lovingly packaged, twelve inch vinyl and a not so lovingly packaged download.

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