Carry Me to My Grave by Spartan Jet-Plex
October 31, 2020: Spartan Jet-Plex: Nancy Grim Kells (they/them) is releasing this EP as a companion to their album Live. These are a short set of songs that were written pre-pandemic. They weren't recorded for Live since they didn't fit with that set of songs. While Live is more of a celebration of life and living, Carry Me to My Grave is a lamentation of life and also of death, but these songs find and breathe hope, comfort and solace despite sadness and sorrow. Kells' music is largely inspired by older folk and blues music, and they quite literally bring in 2 of their favorite musicians via samples (Charlie McCoy and Blind Willie Johnson) on the tracks Shipwreck and Sun/Moon. Shipwreck uses a Charlie McCoy sample from Candy Man Blues. His words Carry Me to My Grave launch the song Shipwreck. Sun/Moon begins with a remix of Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground by Willie Johnson. It then morphs into Kells' folk song Sun/Moon, and then again bleeds at the end into a tribute version of Dark Was the Night - Cold Was the Ground. Proceeds for this EP support Grimalkin.
There is a full visual album for Carry Me to My Grave made in collaboration with Rafael de Toledo Pedroso in the same style as the videos for Live. This time Kells took footage of old country cemeteries near their home and Rafa did the effects, textures, and... more
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released October 31, 2020
written, recorded and mastered by Nancy Grim Kells in their living room
spartanjet-plex.bandcamp.com
cover art by Nancy Grim Kells with some assistance from Elizabeth Owens and Rafael de Toledo Pedroso
Cover art for lathes by Nancy Grim Kells with assistance on graphic design by Elizabeth Owens
Digital still collages for each track by Rafael de Toledo Pedroso
All proceeds from my music support Grimalkin Records' label and mutual aid fund.
grimalkinrecords.bandcamp.com/music
Huge thanks to Taylor and The All Scene Eye for premiering the video for Shipwreck and the pre-order for this EP: theallsceneeye.com/2020/09/12/premiere-on-a-new-visual-album-spartan-jet-plex-isnt-just-surviving/
Huge thanks to Louis and MEFD for including this EP in your weekly roundup of favorites: www.mesenceintesfontdefaut.com/2020/11/08/coups-de-coeur-8-novembre/