There are musicians that are famous and follow the rules of a genre and create music that everybody loves. Then there are a few who take the road not taken. They create or rather make sounds into music. ‘Alchemists of sound’ is a phrase I like to use to describe them. Just as an alchemist can convert anything to gold, these musicians can transform sounds into music. Rose Dees is one such artist with a very bizarre and raw style that might start off as weird but has the ability to grow on you.
Rose Dees is a producer/songwriter from Dallas, Texas and her music cannot be defined under any one genre; except maybe experimental! Her music is raw and not a computer-generated regurgitation of some arpeggio melodies and sounds, but some very complex ideas and grooves out of the most random sounds. A lot of her songs reference depression and her struggles of climbing out of anxiety and you can see that these fuel her creativity.
The album starts of with ‘Cum as I am’. This is the first track I have ever heard of Rose Dees in my life, if I’m being honest. It starts off with a dialogue that says she wants to do something different and that she’s from space. A very interesting way to create a story line and introduction to this album, an aspect I really appreciate in albums. The track just starts off with the dialogue and ends in a tape saturated pad.
The beauty of the album is that every track ends and the next track begins with the same sounds, giving it a sense of continuity and also adding to the story line of the album. ‘Dude, Your mom’s hot’ dives right into Rose’s psychotic wonderland. Imagine a circus with clowns and dolls that are stitched back together and everything is grey and the skies are thundering. Even though everything is scary and grey, everyone is friendly and understanding. A paradox that leaves you laughing and jumping around with the murderous doll ‘Chucky’. A change in perspective is what this album is giving me! The second track features some very nice and groovy bass-lines with her usual quirky and eerie vocals.
‘Eat your Friends’ starts off with a full-on industrial vibe that is accompanied by some very weird vocals. A very distorted image of a dystopian future that is only visually distraught but is actually a really fun and comfortable place! This track features some synths that add propulsion and act as leads when the second half of the track takes off. The vocals are a nice touch throughout the tracks except in the breaks where the synth takes the center stage.
Fast forwarding to ‘Alien Sexuality’ is like a telescope into the artist’s bizarre brain. She’s being really open and talks about sexuality in general. A track that I really like in this album Is ‘Hurt me’. It’s the most out of the box creative track that starts of with some really cool effects on the percussion and slowly spirals into her usual mess of vocals, a bass-line and a synth lead.
The album ends with ‘I Love you’. You hear a clock ticking and some seagulls and the sea. “Time and Tide wait for no man(or woman or alien)”. She says shes thankful for her time on earth and her human boyfriend. The whole album is an amazingly connected one that speaks a lot about the artists creativity and state of mind. She has created a bizarre alternate world or planet where she is an alien.
Give it a listen with an open mind and appreciate the fact that there are still people out there making bizarre art using music. Not just the run of the mill copy-cats. A really unique and tasteful album that can have a very profound effect on the listeners perspective of music!
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