"dark romantic, art/film noir"
NYC based performance artist, singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Eve Minor likes to push buttons. On her latest track, Ostara, she rides lines between Gothic post rock and a sort of dark synth wave with hints of industrial rock but baroque pop tones too. Despite, the almost Hammer Horror pop feel, there is elegance too as in the musical break that mines synth strings orchestrations. In the end, it feels like a Gothic love song between humans or entities or both.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
A NYC based singer, artist, producer and multi instrumentalist. Eve Minor is anything but boring. Between intense stage performances and self produced and written music, she is a highly creative individual who brings a unique flavor as she mixes many styles together for her own sound. She has graced the stage with Ghostfaced Killah, and many high profile punk artists including leftover crack/choking victim. Having successfully completed a national tour this summer, Eve Minor continues to move forward as the hardest working DIY artist the world has ever seen.
A visual and sonic art piece using machinima and surrealist motifs through a sad loud and post punk medium. Eve Minor is the sole creator of the music and visual art, and has her unique dark romantic, art/film noir, and cinematic approach to a love song. The instruments and sounds were carefully crafted to feel like a missing song on the albums "Pornography", by The Cure, or "violator" by Depeche Mode. Eve Minor uses washed out reverb heavy guitars as a layer with dark synths to give it a gothic feel. The lyrics are written in prose, as a love sonnet to a broken lover. Initially this song was made for one of Eve Minor's muses, but had since fallen awry. Eve minor explained it's "just the way it goes, to let space for someone who is the right one to move it." The visual art incorporates sultry but dark cinematography with heavy symbolism inspired by David Lynch, and makes use of fine art paintings "Love Is Blind" and a passionate kiss to illustrate a story book romance; that which she is seeking. In the break, there is a cartoon symphony portraying Cinderella, as Eve Minor elaborates, to be the broken child having gone through abandonment her whole life, she related with Cinderella. The brief nudity is more symbolic of intimacy and illustrating that intimacy between the words, music, and art, by showing bare bones. The lyric, "knife in my chest" is a nod to Elliot Smith's suicide, which in Eve's own words is the most romantic suicide in her eyes; he couldn't live without his lover so he killed himself. Albeit dramatic and bizarre; it fits in Eve's world and art completely. Dark surrealism, heavy use of fine art mechanics and sonic poetry.
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