"the love I shared in my sleep is the love I hold onto"
be·a·tif·ic / blissfully happy. “a beatific smile”
There is something about Strange Visions by Beatific (from their upcoming EP "Moonshine") that feels particularly surreal. Maybe it is the sock hop punk doo wop sway (pushed through heavy psychedelic filters) or the sort of languid lysergic fall that feels sort of Strawberry Fields-esque or the wide eyed vocal aesthetics, but it does feels off and on at the same time. Solid in it's nostalgia and utter beauty but tilting too. It could definitely grace a reboot of Twin Peaks or a current episode of Stranger Things (even though it doesn't feel 80's really).
Beatific is the convergence of sound designer, artist, singer songwriter Elad Marish, Jeremy Black (drummer of Apollo Sunshine and collaborator on the Bon Iver and The National-organized music festival PEOPLE), Will Bauer (programmer), Michael Pacis (percussion) and Mike Forst (keyboardist) and Marish offers:
"(Strange Visions) is about feeling different than 'regular' folk. When the middle class / presents under the xmas tree / hanging out out at soccer practice crowd doesn't jive with the young blood's program. Instead of what was promulgated growing up in suburbia, our protagonist felt more at home day dreaming, night dreaming, being alone, being in nature, and reading crazy shit in the library"
My family immigrated from the Netherlands and I remember feeling different than other kids right off the bat and I still do feel different. Maybe we sort of all do but are not inclined to tell each other. Strange indeed.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Known for his sound design work, Elad Marish was a songwriter long before becoming a respected industry professional. While Beatific is not Marish's first band or side project by any means, it's the first collaboration between him and Jeremy Black, formerly the drummer of Apollo Sunshine and more recently known as a collaborator on the Bon Iver and The National-organized music festival PEOPLE.
Rounded out by programmer Will Bauer, percussionist Michael Pacis, and keyboardist Mike Forst, the deep partnership on Beatific yields an EP that sprawls with myriad sounds and influences intersecting its four songs.
“In our world, the distinction between genres is rather grey,” Marish told GroundSounds in a recent interview ahead of their debut Sunshine EP. Where lead single "She Loves Him" is a euphoric trip into sun-drenched psych-folk, Beatific quickly segue into "Smile Dangerous," a bassy, strutting left turn into synth pop. The EP's most personal moment, "Perpetual Contemplation of an Infinite Glory," is a meditative unpacking of intergenerational trauma.
As wide-reaching as it sounds on paper, Sunshine is ultimately an eclectic, but focused journey into how we find our own beatific moments in a complicated world.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
spotify
beatificmusic
soundcloud
youtube
Known for his sound design work, Elad Marish was a songwriter long before becoming a respected industry professional. While Beatific is not Marish's first band or side project by any means, it's the first collaboration between him and Jeremy Black, formerly the drummer of Apollo Sunshine and more recently known as a collaborator on the Bon Iver and The National-organized music festival PEOPLE.
Rounded out by programmer Will Bauer, percussionist Michael Pacis, and keyboardist Mike Forst, the deep partnership on Beatific yields an EP that sprawls with myriad sounds and influences intersecting its four songs.
“In our world, the distinction between genres is rather grey,” Marish told GroundSounds in a recent interview ahead of their debut Sunshine EP. Where lead single "She Loves Him" is a euphoric trip into sun-drenched psych-folk, Beatific quickly segue into "Smile Dangerous," a bassy, strutting left turn into synth pop. The EP's most personal moment, "Perpetual Contemplation of an Infinite Glory," is a meditative unpacking of intergenerational trauma.
As wide-reaching as it sounds on paper, Sunshine is ultimately an eclectic, but focused journey into how we find our own beatific moments in a complicated world.
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