"I don’t know how to be good / When you’re around / Shut your mouth / I’m not finished yet / Shut your mouth / I’m not finished yet..."
The absolutely always interesting, alluring L.A. based The Kerosene Hours has released a sultry, slippery, groovy bit of dark escapism called 'Magic'. It is, after all, just days away from Halloween so it feels appropriate. This is not to say that the slapping sort of psych surfy down beats feel specific to only this month. You can ride this wave all year long.
The man behind, The Kerosene Hours as a multi-media darkly drawn project is L.A. based singer-songwriter, musician, artist Aaron Silverstein. I have been crushing on his creations for some time and had the pleasure of dipping into my own thoughts regarding his aesthetic that to me often times taps into the psyche of the times, of the seemingly never ending struggle between who we are in relationship to other controlling forces that maybe shaping who we are as individuals and as the collective we.
Aaron defines the The Kerosene Hours as "the hours between midnight and 4 a.m. — that strange pocket of time that exists between real life and someone else’s dream, a time when everything is a shade of neon red, lonely blue, or sickly green, a time when anything and everything can happen". It is a wonderfully wide definition (sort of) so for me, at least in my very best dreams, it is the time that every Christian White Nationalist violently chokes to death in their sleep. Fuck Halloween, Christmas is coming up but I digress.
Aaron often times juxtapositions his songs against 50's and 60's images that immediately shifts the song into the dark area of societal brain washing via subtle messaging. Those decades especially were designed to make us all into good little soldiers. In our little minds, cowboys and Indians got along and absolutely no members of congress or the senate were ever members of the KKK. Shift to modern times and one has to ask the "Make America Great Again" crowd, great for who??
Aaron's realization of 'Magic' with an utterly fun / cool Official Video rides on the gloriously vampy and vintage organ drone, moody guitar strikes and shuffling beats that feels like a slow vibey 70's Soul Train line dance. Aaron's low growl vox swagger that pitches up on the passionate refrain, "like Magic!" exudes sex but with a resolute underlying angst / pain as well. 'Magic' seems to exorcise demons of survival through life's torment in a cross generational way, from the past, from the present and even from the future. Aaron has imagined weirder tracks but 'Magic' from top to bottom might just be the most cool while still retaining the dark mystery that all his creations contain. Kudos to the production and fucking dig the drumming and guitar work.
"No, you’re not a doctor, or a teacher, or a firefighter but you still have a very important job—you’re a fortune teller in the heart of Los Angeles and people need you. They pay you good money to guide them, help them through tough times, and to tell them what the future will bring. You lie to every person who sits in front of you with their palms up and their eyes closed begging for answers but that’s okay because people don’t want the truth. People don’t really want to know what the future looks like, they want hope and you give it to them. So rest easy fortune teller, as long as your stories are fun, as long as your stories are good, and as long as your stories are gold, people will always need you." - The Kerosene Hours
Aaron is working on his debut album as The Kerosene Hours, affectionately titled “Fantasy Unlimited.”
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://soundcloud.com/thekerosenehours
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6ej9Jf3YxUxT5iDskCJV4o
https://www.instagram.com/thekerosenehours/
https://www.thekerosenehours.com/
The Kerosene Hours are the hours between midnight and 4 a.m. — that strange pocket of time that exists between real life and someone else’s dream, a time when everything is a shade of neon red, lonely blue, or sickly green, a time when anything and everything can happen. The Kerosene Hours is also the dark rock, multimedia project of LA-based creative Aaron Silverstein.
Currently, he’s working on his debut album as The Kerosene Hours, affectionately titled “Fantasy Unlimited.” The album and the accompanying visuals are a meditation on the inherent insanity of suburban life viewed through the lens of the darkest fantasies we keep hidden from the outside world. Silverstein is releasing each track from the album individually with an accompanying video, so by the end, the album will be both an audio and visual experience — a time capsule of sorts.
Silverstein was born and raised in Los Angeles and when not making music or working with brands as a freelance Art Director, he spends much of sunlight hours working as a WGA writer.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://soundcloud.com/thekerosenehours
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6ej9Jf3YxUxT5iDskCJV4o
https://www.instagram.com/thekerosenehours/
https://www.thekerosenehours.com/
The Kerosene Hours are the hours between midnight and 4 a.m. — that strange pocket of time that exists between real life and someone else’s dream, a time when everything is a shade of neon red, lonely blue, or sickly green, a time when anything and everything can happen. The Kerosene Hours is also the dark rock, multimedia project of LA-based creative Aaron Silverstein.
Currently, he’s working on his debut album as The Kerosene Hours, affectionately titled “Fantasy Unlimited.” The album and the accompanying visuals are a meditation on the inherent insanity of suburban life viewed through the lens of the darkest fantasies we keep hidden from the outside world. Silverstein is releasing each track from the album individually with an accompanying video, so by the end, the album will be both an audio and visual experience — a time capsule of sorts.
Silverstein was born and raised in Los Angeles and when not making music or working with brands as a freelance Art Director, he spends much of sunlight hours working as a WGA writer.
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