PANS and the translucent melancholia, artful psychic opera of "Dusty Hands"

 

"I've got my eye on you now / dusty hands..."

The grainy filmed alternate universe of "Dusty Hands" by Miami, Florida based alternative folk, chamber pop, indie rock outfit PANS is an artful trip. Not only does it feel like a dreamy step back in time but, it's artful pastiche, a velvet curtained sense of bohemian folk turned inside out with injections of a kind of gothic psychedelia, feels less conceived as exorcised. As a film genre it might be a darkly drawn blend of a Western Americana, Italian horror and abstract imagery, an amalgam of John Ford, Dario Argento and Alexandro Jodorowsky. 

This is not to say that the emotional sense here is opaquely melancholy. It is not. It feels torn but deeply romantic, feels like some survivor story but exquisitely beautiful, and yes. melancholy but in a translucent way. The vocal countenance, at once, stately and grand, feels intimate. Some of the circular musical shapes are presented, played with such presence while emotionally present to the nth degree. This might sound kind of wild but this feels like a song that could have been conceived by Mike Patton in collaboration with Elton John. As I write it, it seems even wilder but I will stick with it.    

LINER NOTES might provide the songs interiors:

[Have you ever felt like you're wrestling against time and your own patience and it seems to get you nowhere? The second that you give in, things start to take shape and you are able to view things in a different light. That's the spirit of Dusty Hands. The anxiety you feel when you are in bed but you can't fall asleep. Looking at the "dusty hands" of an old grandfather clock. Wrestling with your own patience. Wondering when you will fall into that slumber. The second you stop trying to fall asleep is when it happens. It's that precious moment of surrender. In Dusty Hands, the moment of surrender is represented by swirling orchestral characters that slowly enter the scene. Inviting you to slow dance in an abandoned ballroom. A one-hundred year old piano, post World War 1 parlor guitars, a rare French instrument from the 1920's called the ondes Martenot (one of the first electronic instruments created) and violins. Instruments that have developed their own agency from the lives they have outlived and the ghosts that haunt them. Dusty Hands is the first of two singles that will be released in anticipation of an EP called "Passing The Ghost" later this year. This body of work touches upon the concept of time, mortality and learning how to navigate it. For this song we had the great honor to be able to work with mixing engineer and producer Danny Reisch which has worked with the likes of Local Natives, Sharon Van Etten, Khruangbin, Disney's Peter Pan & Wendy and The Green Knight. We are very exited for its release and to have listeners connect to this message.]

I would not doubt that "Dusty Hands" will invade my sleep and that it will be a ghost story. That's ok by me. 

-Robb Donker Curtius

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/track/39udIpZbxI8Sjhd2629EVP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UokvRWWSMvY

https://www.instagram.com/pansmusic/

https://pansmusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-wilderness

https://www.facebook.com/pansmusic

Indie band based out of Miami, Florida, orchestrating and composing chamber pop, rock, and folk inspired multi-instrumental tunes in the hopes of capturing a semblance of life in the form of music for the inner muse.

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