New album MATER DOLOROSA out Sept. 15th
"What is under the mask of the face that you portray to the world?" asks Los Angeles-based artist CrowJane. An appropriate question from a music and visual artist whose art carries a heavy dose of mystery and dense musicality that is alluringly elusive yet primally irresistible. Premiering the first single and video "Terminal Secrets" on darkwave tome Post-Punk.com, CrowJane explores the the darkest reaches of alternative and punk and mines them for inspiration.
"Lyrically, this song was inspired by the idea that a person can have a smile on their face but be screaming on the inside," she tells Post-Punk.com. "What is portrayed on the outside doesn't always reflect what is actually going on inside a person and within their mind. People can spend so much of their life chasing for money, power, security, validation, fame, 'success', and wake up to the realization of the 'monster they have become' on their journey to obtain or achieve it."The visually arresting video combines stop-motion animation and the experimental art and special effects makeup, creating a surrealistic and darkly magical dreamscape. "Director Jenny Nirgends and I both wanted to portray transformation through our love of stop motion animation," she explains. "We were inspired by various different stop motion films of The Brothers Quay and Peter Gabriel's music video for 'Sledgehammer'."Having worked with her before while recording her band Egrets On Ergot, LA punk legend Paul Roessler (Screamers, Nina Hagen, 45 Grave, Deadbeats) could see that she was in the grips of the kind of crushing woe that's so often the seed of hard-won transformation. Suspecting the rewards that awaited if she would risk shining a light on her own murk, Roessler took matters into his own hands and all but locked her in his studio, Kitten Robot. Surrounding her with every available musical instrument, a pen and some paper, he compelled her to face the rawness of loss, abuse, and addiction.
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