David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets) presents 'Migena And The Frozen Roses', a new single that features The Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe on keys, synth, percussion and programming and spoken word by Italian actress Asia Argento.
Collectively written by these three artists, this song was co-produced by David J and Anton Newcombe, the latter of whom also engineered it at Cobra Studio in Berlin. The single will be released on September 6. The accompanying video was created by Scott Saw. "This video is yet another collaboration with my friend and consummate artist / photographer / film maker, Scott Saw. A very simple set up to evoke the original setting and experience in Turin where sprung the inspiration for the song," says David J. This is the second single from David J's forthcoming album 'Missive To An Angel From The Halls Of Infamy And Allure', following the release of 'The Auteur (Redux / The Starlet's Cut)' featuring actress, activist and writer Rose McGowan. The new album will be released in late autumn. "I wrote the words to this while on tour, on a flight from Turin to Berlin, on my way to stay with Brian Jonestown Massacre mastermind Anton Newcombe. We had planned to record something new together in his studio. This collaboration instantly clicked. Anton recorded a basic beat and we came up with an improvised piece based around my acoustic guitar part. Anton works very quickly and we kept on bouncing ideas off of each other. Taking it in rapid turns to add another layer to the track. While playing live I had been experimenting with a Fishman AFX delay pedal which creates these wild echoed loops, so we laid down a couple of tracks of this, my guitar lying on the floor with me twiddling the knobs on the old wobble box. Then, at Anton's suggestion I added some distorted bass guitar. I have to say that I was enormously impressed with Anton's musical invention. Everything he came up with - keyboard parts, strings, percussion, etc. - worked right away," says David J.Listen to the single here:
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