Bastille Day (Serpent Single), by Black Tape For A Blue Girl

Bastille Day (Serpent Single)

by Black Tape For A Blue Girl

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dj-tim-tim Beautiful! Dark Americana! Favorite track: The Scavenger’s Daughter — 2022 Serpent Version.

Patrick Lynch The original version of this song remains incredibly moving. The 2022 version builds on that with the male lead vocal and the lush elegiac cello work. My heart belongs to the original which will probably be played at my funeral, but this new take will get lots of play while I'm working on a painting this next month. It possesses its own beauty. Favorite track: Bastille Day, 1961 — 2022 Serpent Version.

Scott as moving as the original recordings

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	1.	Bastille Day, 1961 — 2022 Serpent Version 05:49		buy track
	2.	The Scavenger’s Daughter — 2022 Serpent Version 05:40		buy track

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Black Tape For A Blue Girl’s 2022 “Serpent” line-up releases ephemeral reconceptualizations of two songs from our 2002 album THE SCAVENGER BRIDE; this opening of the gates drives the tracks deeper in a neoClassical darkwave direction. Songwriter/synthesist Sam Rosenthal joins with passionate baritone Jon DeRosa (Aarktica) and soulful cellist Henrik Meierkord.

The dark and emotional performances lend themselves to the lyrical reverie upon life’s disappointment and regrets, seeking a purpose, a meaning, a frame for the catastrophe of time’s passage. Jon's vocals embody a pensive mature beauty, the expressive confessions of a lone voice, singing out to a vast uncaring void. Henrik’s dense undulating strings dissolve and drift, detailing an engulfing spectral realm.

Revisiting old songs — releasing new versions of them — is fertile ground for post-modern discussions: putting perspective on a text, the construction of meaning… and in this sense we find a deeper purpose. The act of remaking the songs is functionally similar to what the lyrics explore. Rumination is found in every facet of these tracks. Echoes of the past haunt these stories, reflecting back and forward upon the narrative, drawing towards a moment of transcendence where the songs ask the listener to explore the disappointments of life in the midst of the beauty, and the absurdity, with the recognition that love is the crowning achievement. A final realization that life is bittersweet, but love is worth the price.

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released November 4, 2022

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Jon DeRosa • vocals
Henrik Meierkord • strings
Sam Rosenthal • electronics
Vicki Richards • violin textures on #2

Limited edition Greek-releases LP of THE SCAVENGER BRIDE available in two color options: blacktapeforabluegirl.bandcamp.com/album/the-scavenger-bride

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Black Tape For A Blue Girl creates darkwave, ethereal, neoclassical, ambient, goth albums. This page also includes my ambient/electronic music, as well as side-projects. Thanks for listening. Sam

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