28 September 2020 - 0 Comments

DateMonthYear, the eclectic and forward-thinking music experience from Hamilton, New Zealand, is proud to announce the release of stage one in a new work, called The Exodus Suite, from October 1, 2020.

The Exodus Suite is a collection of five Soundscapes/ Ambient music’s with attendant video interpretations, which is being released one per month from October 1st. The music has been written and produced by DateMonthYear founder and mainstay Trevor Faville, mixed in America by Martin Porter, and mastered back in Hamilton by Andi Verse.

Faville explains: "The Exodus Suite evolved from leftover audio front the song Exodus from our last full album. Out of that audio I put together five pieces of Soundscape/Ambient/ Electronic music."

To make things more interesting, four of the five pieces have been given to local film makers with a brief to create a visual interpretation for each, Faville gave each director almost complete creative freedom- “the idea is to introduce an element of surprise and uncertainty - when the videos go live, the audience will be seeing them for the first time as well as me”

The first installment is called Wind and is directed by Matty Thomas Taylor. It is live on the DateMonthYear YouTube channel from October 1st. The following videos will be going live on the first of each subsequent month. All five tracks will be available from February 2021 as a download from the DateMonthYear Bandcamp page - but will be available for streaming at the same time they are released on video.

DateMonthYear continues to be a proudly independent music making institution, and The Exodus Suite is exactly the kind of creative project that DateMonthYear was intended to produce. The music is influenced by Horror/Sci-Fi soundtracks, Musique Concrete, and is a challenging and-hopefully! - disturbing listen.

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