About Avalon Kane
Avalon Kane is an experimental electronic musician and songwriter from Kaurna Country, Adelaide SA. A guitarist, self taught pianist, and synthesizer experimentalist with a focus on sound modulation, Avalon has merged her love of Rock and Roll and Electronic music into her own unique sound. Her musical influences cover a broad range of styles and she particularly draws from Boards of Canada, Icehouse, Roxy Music and Daniel Avery.
About Stu Patterson
Stu Patterson is an experimentally driven multi-instrumentalist from Kaurna Country, Adelaide SA. With a focus of implementing physical form into composition projects such as The Empty Threats, Placement, Oil and more. Stu gathers inspiration from projects such as Joy Division, INXS, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds & Shame, particularly in their rich vocal style.
About ‘Red’
We all have two sides of us: the light and the dark. Not only are they both normal and natural to embody, but they’re necessary for us to fully experience what it means to be human.
Despite this inner knowing, we can feel a pressure to only project and accept our light, and when we do, the darkness we hide inside of us begins to manifest into demons. But instead of leaning into this tendency and continuing to bury the darkness within, Avalon Kane and Stu Patterson show us what it can feel like to not only acknowledge our demons, but care for them as an extension of ourselves in their new track, Red.
Red begins with a panning, pulsing synth that reflects the spiral of rumination that our inner-demons can reel us into. Stu’s voice enters, delivering an almost psychological lullaby that soothes and rocks these demons to rest… but it’s only temporarily effective.
The longer the darkness is suppressed, the more it intensifies. As it bubbles to the surface, the track and vocals intensify until they reach their boiling point. At that moment, the song bursts open into wide layers of synths, vocal harmonies, and haunting effects, reflecting the cathartic flush of red that stains our eyes and cheeks when we finally allow ourselves to fully feel, accept, and release our demons.
“Red is a true account of a really huge moment where I felt a huge shift occur that has actually been very healthy. I had something happen that made me so angry, sad and wrecked that I was crying, yelling and howling at one time. I was in my bathroom staring into my mirror, violently sobbing and my eyes were red. Just all different shades of red. As I looked at myself I felt the comfort in my darkness and I started to calm down. I realized that I needed to care more about myself than about forces out of my control. Then I wrote Red.”
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