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On The Table Read, “the best entertainment magazine in the UK“, indie band Seven Purple Tigers share details of their new EP, Daydream Echo Chamber, and what inspires their music.
Written by Austin Horn
https://sevenpurpletigers.com/
Daydream Echo Chamber
Seven Purple Tigers are very excited to be releasing our newest EP, Daydream Echo Chamber this November! After a long 2 year period of musical and personal development, we’ve selected five of our favorite works since 2020 to show to the world.
SPT is still a fully independent band, and every single track on the EP was self-recorded in our ramshackle studio that we built into a disused hotel restaurant. Writing, producing, recording and editing these tracks has been a labor of love, but one we are so proud to finally unleash into the world.
We have the incredible privilege this time around of having the downright sorcery of Sebastian Schütze and Bernhard Pausch (the team producing Shelter Boy) behind the mixing desk, turning our dusty recording space tracks into polished gold, and once again getting the smooth, silky sheen of Flo Siller’s mastering Midas touch.
Recording Music Videos
For the first time together as a band we travelled to Los Angeles to record music videos for our singles, “Clarity” and “Smoke Communiqué” with the amazingly talented Brandon Bernath. It was a pleasure to work with him and to watch his immense gift of directing others in real time. He’d wanted to push visual boundaries with a band and we were more than happy to be his muses, with Brandon’s vision being perfectly translated to film by DOP Rob Webster. The results are stunning and we cannot wait to release them for all to see!
Everyone involved with the shoot was so very talented, kind and colorful, and they all look absolutely stunning with wild makeup jobs done by CHAR and Charlie Lenny, and clad in the wondrous, imaginative finery of legendary LA designer extraordinaire, Gary Allen. We kindled wonderful friendships with cast and crew alike, and we thank them a thousand times over for not only their work on the videos, but for taking us around Los Angeles and making us feel as if the city were our second home. To David, Tavian, Talita, Curtis, Taylor, Nathalie, AJ and Natasha, thank you!
New Songs
The songs on Daydream Echo Chamber vary somewhat in style, but this is and always has been the Seven Purple Tigers way. We take comfort in such forbears as Bowie and Devendra Banhart in deciding to never shy away from a creative idea, regardless of which form it takes.
The lead single “Clarity” is a danceable piece of indie pop, while its followup, “Smoke Communiqué” is more of an indie rocker akin to our last release, “Ignorance Is Blitz.” “Dangerous Kicks,” already a live staple of ours for a few years, furthers the shimmering disco vibes, while “Time For Me” and “Tantalus” allow sonic respite and a look into a very different side of our writing and production. We hope that the listener finds it as much an enjoyable musical journey from side A to side B as we do.
The songs, as with most of our music, cover largely human themes throughout. Self-discovery and finding comfort in one’s identity as it changes and develops in adulthood – and the challenges that this entails for oneself and one’s loved ones – are present in “Clarity” and “Tantalus.” The inevitable shifts in our relationships and the need to continue on one’s path, even at the risk of leaving behind those we care about, is touched on in “Time For Me.”
Themes
Our human fascination with escapism and living grander lives than we have, chasing outlandish experiences if only in our mind’s eye, comes out in “Dangerous Kicks.” Despite the largely introspective focus of the EP, we cannot deny the tumult of the times we have been living in, especially in the last half decade, and we give a rare flashing of our political teeth in “Smoke Communiqué.”
All of these themes are seen through our eyes, our Daydream Echo Chamber, the result of Phil and myself (Austin) spending nigh every waking moment together going on 7 years, experiencing life and the word side by side.
Creating Art
As a band, we endeavor to create art in the studio, but when we take out on the road and hit the stage, entertainment is our top priority. It feels, at least in our estimation, that spectacle, grandeur and true interaction with the crowd are things that are lacking amongst acts in our genre. We take it upon ourselves then, to perform every regional festival, rancid rock club and local dive bar as if it were Wembley circa 1985.
Aesthetic coordination is of great importance, as is showmanship and making a real connection with our audience. We play our hearts out because we love what we do, and when we see people out in the crowd giving us that energy back, it fuels us to a fever pitch. Live performance is the single greatest experience in the world for us, nothing can come close to that high, and we’ll keep pumping music out until we’re as decrepit as the Rolling Stones in order to keep chasing it. It’s the marriage of the best of our international qualities that sets us apart – the American bombast paired with European class and artistry – a marriage we want the whole world to see.
Seven Purple Tigers
While we may hail from the United States and Germany, respectively, we see ourselves rather as citizens of the world, and it’s that transatlantic synthesis of philosophies and lifestyles that forms the core ethos of who we are as people and as an act.
Phil and I have been working together since our unlikely meeting in Krakow, Poland in 2015. That mystical, hedonistic year in the fog-enshrouded shadow of the Wawel Castle gave us a foundation that has lasted nearly 7 years, upon which we have built our own unique approach to music. It is an approach with naïvete, neither of us having formally studied our instruments, music or the recording arts.
It’s that love for music without a clinical eye that allows our writing process to remain a beautifully human, open, and often mystifying process in which we sit together, usually with guitars and a pad of paper, and in either a few minutes or a few hours we have a song which combines the best of both our melodic, harmonic and lyrical capabilities; something we have a blast fleshing out into a whole arrangement and tearing into live with the rest of the band.
We still rip into “Ogliastru,” one of our very oldest pieces from Krakow during every single live performance. With experience and more than 6 years of not only writing, but living nearly every day together, we have only refined our craft to create and release some of what we feel is our very best work yet, the five songs on Daydream Echo Chamber. We work not as bandmates, but as siblings, and that unity is reflected in our music and performances.
It it only, however, the very tip of the iceberg, and while the recording process is long and arduous for two people going it alone, there is an endless amount more to come. We extend the greatest of thanks and love to our listeners, our fans over these years, to whom we cannot wait to show our new material, and an eternal love and gratefulness to our families, who have supported this crazy Purple Tiger dream in ways we cannot even begin to describe. Enjoy Daydream Echo Chamber, and we hope to see you on a stage near you real soon!
About Seven Purple Tigers
Since 2015, Seven Purple Tigers have been crafting their unique transatlantic blend of rock and pop. In Krakow, Poland, Austin Horn and Phil Dyszy founded the band in a disused, historic German Inn turned recording studio. For their live performances, the band enlists a slew of guest musicians in addition to drummer Felix Schwer and bassist Sebastian Heieck.
About “Clarity”
‘Clarity’ is a song that has been in the works for more than two years. The riff for “Clarity” was recorded at the height of the pandemic in 2020. The duo’s interest in developing the idea further that day waned, and the project remained on their hard drive for two years.
During a search for old demos to send to an industry contact in 2022, the Seven Purple Tigers came across the project, titled “Nice Chords.”. Phil and Austin were immediately inspired. The vocal riff was conceived within half an hour, and the verses were written in no time at all. Following that first session, the duo returned to finish and demo the song in a 15-hour session.
Find more from Seven Purple Tigers now:
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https://www.instagram.com/sevenpurpletigers/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-tGAqGzOFrNMKZ2p3lJOww
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