Days Between Stations album and music video

days between stations will release their fourth album “Perpetual Motion Machines (Music For A Film)” on November 29th. The music video “Seeds” was released just this weekend

The music video for “Seeds” shows artist Jean-Paul Bourdier at work, altering landscapes, coloring bodies, marking film images, and playing with manufactured objects to see how they affect the visuals.

“Perpetual Motion Machines (Music For Film)” is the result of DBS founding members keyboardist Oscar Fuentes Bills and guitarist Sepand Samzadeh working on music for a documentary about Jean-Paul Bourdier himself in the mid-2010s. When the music was finished, the group was offered the opportunity to release their music as a “real” album. Sepand says: “Jean Paul’s artwork was our inspiration, and we composed the music to pictures and existing films.”

One song, “Being,” felt unfinished at the time. Oscar had written a melody suitable for singing, and “we based it on the general concept of existence and tried to bring in Jean Paul’s poetic philosophy.” Ultimately, the lyrics came from a more personal perspective: “Jean-Paul’s art has inspired us to do it, and we let the music speak for itself.” Pink Floyd backup singer Durga McBroom sings on “Being,” which will be released as a video on November 29, the same day as the album .

Produced by Navon Weisberg (The Voice Engineer, Puddle of Mudd), he led the project “as a fan. I removed the technical hurdles and allowed Sepand and Oscar to focus their energy on the music, thereby capturing their emotions.”

The album is dedicated to the memory of “Big” Bill Kaylor, who conceived early sessions of Perpetual Motion Machines and worked on the group’s second album, In Extremis.

Formed exactly 20 years ago in Los Angeles, Sepand and Oscar named the band after Steve Erickson’s novel “Days Between Stations”. Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief inspired the band to work on their music after using some of Sepand and Oscar’s musical experiments as the basis for “Saturday” on The Pineapple Thief’s album 12 Stories Down. The duo continued to work with a number of musicians on their first release “Days Between Stations” in 2007. Their 2012 recording “In Extremis” was produced by Billy Sherwood of Yes. In 2020, they released “Giants”, which featured Durga McBroom’s vocals on “Witness the End of the World” and was chosen as Track of the Week by Prog Magazine.

The band’s music history in films dates back to “Radio Song” (from the debut album), licensed in the independent film “Young, Single & Angry” in 2006 and then in 2023 in “Paul & Trisha: The Art of”. Fluidity,” now available on Apple Movies. They created the music for the Mexican short film “Y Recibir Tu Aliento” in 2017.

Perpetuum Mobile Machines (music for a film)
1. Waltz for the Dead (1:53)
2. Proof of Life (2:49)
3. Seed (2:39)
4. Unearth (4:21)
5. Break 3 (0:52)
6. Stone Faces (3:15)
7. Paradigm lost (6:24)
8. Ascent (3:14)
9. Being (with Durga McBroom) (9:00)

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