Label: Mysticus Publishing
Catalog#: MP024
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Country: US
Released: 9 Dec 2008
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Ethereal, Trip Hop, Ambient
Quality: mp3, VBR
Members: Daniel Martin Diaz, Paula Catherine Valencia
Profile: The music of Blind Divine is best described as “art music.” These prolific and experienced artists have embraced a creative style that is as unconventional as it is carefully crafted, allowing subtle nuances to collide with deliberate profoundness. Their “musical paintings” may be a thirty second interlude designed to lure the listener into an otherworldly dreamscape, where floating rhythms, ethereal vocals, haunting piano, or effected guitars become a palette of many hues, a sonic texture that conjures a visual aesthetic. While others embrace a mix of moody beats and emotional vocals, where the “art music” becomes the theme of an enigmatic dream that is as strange as it is inescapably familiar in a delicate and abstract world, imbuing an ultra awareness of emotion, love, hate, fear, pain, life, death, elation, or faith, and inviting the imagination to ruminate.
“It’s about the process of discovering the beauty in the layers of sound,” explains Paula. ”When I write lyrics and melodies to Daniel’s pieces I’m careful to record every note I sing. I capture how the song makes me feel at that moment. There is an unveiling that takes place, it’s truly magical.” For Daniel, “trying the create a visual picture, a mood, a moment in time without thinking about it too much is a challenge. I like to keep the instrumentation classic and organic. I play everything live and avoid sequencing.”
The first album, the 2005 release, "Devouring The Beautiful," was a definitive moment and a liberating experience, one that has brought forth a transfiguration of spontaneity and creation. In 2006, Blind Divine released two albums simultaneously, "Desire To Destroy," mastered by the first Grammy Award winning mastering engineer, Gavin Lurssen, and "Music For Unmade Movies Vol. 1."
Blind Divine is currently producing their upcoming CD, “Queen Of Venom,” which is slated for a fall release. They have also been featured on the soundtrack CD for the new Clive Barker film, “Midnight Meat Train.” In addition to their album releases, Paula and Daniel have written and produced the entire film score for the award-winning New Zealand feature film, “Orphans And Angels,” and their music has been licensed for many film and television productions.
In the past three years, Paula and Daniel formed a live band with long time friends Michael Glidewell, formerly of Black Sun Ensemble, on guitar, and D.J. Esparza on drums. Later, bassist Jacob Stevens joined the band, guitarist Henry Zappia would replace Michael, and Amril Fladoos would replace D.J. on drums. They intend to return to performing live when the new CD is released.
Tracklisting:
01. Save Some Love
02. Letting Go
03. Invisible
04. All Of You
05. Faces Fading
06. What Am I Supposed To Do
07. Justice In A Word
08. What Makes You Real
09. Words That Have No Meaning
10. Twist The Knife
11. Think Of Me
12. Disillusioned