PUNCH UP RECORDS - PRESS RELEASE
PUNCH002
Punch Up Records are proud to announce that they will be releasing PUNCH002 - Desert Raven’s ‘Doina’ - on the 22nd January 2021, in digital formats. Bandcamp or Beatport are our preferred digital download platforms, and streaming will be available on all the usual platforms.
Contact Details
email Ian & Ed at punchuprecords@gmail.com
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soundcloud: punchuprecords
DESERT RAVEN
Desert Raven is a musical artist who, for his whole life, has had a deep affinity to dance, to the harmonic and melodic nature of sound, and to the healing and inspiring power of music.
He seeks to create soundscapes with depth and layering of emotion, with extended build-ups and climaxes. He works with music that is primarily longer form and believes that, like our own deeper feelings, good, deep music takes time to surface.
His DJ style covers multiple genres, from deep house to ethnic/organic house to melodic house progressive house to melodic techno. Overall, he seeks to bring the audience close, making even larger events feel like an intimate party among close friends and family, where trust, love, and freedom of spirit are paramount.
His personal approach to composition and production is to infuse deeper, more ambient sounds into all he does, to evoke nature and dreams. He believes ethnic, traditional instruments should be used as much as possible and that they can work beautifully with well-crafted electronic sounds. A bass player at heart, he seeks to create rhythm and harmony that penetrates to the heart and brings the heart of the listener and dancer to a level of energy in sync with, as mentioned earlier, deep feelings. He seeks to find and bring the listener to a place of natural, spiritual illumination, where the listener encounters healing, encouragement, and divine purpose.
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What Do We Think It Sounds Like?
Genre: Organic House, Downtempo, Organica, World.
Doină is Desert Raven's debut release on Punch Up Records. The song is an ethnic-flavored organic house track with a rich palette of musical color and storytelling. Desert Raven was inspired by the musical traditions of Romanian doină and Jewish klezmer laments and dances. The haunting vocals, ever-building energy, and powerful climax of emotion bring you back from the distant past right to the immediate present. Desert Raven and Punch Up hope that this epic, bittersweet electronic hymn gives the listener hope that these dark days shall soon pass, and we will be reunited on dancefloors once more, where we will celebrate the triumph of love and life over loss and death. We wish you love, life and happiness.
📜BACKSTORY, as told by Desert Raven:
Life is bittersweet. Struggles and lamentations mixed with happier, easier times...It began on a winter night last year as an idea while falling asleep to a Romanian traditional song. I was feeling some sadness, regret, and fear in my heart, a bit overwhelmed by life and dealing with fears and regrets. I was reading the Old Testament in the Bible, transported to the time of the Israelites' captivity in Bablyon...when times are bad, remember that you are suffering with your ancestors and with your family today...you are not alone, and there will be a brighter, love-filled, happier day to come, even if it is in the next life...and that day will be eternal...
What Do ‘They’ Think It Sounds Like?
“I really like this arranagement and it sounds so unique. Quality production.” Yasin-B
“I really dig the Oriental part of the track, it takes off with all the North africa and Middle East vibes!” Closing Sounds
“Nice evocative vibes” The Slow Music Movement
