The Secret Machines’ new album Secret Machines is out now on the band’s own label, TSM Recordings.
The band are unveiling a new set design on their current tour as well. Band member Brandon Curtis enlisted the conceptual talents of one of Europe’s premiere award-winning set designers, Es Devlin, who also designed Kanye West’s “Touch the Sky” tour last year.
“I am a fan of the Secret Machines’ work, having seen their Brighton performance online on the BBC, I was impressed by how committed they are to the visual expression of their music. There was a purity of idea to their lighting, practically the entire show was backlit with them in silhouette. I met Brandon and Josh in NYC while I was working on a film with Sally Potter and also on Kanye West’s tour, and we immediately shared a language of image and music and by the end of the conversation the show was effectively designed. “The visual elements are a direct instinctive response to the qualities of the music. The band will be caught within a Naum Gabo-inspired romboid structure surfaced with gauze and punctuated with radiating tensioned cables which will catch the light in a more lyrical way than a pure saturated block of back light – we might combine them and counterpoint them with pure blocks of backlight too. What the fans see will be a visual expression and counterpoint to what they hear allowing them the space to project their own interpretation of the music and the courage to intensify it.”
(photos courtesy of Es Devlin)
The Secret Machines Full Fall North American Tour
Oct 27 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theatre*
Oct 28 Aspen, CO @ Belly Up*
Oct 30 Los Angeles, CA @ Key Club*
Nov 01 San Diego, CA @ Belly Up*
Nov 03 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent*
Nov 05 Portland, OR @ Berbati’s Pan*
Nov 06 Seattle, WA @ Neumos*
Nov 07 Vancouver, BC @ Richards on Richards*
Nov 09 Calgary, AB @ SAIT Polytechnic+
Nov 10 Saskatoon, SK @ Louis’ Pub+
Nov 11 Winnipeg, MB @ Pyramid Cabaret+
Nov 14 London, ON @ Call the Office+
Nov 15 Ottawa, ON @ Babylon+
*w/the Dears
+w/Small Sins
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