Los Angeles, California based Progressive Post-Rockers Days Between Stations published the official video for the single “Being” feat. Durga McBroom and taken from upcoming new album “Perpetual Motion Machines (Music for a Film)” due out on November 29, 2024. Watch the video through the YouTube player below:
“Perpetual Motion Machines” is the result of DBS founding members keyboardist Oscar Fuentes Bills and guitarist Sepand Samzadeh working on the music for a documentary film about Jean-Paul Bourdier in the mid-2010s. As the music reached completion, the group was offered the opportunity to release their music as a “proper” album. Sepand says: “Jean Paul’s artwork was our muse, and we scored the music to pictures and to existing films.” Ultimately the changing roster of film producers developed new goals for their project, and the band focused on turning “Perpetual Motion Machines” into an album now available digitally, on CD, and vinyl.
“Being” felt unfinished when the group decided to release this music as an album. Oscar had written a melody that lent itself to vocals, and “we based them around the general concept of existence and trying to inject Jean Paul’s poetic philosophy.” Ultimately, the lyrics came from a more personal place, “this is what Jean-Paul’s art inspired us to do, and we let the music speak for itself.” Pink Floyd backup vocalist 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, who helmed the project “as a fan. I removed the technical hurdles and allowed Sepand and Oscar to focus their energy on the music, allowing their emotions to be captured.”
The album is dedicated to the memory of “Big” Bill Kaylor who engineered 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.” The Pineapple Thief’s Bruce Soord inspired the band to work on their music after he used some of Sepand and Oscar’s musical experiments as the basis for “Saturday” on The Pineapple Thief’s “12 Stories Down” album. The duo continued to work with a range of musicians on what became their first release, “Days Between Stations,” in 2007. Their 2012 recording “In Extremis” was produced by Yes’ Billy Sherwood. In 2020 they released “Giants,” which included vocals from Durga McBroom on “Witness the End of the World.”
The band has a history of music in films-dating 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 featured on Apple Movies. They created the score for a short Mexican movie, “Y Recibir Tu Aliento” in 2017.
Purchase the album here: www.daysbetweenstations.com/product-category/perpetual-motion-machines/
Tracklist:
01. Waltz for the Dead (1:53)
02. Proof of Life (2:49)
03. Seeds (2:39)
04. Unearth (4:21)
05. Intermission 3 (0:52)
06. Stone Faces (3:15)
07. Paradigm Lost (6:24)
08. Ascend (3:14)
09. Being (featuring Durga McBroom) (9:00)
Lineup:
Sepand Samzadeh / Guitars
Oscar Fuentes Bills / Keyboards, Backing vocals (9)
With:
Durga McBroom (Pink Floyd, Steve Hackett, Dave Kerzner) / Vocals (9)
Scott Connor / Drums (9)
Navon Weisberg / Drum Programming (1, 2, 6, 7)