Blind Divine
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Blind Divine is an American band classified as trip-hop, shoegaze, and ambient
. Their style is also a blended mix of genres, including dream pop
, Britpop
, and hypnotic rock.
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.
In addition to their own, self-released albums, their music has been licensed by MTV, VH1, A&E, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Biography Channel, Disney Channel, Sony Pictures, CMTV, Soap Network, Weather Channel, Travel Channel, Style Network, Comedy central, Noggin, Logo, E!, WETV, Animal Planet, National Geographic, The Learning Channel, NBC, CBS, and MSNBC, as well as appearing on the Taking Lives DVD, Clive Barker
’s feature film, “The Midnight Meat Train,” and composing the soundtrack to the independent New Zealand feature film Orphans and Angels.
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
. Their style is also a blended mix of genres, including dream pop
Dream pop
Dream pop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s, when bands like The Passions, Dif Juz, Lowlife and A.R. Kane began fusing post-punk and ethereal experiments with bittersweet pop melodies into dreamy, sensual soundscapes. The term was almost...
, Britpop
Britpop
Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...
, and hypnotic rock.
The music of Blind Divine is best described as "art music
Art music
Art music is an umbrella term used to refer to musical traditions implying advanced structural and theoretical considerations and a written musical tradition...
.” 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.
In addition to their own, self-released albums, their music has been licensed by MTV, VH1, A&E, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Biography Channel, Disney Channel, Sony Pictures, CMTV, Soap Network, Weather Channel, Travel Channel, Style Network, Comedy central, Noggin, Logo, E!, WETV, Animal Planet, National Geographic, The Learning Channel, NBC, CBS, and MSNBC, as well as appearing on the Taking Lives DVD, Clive Barker
Clive Barker
Clive Barker is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a leading young horror writer...
’s feature film, “The Midnight Meat Train,” and composing the soundtrack to the independent New Zealand feature film Orphans and Angels.
Members
- Paula Catherine Valencia - Vocals, Lyrics
- Daniel Martin DiazDaniel Martin DiazDaniel Martin Diaz is a Mexican American artist whose work has gained him international renown. His style is a combination of Northern European Art, Spanish Colonial Art, Surrealism, and Post-Modernism....
- Keyboards, Bass, Guitars, Drums, Effects, Treatments - Damian Demetrius Diaz - Guitars, Soundscapes, Bass, Drums
- Jacob Stevens - Bass
Discography
- 2000 Abstraktions, Vol. 2, Abstrakt Reality Records
- 2002 Purified: The Liquid Lounge Chill Out Series, Water Music Records
- 2005 Devouring The Beautiful, Mysticus Publishing
- 2006 Strange Flesh, Eventide Music Productions
- 2006 Desire To Destroy, Mysticus Publishing
- 2006 Music For Unmade Movies, Vol I, Mysticus Publishing
- 2006 Melancholia Box Set, Mysticus Publishing
- 2008 Midnight Meat Train Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Lakeshore Records
- 2008 Queen Of Venom, Mysticus Publishing
- 2009 Soul Retriever, Mysticus Publishing
- 2009 Breathing Spell, Mysticus Publishing