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If one always looks at the sky, he will end up with wings, a wise French man once declared. Halifax, Nova Scotia based musician Jeremy Costello had wings, long before he looked up. Wings of imagination. Brandishing in his head, transforming deep-rooted emotions into poetry and sound.
Currently part of Beverly Glenn-Copeland touring combo, since 2012 the Canadian self-releases music as Special Costello, a moniker under which he records solo or with local friends like Saxophone player Nick Dourado or guitarist Dave Burns. His lyrics are sincerely woven poetic enunciations that balance between introspective emotions and existential philosophical demands. Lyrics from a spirit that is in love without an object, unconditional, mirroring his very own subconscious inner being. The music reflects his tempers in
many colours. Glimpses of Synth-Pop, psychedelic rock nuances, traces of new romantic utopia, infantile Casio minimalism, Shoegaze haze, drama wave: Special Costello blends many styles, uniting all in his very own musing grandeur of pop music.
After an array of digital releases, Berlin based label Marmo Music now publishes the Special Costello touch for the first time physically fabricated on vinyl. Seven songs featuring the longing voice of Jeremy Costello, sometimes in correlation with spoken words and dialogues by noted artists, poets, and scientists. All creations have been recorded by himself between Spring 2017 and winter 2020, using the extrasomatic help of instruments and machines like Farfisa Combo Compact transistor organ, Roland JX3P polyphonic analog synthesizer, Roland D50 linear synthesizer, Roland Rhythm Composer TR-08, Arturia Microbrute
monophonic analog synthesizer or a Gibson Thunderbird IV bass guitar. In communication with his sensitive inner blues, they created an atmospheric voyage into the heart of Special Costello, that fulfils Arthur Russel’s sapient declaration: being sad is not a crime! Seven musical paintings full of inWmate, vibrant feelings and existential thoughts, veiled in an antidepressant neo new romantic glam. An epic tune like “The Next Day” sounds like Robert Ashley is meeting Hans-Joachim Roedelius in a psychic séance with Brian
Ferry. In comparison, a song like “If Not Depression, Then What?” grooves with a pulsating wave bass figure and an overall gently floating electronic majesty, while Costello’s voice takes deep listeners to an unknown higher ground. On the other hand, a composition like “Unseing” offers a nonchalant graceful funk drift with reverberant hand claps, minimal guitar strains and a chromatic synth pop grace. Above all the music Costello’s voice cries, screams, whispers, and weeps with a compelling introspective elegancy, that invites to associate intensely with the nonpareil Special Costello touch.
Michael Leuffen, Berlin, June 2021.
Credits :
composed, written and recorded by Jeremy Costello between 2016 to 2020 in Halifax, Scotch Village and Toronto (Canada).
Instruments used by the artist : Farfisa Combo Compact transistor organ, Roland JX3P Programmable Preset Polyphonic Synthesizer, Roland D50 linear synthesizer, Yamaha DX7 Frequency Modulation/Programmable Algorithm Synthesizer and TX7 FM Expander, Roland Computer Controlled Rhythm Composer TR-08, Arturia Microbrute Analog Synthesizer, Gibson Thunderbird IV bass guitar, MicroKorg Synthesizer/Vocoder, Electro Harmonix Small Stone Phaser, Memory Boy Analog Delay, Alesis Quadraverb, and finally, their voice was recorded using Shure Beta57A and AKG D 330 BT dynamic microphones.
Artwork pictures by Cher Hann
Graphic by Inkasso
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Mystifying in essence
life and love share a common bond
They are perhaps not for us to understand
We stare up at the night sky
Our corporeal form is our tether
to this
the nether realm
Were we thoughts alone we’d be everywhere
at all points in time
were we just star matter, quite the same
But we are coalesced,
bound together by a chance several billion years.
Nerves intertwined inside our bodies
brought these limitations to light
My resentment for this world
should have gotten me kicked out by now.
It took me this long to figure out that i had it all wrong.
So in silence I’ll see myself out.
I should check the address to make sure.
See if I’m in the right place.
“Can i get a cab to… oh nevermind.”
In silence, I’ll shuffle my way back home.
It’s far from from here but It’s a straight shot.
There must be more to see than the inside of these walls.
Or am I too afraid to admit that?
Of course I am. Of course there is. Off course I am. Off course there is. Off course I am.
What can they do if you shut them out?
What is love when yer lying to yerself?
How can one concern themselves with wasted time
when now is the only time we have
Your path is clear
You're drawing near
You observe the patterns
They reveal themselves to you
you are the will
You are the way
You are the blood
You are the tears
As strong as you are, we're just vapours lost in the air
As brave as we are, we'll just fall back to earth and blow away
Beautiful as we are, nothing can change the fabric of our small lives
Strange as we are, crude are the ties that make us all the same
Shake the nervous system back to it's first flight
Try to recall the very moment of your first awakening
They saw you there
You find it hard to car
I resent your easy joy
but I’d fight for it
you know you’ve gotta fight for it
call me a conscript
armed to record the voice of heaven
I’ve got some fight left in me
I’m a slow missile
a subterfuge attempt
slower than what they’ve seen
I’m in the long game
taking it to the streets
I've got some fight in me
self diagnosis
is as risky as it sounds
a scenic route around the truth
it had convinced
it had me entranced
felt the will to find the answers
seep slowly out of me
I’ve got some fight left in me
if not depression then what?
Is holding me back?
(offline, off the grid, underground
Far off from all of that
is where I find peace of mind
I don’t have much to give these days)
In the case of some flowers
the most elegant beauty grows
from an unrelenting duress
they trudge through the darkness
heading skyward to the canopy
blissfully unaware
of the constant danger all around it
singular of purpose
and unknowing its desperate odds
this is like your story
your like that
striving for a brighter future
while living beautifully in the moment
they will write songs about you x2
after man has come
and taken what he wants
through the concrete comes
the showing of it’s age
fractures that reveal a coming change
the steadfast and adaptive power of nature
laughs in the face of all our names
this is like of your story
it sounds like you
slowly pushing upward through the
weight of what came before
i wrote this song for you x4
If one always looks at the sky, he will end up with wings, a wise French man once declared. Halifax, Nova Scotia based musician Jeremy Costello had wings, long before he looked up. Wings of imagination. Brandishing in his head, transforming deep-rooted emotions into poetry and sound.
Since 2012 the Canadian self-releases music as Special Costello, a moniker under which he records solo or with local friends like Saxophone player Nick Dourado or guitarist Dave Burns. His lyrics are sincerely woven poetic enunciations that balance between introspective emotions and existential philosophical demands. Lyrics from a spirit that is in love without an object, unconditional, mirroring his very own subconscious inner being. The music reflects his tempers in many colours. Glimpses of Synth-Pop, psychedelic rock nuances, traces of new romantic utopia, infantile Casio minimalism, Shoegaze haze, drama wave: Special Costello blends many styles, uniting all in his very own musing grandeur of pop music.
After an array of digital releases, Berlin based label Marmo Music now publishes the Special Costello touch for the first time physically fabricated on vinyl. Seven songs featuring the longing voice of Jeremy Costello, sometimes in correlation with spoken words and dialogues by noted artists, poets, and scientists.
All creations have been recorded by himself between Spring 2017 and winter 2020, using the extrasomatic help of instruments and machines like Farfisa Combo Compact transistor organ, Roland JX3P polyphonic analog synthesizer, Roland D50 linear synthesizer, Roland Rhythm Composer TR-08, Arturia Microbrute monophonic analog synthesizer or a Gibson Thunderbird IV bass guitar. In communication with his sensitive inner blues, they created an atmospheric voyage into the heart of Special Costello, that fulfils Arthur Russel’s sapient declaration: being sad is not a crime! Seven musical paintings full of intimate, vibrant feelings and existential thoughts, veiled in an antidepressant neo new romantic glam. An epic tune like “The Next Day”, in which Costello’s singing links with thought-provoking spoken word samples, sounds like Robert Ashley is meeting Hans-Joachim Roedelius in a psychic séance with Brian Ferry. In comparison, a song like “If Not Depression, Then What?” grooves with a pulsating wave bass figure and an overall gently floating electronic majesty, while Costello’s voice takes deep listeners to an unknown higher ground. On the other hand, a composition like “Unsetting” offers a nonchalant graceful funk drift with reverberant hand claps, minimal guitar strains and a chromatic synth pop grace. Above all the music Costello’s voice cries, screams, whispers, and weeps with a compelling introspective elegancy, that invites to associate intensely with the nonpareil Special Costello touch.
credits
released November 12, 2021
Written, composed, recorded by Jeremy Costello between 2016 and 2020 in Halifax, Scotch Village and Toronto (Canada)
Instruments used by the artist : Farfisa Combo Compact transistor organ, Roland JX3P Programmable Preset Polyphonic Synthesizer, Roland D50 linear synthesizer, Yamaha DX7 Frequency Modulation/Programmable Algorithm Synthesizer and TX7 FM Expander, Roland Computer Controlled Rhythm Composer TR-08, Arturia Microbrute Analog Synthesizer, Gibson Thunderbird IV bass guitar, MicroKorg Synthesizer/Vocoder, Electro Harmonix Small Stone Phaser, Memory Boy Analog Delay, Alesis Quadraverb, and finally, their voice was recorded using Shure Beta57A and AKG D 330 BT dynamic microphones.
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