With the release of Pilodrift's debut album "Iter Facere", from Latin meaning to make a journey, Pilotdrift is quickly taking their following to the national level. The listener's experience throughout this album is a voyage through musical and atmospheric elements alike. Crunchy overdrives, brass orchestration, synth-experimentation, and a steering rhythm section are some of the elements that Pilotdrift uses to paint their canvas of sound, which covers both uniqueness and ingenious originality. Aside from the album's professionalism and character, Pilotdrift acquires this same type of integrity with their on-stage authority and ability to translate the album's intensity and emotion into their live performance through strategically produced and designed videos that coincide with their music, and through attention to detail and presentation.
Although it's very hard to believe that this five member crew of their early twenties has only been around for about a year, the deep-rooted friendship of members Micah Dorsey and Kelly Carr extend several years back. Through their early friendship and their experiences spent together writing and performing in other groups, their relationship eventually crossed paths with members Eric Russell and Jay Budzilowski. After recording a Christmas album, the group met the final member, Ben Rice, through the local music industry and since then has put their talents, desires, dreams, and determinations together to pioneer what is truly becoming a powerful and captivating musical experience. Although difficult to describe, their sound and genre is being compared to that of Pink Floyd and the Beatles, with obvious influences from Sparklehorse, Air, and The Flaming Lips, which are just a few of the groups that characterize Pilotdrift's sound.
With the completion of "Iter Facere", Pilotdrift is channeling the albums energy and originality into their live shows as they have begun to travel and promote the album since its release. Although the album's diversity and wide variety of instrumentation would seem near impossible to translate live, Pilotdrift's ability to cover all of the instrumentation and textures recorded in the album is what is truly amazing. In each live performance as the members of Pilotdrift so delicately scurry about their performance, the audience would surely miss something if for one second they were to turn their attention away from the presentation. With this truly original and remarkable album and its powerful entrancing performance, Pilotdrift is quickly setting themselves apart in the genre they are so quickly creating.
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.pilotdrift.comTrack List:
1. Caught in my Trap
2. Picturesque
3. Elephant Island
4. Sails
5. Winter
6. Rings of Symbols
7. The Meaningless Words of Bobby Baker
8. Doom and Despair
9. Dancing Bear
10. Science and the Enlightenment
11. The Undiscovered Epic of Walter Champion
12. A Traitor's Brain
13. So Long
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