8 Tracks – Katie Gately
Ahead of her forthcoming release on Blue Tapes (made only with the human voice), Katie Gately has let us in on the influences that have helped her form her extremely unique sound.
The result of all these influences is Pipes, a piece that is both concise and ambitious. A 22nd Century pop song made out of nothing but the massed tones of the human voice, so complex that it took six painstaking months to assemble, but dropkicks the seratonin-releasing pleasure centres of the brain like the most immediate and narcotic of pop hits.Synthesizers have been superseded by lungs, and soundscapes are no longer programmed, but can be projected into the air at the speed of thought.
If I could only listen to one song for the rest of time, it would be this one. You just can’t sing like this if your heart isn’t totally open. Otis Redding makes me want to be a better person.
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