Sometimes an artist or band will release a new song at what is an opportune moment in a foreign marketplace.
The thought process behind ‘Glass Prism’, a single from Catch the Breeze that will also be an album track come September, is that (quote) “diversity has its roots in community.”
Diversity and community are two contemporary buzzwords in the UK. I dare say they are in the Nordic countries too, but I can’t speak for them as I’m not close enough to the streets there.
But I am in the UK, where diversity is thrust down people’s throats but that doesn’t mean it is beneficial to communities. Indeed, community ‘leaders’ are often the most divisive people you are likely to meet. We don’t have any Martin Luther Kings in England.
But that doesn’t mean I’m not open to any new ideas designed to bring peace to warring communities and the way that Catch the Breeze envisage finding cohesion is through the application of light through that ‘Glass Prism’, which at the same time bends the light into the different colours that constitute the ‘community’ and reveal a blue sky of hope for the future.
The message is all very positive and forward thinking but if you think it’s going to be presented by way of a soppy ballad, think again. These guys are hard alt-rockers who take no prisoners. They know how to lay down compelling riffs, solos and rhythms at pace and on this song they came up with a catchy, almost subliminal melody line that arrives courtesy of both lead and bass guitar.
In the almost three years I’ve been writing NMC I’ve noticed a commonality amongst Danish rock bands. They’ve almost developed a sound of their own which is distinctly recognisable and I’m not aware of anything similar in the other Nordic countries.
Kudos also to the production on this track, which was recorded in Feedback Studio in Aarhus, with Magnus Vad engineering, and mixed and mastered by Morten Bue in Copenhagen. It sounds like there are more musicians present than the three there actually were.
The single is out on 23rd August and Catch the Breeze will release their third full length album, ‘Hope has a Place’, on September 13th.
The band will be touring Denmark and Sweden in September with Film School (US).
The video for Glass Prism was filmed during the recording of the album.
Find them on:
Website: https://catchthebreeze.dk/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CatchTheBreezeofficial
