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River of Shadows
Paul Amitai
Dub-inspired electronic rock that shifts from downtempo darkness to epic sublime.
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Everywhere & Nowhere | 4:31 | Play |
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Better Left Unsaid | 5:15 | Play |
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Underwater | 5:40 | Play |
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Rome Is Dead | 6:21 | Play |
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Keep It Like A Secret | 5:11 | Play |
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Last Flight | 6:14 | Play |
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All I See Is Clouds | 4:27 | Play |
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Sleepy People | 5:47 | Play |
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Description
Paul Amitai is a Brooklyn-based artist who performs as a one-man operation. With an array of digital and traditional instruments, Amitai mixes electronic music with avant-rock, soul music with dub reggae production, and darkly rendered vocals with gritty sonic textures.
As both a solo performer and a member of various bands, Amitai has shared the stage with a diverse range of musicians, including Run-DMC, The Skatalites, The Specials, Califone, and Crooked Fingers.
Amitai recently completed his first solo full-length release, River of Shadows. Recorded and mixed entirely in his bedroom studio, River of Shadows maintains the intimacy and detail of this working environment. As a biting portrait of a self-destructive culture, the album captures a detached, simmering mood of the uncanny, cloaking universal experiences within intimately spun tales. River of Shadows culminates five years of writing and recording, synthesizing the best material into one cohesive work.
Past History
During the early to mid 1990s as the lead singer/guitarist/songwriter of The Pacers, Amitai toured the States and recorded a number of releases while still in his teens. The group developed a national following, headlining shows at venues such as First Avenue, the Metro and The Rave. In 1994, the group recorded the full-length album Strictly for Lovers (Jump Up Records) produced by Fishbones Chris Dowd and recorded at Pachyderm Studios, birthplace of Nirvanas In Utero.
By the mid 1990s the group had split up and Amitai was busy studying film and sound art at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Work as a sound designer and studio engineer followed. Amitai scored music for festival award-winning projects by experimental filmmakers Cecelia Condit (Why Not A Sparrow?) and Daniel Alegi (Czar of Make Believe). He also worked as a sound engineer at Bionic Studios (Citizen King, Warner Bros.) on sessions for a diverse selection of rock and hip-hop acts. During this period, Amitai fronted the downtempo electronic group Jookbeet. In 1998, the quartet of Milwaukee and Chicago musicians recorded the full-length album Underneath the Winter Glass.
From 1999 to the present, Amitai has performed as a solo artist and in various collaboratives. Bridging the gap between the rock scene and the gallery scene, he continues to play clubs as well as alternative spaces and galleries, melding video and sound performance, pop music with experimentalism.