Proximity Butterfly – St. Davide
"Album of the year abso-f**kin'-lutely"
---- Hua Cai / Painkiller Magazine
Where to get a copy of the new album in China??????"The Antikythera Mechanism"?: click here
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Himalayan Filmfestival 2009Carl Parker's "The Return" , filmed from 2005-2007, is an epic journey of its own kind. Unlike your BBC favorites, Carl rides, films, and produces entirely independent of any crew. He scales the western less explored regions of China with anthropological honesty... He captures the Zeitgeist of this niche and case of survival.
Directed and Produced by Carl Parker
Soundtrack by Chengdu's very own Proximity Butterfly (å˜è‰²è´è¶)
The soundtrack features Tracks from Arcana, Poltergeist: Cinerarium and The Antikythera Mechanism all available in digital and hard copy in stores throughout China and upon request at: [email protected]
Album information and links available at: Proximity Butterfly (å˜è‰²è´è¶) Official Website
Proximity Butterfly is a highly philosophically charged project that began in Chengdu, China in the August of 2003. PB consists of a drummer, bassist, guitarist, saxophone/ clarinet/ trumpet and eyes like angels coming from Canada, Germany, France and America. The story of the band expresses the maturity that exists in its seriousness towards the human subject. "It becomes the conundrum of itself; that which brings her flight and being." Joshua Love: "I left Cleveland with quite a large philosophical... dissatisfaction. I couldn’t really understand people, why they did what they did. Basically, people drank until they were blind, shot up, snorted whatever they could find, sucked down late night martinis and complained about their jobs being too hard or something... It showed me really what America had become... a place in need of a revitalized eye. I tried starting a newsletter and couldn’t seem to get anything musical going in that city. Everyone had a plan, but no one followed through with it. Seemed like the end of that life was about getting a job to buy things you needed to get a new job for... boat cruises and front lawns. A close friend of mine was pretty coked out all of the time and her house eventually became more trash and stains than anything else. She was still recovering from coming home to her previous boyfriend shooting himself in the face with a shotgun. The pill brigade was the direction everyone was going. So I went to California to breath..."
"I had been working in a self-built studio in Cleveland for 2 years and recording some ideas that I knew could get some dreams moving, but again I couldn’t find anyone to share this stuff with. So, I planned some volunteer work in Guatemala. When I got back from building houses outside of Coatepeque, along Guatemala’s border with Mexico, I realized that the kind of growth I needed wasn’t going to come from staying in the U.S. I quickly made arrangements to move to China, to relocate myself philosophically. I needed to challenge my ideas, my ways of living, thinking, and Being."
"After about a year and a half of being in China lecturing and teaching, the possibility of opening up some doors, meeting musicians, artists, etc, seemed all the more possible. And what was needed to begin was passion, creativity and people that weren’t afraid to just follow they’re creative colors... and that is exactly what happened..." We’re dealing with a lot of stifling forces in China because we’re both a local and foreign band... and it reminds me of a story a hundred or so years ago in the south of China a foreigner, walking to the gates of the city, was stoned to death before he even reached the walls... because he was not Chinese. We live in a world of hatred, and battling that with love and legitimacy isn’t as simple as it sounds... so we aim to keep our souls pure about what we’re doing and maintain focus on our goal, to build and be a part of community wherever we go.