Arts Coterie Project Journal

How a little August release recap turned into a story about getting here. Greetings and salutations! If you are new here, welcome, and if you are returning, welcome back. I am excited to have you here in our very colourful and increasingly expansive Coterie world. Patrick is the name. The founder of the Arts Coterie Project, and I am also the voice behind Reverend Graye.  I am Gen X, which means I had the wonderful experience of growing up from the 1970s onward with what we now call classic rock, disco, new wave, punk, alternative and industrial music, along with whatever great Billboard hit happened to be everywhere at the time. My musical repertoire has only expanded since then. We get older, but apparently the goth, the raver and the club kid never got the memo. We get older, but apparently the goth, the raver and the club kid never got the memo. A Long Way from the Candle Stereo I still miss the ritual of going to Sam the Record Man to buy an album. There was somet...

Progressive Hook Records · After Hours HiGH VOLTAGE HOMOS step into After Hours There is a particular stretch of night that begins when the club is technically over. The lights are lower. The crowd has thinned. The city has gone quiet. Somehow, you are still wide awake, still moving, and possibly having a much better time than you were three hours earlier. That is where HiGH VOLTAGE HOMOS’ new eight-track release, After Hours , lives. Moving through deep house, trip-hop, soulhouse, dub, breakbeat and drum-and-bass, After Hours keeps its focus on the quieter side of nightlife. The record is intimate, bass-forward and deliberately nocturnal, built around deep grooves, restrained vocals, negative space and the strange clarity that sometimes arrives after everybody else has gone home. The album moves between attraction, solitude, freedom, intimacy and that unmistakable feeling of finding your own private universe inside music. The tracks Closer To You is pure proximity: an in...