Posts Tagged ‘Oom Velt EP’

SALT CATHEDRAL – ” Travelling In Paris “

Posted: March 29, 2015 in WE LOVE
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Salt Cathedral is a Brooklyn-based experimental pop duo who originally hail from Bogotá, Colombia, Their name references a Roman church built in a Colombian salt mine. The title of their recent EP Oom Velt, on the other hand, is a phonetic corruption of the German word umwelt. Since we don’t sprechen sie Deutsch, we’ll take Salt Cathedral’s word that the term means the “individuality of experience” like how you and I could watch the music video for their previous single “Holy Soul” together but never get the same thing out of it. At the end of the day, we’re all on our own planets, man. Travelling In Paris is taken from Salt Cathedral’s ‘OOM VELT’ EP released 2014

“Holy Soul” has an ethereal, spacious quality with echoing vocal refrains that sound like a ghostly being talking to itself.  The video was inspired by the lyrics “I am a holy soul in a foreign land,” says co-director Bradley Tangonan: “The main character feels like an outsider, both at home and at the country club where he works. In the time he spends at his job, he imagines he belongs in this strange place as a way to escape.”

SALT CATHEDRAL – ” Holy Soul “

Posted: January 22, 2015 in MUSIC
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Official music video for ‘Holy Soul’ from Salt Cathedral’s new EP ‘Oom Velt’ Following on from the delightfully spirited “Tease”, ‘Holy Soul’ offers a further taste of their forthcoming OOM VELT EP, and what it lacks in BPM it more than makes up for in it’s effervescent display of both mood and texture. Gorgeously rich vocal twist themselves around each other, repeating yearning declarations of love and lust and riding high above a dynamic bed of finger-click beats and varying instrumental tricks and tics. The subtleties seem to bubble just close to enough to the surface to truly draw the listener in.

Despite the understated nature of these imaginative fluctuations, it’s within them where Salt Cathedral really come alive. “Holy Soul” is all the more rewarding because of the discretion it shows: a delicately-crafted anthem shrouded in disguise, nuances spread across a broad canvas. It’s a captivating addition to their body of work, and they remain one of the most enticing prospects around.