Bare with us, we usually do not post biographical notes about the beggining of a new project. But this one is worth it. We promise:
“Due to personal reasons, I’ve had a pretty tough seven or eight years. As a result, I haven’t been able to release any music to the world since 2010. It seems it caught up to me at Tokyo’s Narita airport in November of 2016; I collapsed. My darling wife spent the next 24 hours carrying me onto planes, doing everything in her power just to get me home.
For the past five years, I’ve run a business in the building industry, something I started to give me the time and funds to push my many creative projects, but ultimately, it was doing nothing but making me deeply unhappy. The first day back in Australia I decided to dedicate everything towards my creative projects; the next morning we closed my business. It’s been the most freeing and liberating decision I’ve ever made. Still been a tough year – a year filled with doctors and specialists as well as devastating lows yet incredible highs. The most important year of my life to date.
In February, I received second place in a competition run by one of the world’s most prestigious film festivals with over 16,000 entries and a judging panel comprised of Oscar winners. I submitted my screenplay ‘If You’re Watching This, I’m Already Dead,’ a sort of mockumentary/musical about a predominantly housebound musician. The screenplay was heavily influenced by my own experiences as a performer suffering from a debilitating anxiety disorder.
After a few weeks of moping around, I quickly became more inspired than ever. For the first time in my life, I started to believe that maybe I do have something interesting to say, and maybe there are others out there who would also be interested.
Honestly… I thought I gave up on music a long time ago, but six months passed by before I realized that the film seemed to be shelved for the time being as every day in those six months was spent creating music. I’d fallen in love with it all over again.”
These are the words of Brodie McKay. He just created a new musical project entitled Brodie Trent. The debut single is a wonderous song entitled Phoenix James. A track that the more we listen to, the more we can’t get out of. Indietronic, experimental and at the same time so honest and dear to elements of indie rock. Brodie personally played, recorded, and mixed every element in the track.
It was produced by the master Greg Calbi (David Bowie, Arcade Fire, Tame Impala, etc.) which also may explain some part of its geniality. But damn. So good it actually heals and hurts and the same time. This is one of those tracks we wish we had created. Everything makes sense. And the 80’s feeling behind it all, is just the cherry on top. Here it is, you should increase the volume:
Brodie is working closely with François Tetaz (Gotye). And that just makes a lot of sense as this certainly reminds us bits of Gotye magical compositions.
“It’s just a fun little tune to get the ball rolling; there’s so much more to come.”