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Empty Promise 03:54
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You chased me to a shoreside town, Caressed by quiet waves of sound. To clear my mind was what I wanted, But packed inside my bag you haunted. Validate your empty promise. How can I embrace this empty promise? Holding out for love is just an empty promise. Your heart was forged, a metal mold, You'll never touch, you'll never hold. I give you all, and all you take. With every stroke my fingers ache. Validate your empty promise. How can I embrace this empty promise? Holding out for love is just an empty promise.

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Empty Promise is a social critique that uses human relationship metaphors to highlight our emotional dependence on technology. After working together at the 2015 Bang On A Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, musicians Pascal Le Boeuf, Sarah Goldfeather, and Robby Bowen met one fateful night in Brooklyn, and with the boldness of alcohol, decided to create a project by merging their collective interests. Rather than construct music to be performed live, they retreated into their bedroom studio with a two microphones, a digital sampler, and a collection of analog synths resulting in a sonic Frankenstein that explores the empty promise of technology and the way it prevents us from interacting IRL (in real life) by taking us AFRL (away from real life).

Similarly, rather than adapt their music for the stage, they engaged the video production team Four | Ten Media (comprised of Evan Chapman and Kevin Eikenberg) to bring their music to the screen. Empty Promise features all the above as well as cameo appearances by a variety of notable musicians from the New York creative community. Inspired by the work of visual artist Alex Da Corte, each scenario involves the juxtaposition of tech equipment to create dissonance in a series of normal situations.

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released July 28, 2017

Music Composed, Performed, Recorded and Programmed by Pascal Le Boeuf, Sarah Goldfeather, and Robby Bowen
Additional Bass by Tristan Kasten-Krause
Mixed and Produced by Pascal Le Boeuf
Mastered by Dave Darlington

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Empty Promise is a social critique that uses human relationship metaphors to highlight our emotional dependence on technology. After one fateful night in Brooklyn (and with the boldness of alcohol) musicians Pascal Le Boeuf, Sarah Goldfeather, and Robby Bowen created this new project to explore how technology prevents us from interacting IRL (in real life) by taking us AFRL (away from real life). ... more

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