DVEC an Accidental music career
It started when an artist over from Portland, Oregon, messaged me on Instagram she wanted some tips and a little mentoring. How to write an artists statement, direction. I am based n Huddersfield, Yorkshire I was playing around with some sounds and poems, I hated my voice so I asked her to record some of the words. She duly recorded and sent back, this was May 2018. We only chatted on emails, sending recordings back and forth, been on different time zones meant it worked to just email. I get up at 5am, work on some music send it back to her, and she would send some lyrics.
We carried on like this and by August 2018 we had an album worth of tracks, we really liked them so I started posting them around social media. We were getting a lot of likes and shares, not global but pretty cool for a fun side project.Then it was on LinkedIn of all places that a brand new label called Jynnji records heard a track and asked if we wanted to sign to the label. Eunice and myself, still hadn't spoken to each other, just emails. so emailed her and we decided to go ahead, signed contracts for a 3 year deal. Jynnji released the first album as a digital release in October and we were blown away to get it played on BBC radio3's Late Junction!
We released our second album in March this year as a limited edition cassette featuring both our art and this had a video and was played on Late Junction again. This to me was dream come true, I listened to that show growing up, that was my top of the pops!
We are now working on some brand new material that is reaching into Eunice's Mexican roots, it is a mad, exciting journey.
Eunice is also starring in a new film and has a job, and an art career.
I have a job, an art career and am exploring writing, currently pushing out a collection of short stories and finishing a young adult novel.
Neither of us can believe how lucky we are.
Oh and we still haven't spoken to each other besides on email.
Here is a review on our second album.
"DVEC are pioneers, exploring places so far away from the safe and snug bubble of all accepted musical knowledge that it can be scary at times for the faint-hearted. Once you’ve pressed play on the opening track, “Letting The Days Go By”, you will realize that currently nothing else is even in the same universe as DVEC, not even remotely so." Read the full review Everybody's Talking, Nobody's Listening
To listen to the Album Click here.
