LISTEN: Brooklyn’s Ambrose Getz Shares “Grace”
Anticipated debut LP, Great House of Embers, out November 2
With a voice reminiscent of Suzanne Vega, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Ambrose Getz aims to look beyond standard pop form and structure when making music.
“Can we make it unusual through harmonic, melodic, or rhythmic choices? Can the lyrics be about something outside of the usual love songs? That mindset is at the heart of this album,” she says of her debut full-length, Great House of Embers, out November 2. Throughout the record’s nine tracks, Getz showcases her aptitude in a range of styles in a style not unlike St. Vincent or Björk. Synths, strings, and electric guitars blend with jazz-inspired percussion as Getz’s capable voice delivers her poignant and informed lyrics.
Rock & Roll Globe is proud to premiere the video for one of the album’s best tracks, “Grace,” this morning on the site. An avid reader, one of Getz’s favorite writers is Nobel laureate Alice Munro, whose work serves as inspiration for the song.
“I wrote ‘Grace’ after reading the story ‘Passion’ by Alice Munro,” she reveals. “The story is about a young woman in an existentialist moment. I wanted the track to feel like a rush of blood to the head, like when you stand up suddenly, everything blacks out and you see stars. When I brought the song to my band, drummer Ben Silashi played with a lot of variation, almost like a solo. I joke now that this is really Ben’s song because the drum performance is so emotional — it has been known to make fellow musicians cry! The track also features distorted electric guitars fading in and out, and a beautiful string arrangement by Lisa Hoppe.”
Accompanying the song is an audio visualizer that enhances its sonic coloring with seamless animation.
“For the video, I collaborated with Bangkok-born, Brooklyn-based creative designer Nitcha Tothong (Fame),” Getz explains. “Fame is an animator and creative coder who writes audio-reactive code. Rather than create an animation loop, we wanted to emphasize the dynamic nature of the track by creating visuals that were triggered by the audio itself.”
“The visualizer animation for ‘Grace’ combines a frame-by-frame digital drawing loop and audio-reactive creative coding techniques to portray Grace’s emotional states,” Tothong tells Rock & Roll Globe. “The eyes are hand-drawn and illustrated with rough lines to conform with the generative graphics. They are the only tangible elements that communicate the emotions in the darkness by switching between direct gaze with the audience, looking away, and shutting down. The song is very dynamic, especially with the drum sounds, which are very effective with the ragged lines and graphics that audio-react to specific parts of the song, creating new emotions for viewers. The audio-reactive graphics were created in P5.js and hydra.js, my usual tools for which I wrote a custom code for this project.”
Listening to “Grace,” it’s clear the future of tasteful, nuanced art pop is still alive and well in the artistry of this rising star in the new music scene bubbling up in Brooklyn.
VIDEO: Ambrose Getz “Grace”
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