Los Angeles-based Experimental Post-Punk artist Crowjane has released a new track “Gallows”, featuring Blaine L. Reininger. The track arrives via Kitten Robot and turns on the idea of greed and the destruction that is causes in peoples’ lives.
Crowjane, aka Heather Galipo says:
The malevolence that greed can create becomes a defect for many people. When I was writing the lyrics, I just kept imagining the gallows in medieval France. I wanted to sing about what it might have been like to see the hanging of other humans. I started thinking about the different crimes, including those caused by greed, that might have sent someone to the gallows, and thought of greed as this weed that overtakes humanity.
She adds about the song’s origin:
I was shooting a movie in the Northern part of France and one of the lead actors/producers was a pianist. He started to play a beautiful melody on the piano that I recorded on my iPhone. On a different day, I was sightseeing at Mont-Saint-Michel when a choir of men were walking through the sand while the tide was low, singing what sounded like an old spiritual song with ties to a time of fighting. I recorded them singing on my iPhone. I knew I wanted to create a song with all these inspirational aspects of sounds and places. So when I was in the studio I knew I wanted to make a pretty flebile. Vocals and a piano mixed with experimental sounds in the beginning, using the sample of this French song…
“Gallows” was produced by Paul Roessler (T.S.O.L., Nina Hagen, The Screamers), who also plays piano on the track, written and performed by CrowJane (vox), and Blaine L. Reininger (violin, founding member of Tuxedomoon).
Crowjane has released several singles this year, following 2023 EP Bound to Me and 2020 debut album Mater Dolorosa.
CrowJane has also built a career as a professional horror effects makeup artist having worked on Mulan, The Orville, Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood, Civil Twilight, The Clinic, Don Quixote, Toolbox Murders, The Last Of Us: Part II, Star Wars: Fallen Order, among others.
