Opening with Dive Pt 1, a spectral and elegiac overture of guitar chime and strings, Jettison voyages through 40 minutes of sonic exploration juxtaposed with cryptic dialogue by American singer-songwriter, guitarist and visual artist Emma Ruth Rundle and Neil Fallon of US act Clutch. "I’d been working with string quartet and other instrumentation, and I thought why not combine them? Originally it was meant to be a ten or fifteen-minute piece, but it grew into something more over the months." "It kinda came off the back of the scoring work I had done for film and there was something about that alchemy between the visual world and the sound world that made me feel as though this would be something fun to try and do with the band. "I loved the idea of reverse engineering a score, flipping it on its head, and having Sam create the visual narrative to the music," he says, speaking from the band’s studio in Bushmills. The new multi-media project was conceived by Friers, who has done extensive soundtrack work, and brought to life by the band, orchestrator Connor O’Boyle, Belfast’s supremely talented Arco String Quartet, and Sam Wiehl, an artist and live event designer who focuses on the relationship between sound and image.įriers’ work scoring films - he composed the soundtrack to the Elliot Page film The Cured, which was filmed in Dublin - proved a jumping off point for Jettison. But even for an act who are all about catharsis and euphoria, Jettison really does let it all out. Past masters of exhilarating instrumental build and release, the fourpiece have previously dabbled in African highlife and Irish trad within the framework of their wigged-out polyrhythmic math rock. Jettison is an escape pod, a quick clean exit from the strife of the last two years and whatever may lay ahead, and it follows the same winding and uncompromising path ASIWYFA have followed since they formed in 2005. The band, whose name either sounds like a stalker’s threat or a lover’s lament, were never in danger of having a Spinal Tap moment. "That’s what we’ve tried to do with Jettison. "Great music, great bands, the people I love the most are the people who provide a place I can go that is different from my life," he adds. Haha," laughs Rory Friers, the unassuming guitar hero of Belfast mavericks And So I Watch You From Afar.
"At the end of the day, it's dangerous being in an instrumental band and to talk about writing our concept album. Guitarist Rory Friers talks to Alan Corr about escape, film work and being big in Ukraine Belfast band And So I Watch You From Afar are back melding brute force and beauty on their new album Jettison.
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