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21st Century Art releases 2nd SECRET AGENT album, [REDACTED] with EX-PSYCHEDELIC FURS and ‘TIL TUESDAY MEMBERS.
Shadowy International organization SECRET AGENT invites you to experience an album like no other—a movie you watch with your ears, meticulously crafted with the intensity of a covert mission. A mind-bending rush of electronica, psychedelia, lounge and post-punk, all mixed up like double agents in a vat of piranhas.
Their second release, whose title is [REDACTED], has infiltrated the online streaming platforms in over 190 countries, alongside their 2020 album, DECLASSIFIED (Mi5/UMG). Special guests again include Duncan Kilburn (ex-Psychedelic Furs) and Robert Holmes (ex-Til Tuesday).
Written, produced, performed, mixed, mastered, and declassified by Bureau Director Frank Coleman, on his own 21st Century Art label, the project is an explosive blend of high-energy music, hardboiled dialogue, and postmodern conceptual art, treating sound as a canvas, reaching for a hybrid genre, like a graphic novel in audiobook form.
“I used the grammar of film in making music, and assembled the scenes from scraps of dialogue, like a ransom note,” says Coleman. “It’s not a puzzle to be solved. It’s a puzzle to be puzzled over. It’s more than the sum of its parts. There’s lots of room for interpretation.”
With its exciting mix of infectious rhythms, widescreen soundscapes, and sly, sardonic sound bites from 1960s Eurospy films, [REDACTED] is a bold sonic journey that challenges the listener to engage fully in an immersive world of mystery and danger – that rocks! The “Secret Agent Theme Song” is the first single, a Saturday morning cartoon anthem, turned up to 11.
“On DECLASSIFIED, I set out to make an album that was explicitly not a rock album, but had that rock energy,” continues Coleman. “[REDACTED], on the other hand, once again goes globetrotting, but it is definitely a rock album.”
It is not casual listening. These are not casual times.
Underlying the satire, it’s a call to renew long-trampled ideals of freedom and justice, casting light in an increasingly shadowed world. Dive into the darkness, and let [REDACTED] reveal its secrets. Will you accept the mission?
Available on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Instagram/Facebook, TikTok & other ByteDance stores, YouTube Music, Amazon, Pandora, Deezer, Tidal, iHeartRadio, Claro Música, Saavn, Boomplay, Anghami, NetEase, Tencent, Qobuz, Joox, Kuack Media, Adaptr, Flo, and MediaNet.
SECRET AGENT REVEALS BOMBSHELL ALBUM, “DECLASSIFIED” ON MI5, W/ EX-PSYCHEDELIC FURS, ‘TIL TUESDAY MEMBERS.
Recommended for fans of Massive Attack, Portishead, Björk, Chemical Brothers, Air, Thievery Corporation, Propellerheads, Stereolab, James Bond movies.
New York, NY (October 5, 2020) – Musician, producer, interactive multimedia pioneer and virtual reality artist Frank Coleman has been identified as the mastermind behind DECLASSIFIED, the explosive, globe-hopping debut album from shadowy international organization SECRET AGENT, on Mi5 Recordings (UMG).
SECRET AGENT is original music in the Spy genre, a mindbending, high energy rush of electronica, psychedelia, lounge and surf, all mixed together like enemy agents in a vat of piranhas. DECLASSIFIED smuggles you into the smoky private clubs of “Portofino,” plays cat and mouse with the police state in “St. Petersburg,” narrowly escapes an assassination in “Caracas,” and straps you in for a high speed chase through “Berlin.”
Naturally, a SECRET AGENT is an expert on the latest technology, and Coleman is an OG’s OG. He built the first interactive music site on the Internet, and has been working with Virtual Reality since the early 90s. He created the video for DECLASSIFIED’s first single, “Portofino,” entirely in a VR environment.
Coleman plays drums for ex-Psychedelic Furs guitarist John Ashton, and appears extensively on his album, “Satellite Paradiso,” which features past and present members of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Killing Joke and Gang Of Four. He’s also played in front of over 40,000 people as a member of Boston’s notorious performance art lunatics The Bentmen, called “one of the most outrageous rock acts in the country” by The Village Voice.
Ashton provided the mastering for DECLASSIFIED. The album also features ex-Furs saxophonist Duncan Kilburn, innovative electronic cellist Jo Quail, and former ‘Til Tuesday guitarist Robert Holmes, who takes a virtuoso turn on “Buenos Aires International Airport,” a track which Coleman calls “the ‘Free Bird’ of Spy music.” Seattle jazz futurist John Chmaj adds a wild, hypnotic flute solo and suspicious Hammond organ.
Sly, subversive and filled with hidden meanings that can be neither confirmed nor denied, SECRET AGENT’s DECLASSIFIED reveals more mysteries with every listen.
Available with complete dossier including raw intelligence, unredacted transcripts, list of suspects and surveillance photos.
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