XEELEE goes to A Place of Perfect Stillness with third single featuring Harrison White (Novena, Leprous)

When we premiered ‘Cycles’, the debut single from UK based post/prog duo XEELEE at the end of September, we already knew what’s gonna come of course. But today, we are very proud to finally unveil ‘A Place of Perfect Stillness‘, the third and last single leading up to the release of their debut album ‘consilience’ on Dec. 3. What makes ‘A Place of Perfect Stillness’ so remarkable? It is the poetry of guest Harrison White (Novena, Leprous), that elevates this song to a very special place!

A Place of Perfect Stillness is one of those songs that was written in one night, in a frenzy. It has a post-rock influence of a repeated chord progression that builds and builds until it explodes, but with the rhythmic influence of something like Dream Theater’s ‘The Mirror’.

We had originally though of interspersing the song with film dialogue (from Bergman’s ‘Persona’ specifically). After realising it wasn’t feasible we got in touch with Harrison White. Aside from his work in Novena and Leprous, Harrison is an incredible poet and was kind enough to contribute his words and voice to this track.

says composer and multi-instrumentalist, Matt Bearne.

Harrison writes:

“It was a welcome surprise when Xeelee reached out to me to write and perform a poem for their song. At the time it had no title, and was only an instrumental demo. Matt conveyed to me the feelings which inspired it and gave me free reign to write and perform with it. I have written hundreds of poems in my life, and accompanied them with my own music, too. This, however, was the first time someone had asked me to write and perform poetry for music that wasn’t my own. It was a new, and wonderful, challenge. I am grateful for the opportunity, and hope you enjoy ‘A Place of Perfect Stillness.'”

The video was done by Mikołaj Birek, a Polish based artist, and was selected for the Animator Festival in Poznań, and the Eter in Łódź, Poland.

Check it out now in our exclusive premiere, two days before the general digital release of ‘A Place of Perfect Stillness’ on all platforms:

Music video by Mikołaj Birek

XEELEE:

Inese Verebe – Vocals
Matt Bearne – Guitars, keys, synths, sound design, backing vocals

Guest musicians:

Harrison White (Novena, Leprous, Einar Solberg) – Narration
Simen Sandnes (Temic, Evergrey, Shining, Arkentype) – Drums

Produced by Matt Bearne

Vocals engineered by Michael Macdonald of York Street Studios in Aberdeen, Scotland
Simen’s drums engineered by Simen and recorded at Økern in Oslo, Norway
Mixed by Shelby Logan Warne at Sensible Studios in London, England

Mastered by Tony Lindgren at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden

Logo design by Anna Bearne

XEELEE (pic by Santa Dimante)