Divine Touch releases new EP 'Broken Silence'

The Denmark-born musician known only as Divine Touch has released his newest EP, “Broken Silence,” to the excitement and delight of an anxious, worldwide fan base. It has been released on the Ample Trace Music record label. The album is comprised of six original, new tracks by the famed composer of underground electronica, now based in London. Boasting a total playing time of approximately 35 minutes, “Broken Silence” is closer to a full-length than it is to an extended-play record, and makes for a comprehensive and remarkable introduction to this wildly talented musician.

A shadowy album with profound depth and a strong undercurrent, “Broken Silence” is evocative and stirring from the very start. Divine Touch himself cites as main artistic influences “various London underground genres, especially jungle, garage and dubstep,” as well as “a multitude starting from the early 80s.” Judging from the Gothic and dark wave nuances in “Broken Silence,” one can only surmise that bands such as Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Cocteau Twins must have been in there, somewhere, too. “A positive, melodic flow combined with an energetic, raw, dark edge is generally what makes me tick,” writes the artist.

Divine Touch has a hands-on, unique sound that bears all of the hallmarks of a tried and true audiophile, one whom creates in order to add art to the universe and make the world more interesting, somehow. Self-expression seems secondary to him, albeit extremely important.

“It was difficult to find music I really liked,” he says, “so I started making my own.”

Perhaps most shocking about “Broken Silence” is that it was composed overnight in a fit of monumental emotion. Being a man of action, Divine Touch did the proper thing and constructed from these feelings a monument in their honor, a veritable statue of sound. The following is a candid retelling of the record's inception from Divine Touch, himself, faithfully reprinted here in its entirety.

“I made the music for this EP during a single sleepless night to express how I felt after a friendship broke dramatically down. The title 'Broken Silence' signifies how the silence between two people who have fallen out has broken and is not easily overcome.

This release is for people who are not afraid to dip into their dark side to process painful emotions.

I also wrote a poem (which is something I extremely rarely do…) expressing the feeling of the music verbally, each of the six [stanzas] corresponding to each of the EPs six tracks:”

Emotions
Fractured
Heart
Twisted
Sanity
Broken

Reflecting
Squirming
Shameful regret
But
No way back

Felt
Not heard
Not one to hear
Not one to tell
Alone
In silence
Suffering

Shaking
Begging
Screaming emotions
Tearing silence
Haunted
Broken

Calm desperation
Holding on tight
Not to falter
Desperately
Breathing
Slowly

Bells calling
New day
New beginning
New hope
But no peace
Just
Broken Silence

“Broken Silence” by Divine Touch is available online everywhere.

-S. McCauley

Staff Press Release Writer

MondoTunes

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