(PR) Roseland, the new self-titled debut album from Tyler Bates and Azam Ali, will be released November 13. Roseland is the union between virtuoso singer and songsmith Azam Ali and accomplished film composer/producer Tyler Bates. Juxtaposing ambient electronic textures with intoxicating vocal melodies and driving hypnotic rhythms, Roseland’s music is the expression of a truly unique artistic collaboration. The two artists diverse backgrounds aided in creating this cd with its lush atmospheric aural landscape analogous to a dark, insightful film stirring many contradicting emotions like pain, bliss, sorrow, anger and surrender. While their music has been compared to Cocteau Twins and Siouxsie and the Banshees meets Led Zeppelin, no likeness conveys the cinematic essence of Azam’s haunting voice and evocative lyrics that reflect the sorrows of war, self-doubt, and the personal experiences and relationships which shape and mold our psyches.
Born in Iran and a student in India from age four, Azam moved to LA in 1985 and has become world-renowned for her voice that Billboard magazine describes as “a glorious, unforgettable instrument.” Azam has released eight critically acclaimed collaborative and solo albums over the past decade. Her latest project Niyaz the “world-electronica” group she co-founded in 2004 with Loga-Ramin Torkian and two-time Grammy nominee producer/re-mixer Carmen Rizzo has been hailed by critics worldwide as being one of the most groundbreaking of its time. Azam's immense talent and ability to adapt her voice to any musical style have drawn the attention of many diverse artists and film composers. She has collaborated with the likes of Serj Tankian of System of a Down, The Crystal Method, Ben Watkins of Juno Reactor, Buckethead, the world renowned Japanese group Kodo, and Mickey Hart. Azam's distinctive voice can also be heard on myriad film and television scores including Matrix Revolutions, The Nativity Story, 300, Dawn of the Dead, Alias, The Agency and Prison Break.
With more than forty film and television scores to his credit, Bates’ inventive style has become the visceral cornerstone of projects including Zack Snyder's 300 and Dawn of the Dead and Rob Zombie’s Devil’s Rejects and his forthcoming fresh take on the horror classic, Halloween. In 1995 Tori Amos personally campaigned to get Tyler’s band Pet signed to a major-label recording deal with Atlantic Records. Before the release of their album Pet had a platinum record to their credit for the song “Lil Boots,” from The Crow: City Of Angels soundtrack album. In 1996 Pet released their album and began touring with bands such as Limp Bizkit, Helmet, Blink 182 and Luscious Jackson. Tyler left the group in late 1997 to focus solely on scoring movies, and now with a list of impressive credits and a very unorthodox distinctive approach to scoring films, he is one of the most sought after composers in Hollywood. This fall Bates will begin work on Zack Snyder’s much-anticipated film Watchmen and Neil Marshall’s Doomsday. He is currently scoring Showtime’s new dark comedy, Californication, which stars David Duchovny, and Liquid Entertainment’s 2008 release of Rise of the Argonauts for the major video-gaming systems.
