Faith and the Vessel

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1.	Nosebleed 04:16		buy track
2.	The Line 04:34	info
3.	BB/Heart+Soul 04:27		buy track
4.	Struggle (But I'll Try) 04:17		buy track
5.	Bystander (Everyone's Dead) 05:42		buy track
6.	Kinoteki & Avenade - Foreverfaith 04:19		buy track
7.	Faith's Theme (Stay Still) 04:09		buy track

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Welcome to The Vessel.

"Faith and the Vessel" marks the first project in Kinoteki's new creative initiative, "The Sacred Vessel Program", aiming to detail the many sides and many lives of the [somewhat] fictional cultural capital known as "The Vessel".

Living in the Nosebleeds, a run-down public housing block in the center of The Vessel, the titular character Faith finds herself wishing for a way out in spite of her own delusions. Through her attempted escape ("The Line"), she finds herself in the hands of Sacred Vessel's militia, Vessel Industries, the authority in control of the city, repeating the endless cycle of escape, capture, and release. With the sinister mood setter in "Nosebleed", the explosively manic "The Line", or the melancholic dread present on "Bystander", the idea of The Vessel couldn't feel more alive.

"The idea of The Vessel, just the fact that it could be real, but probably shouldn't, has been haunting me everywhere I go. Whether I'm hating my life shopping for family in Midtown, or I'm shooting the shit with friends while we all devour Chinese in Flushing, all that's on my mind is "The Vessel"; where everything should be, who runs this place, etc. All the little different elements of The Vessel, all the little intricacies of a place like that, I know them all, they're all there for me, in my head. It got to the point where I just started hallucinating the world, my life, as if I was really in The Vessel instead of NYC. Just something about it, it feels real to me. I would've written a whole book about it if not for the fact I'm a terrible writer, so I wanted to tell the story of this world in the best way I could; with music."

Draped in Kinoteki’s signature melancholic sound, "Faith and the Vessel" finds the New York-based producer looking forward by embracing the past, implementing the sounds of early dubstep, purple sound, and post-dubstep under the backbone of skittering footwork-influenced rhythms. Much like 2023’s "Dawn of the Final Hour" and 2022’s "Silence Kills" (a collaborative album with Kinoteki’s biggest hater, Kelbin), Kinoteki finds solid ground for yet another evolution in sound, in turn setting the stage for their new creative vision.

"There's more where this came from. This project isn't just a one and done, and neither is my more or less "new" sound. I haven't done an ultra-focused project like this in a while, usually I'm all over the place, but the idea of sticking to one thing for a while and perfecting it is super enticing to me. Even though I'm technically sticking to one "genre" (footwork, juke, whatever the fuck you wanna call it), that doesn't mean I'm giving up on variety. I'm sticking to a sound, not a genre."

Faith and the Vessel releases on January 5th, 2024.

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released January 5, 2024

Cover art and art direction by Kelbin:
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Track art for "The Line" by DENPArin:
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Mixed and mastered by Phonebox and Moa:
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