I am the Dust, I Care so Much

On Monday we had our video shoot for VIRUS the title track of our first forthcoming album. We were blessed with exquisite dancers, make up and hair artists, the best director of photography in London and a studio space that provided the perfect atmosphere to make our visions come true.

The Raven's team is growing with people from all over London and even the world who have talent and ambition, a nurturing soul and who love to be part of great projects.

It's made us become more aware, that what begins as a seed in your mind can grow, if you allow it to, into something greater than you would have ever expected with the right people involved. But to get there, two main ingredients are needed - imagination and common sense.

As artists one is always graduating from one project to the next, gracefully moving on upward. Before you know it, you'll look back and think - MAN I did ALL of THAT?!

Yup. Because you cared so much and did whatever it took to get there, with a little bit of thought and a hell lot of passion.

Yea - we are a small band and a smaller label. But it's not about the short cut on how to get to your goal, it's the journey, the length of its path, the obstacles you gotta find ways to overcome, the love you share along the way and the hunger that never ceases to stop.

Creation began with God (or so I'm told by religious fanatics, God's just a symbol in this blog, we ain't religious by traditional standards) and now WE are the creators and masters of our own universes. Real conquerors began small, convincing people one by one of their beliefs, until they had an army of believers behind them, who fought tooth and nail for their leader. Those who became leaders always started with one pure thought; that thing they believed in most and never gave up on until somehow others believed in them also. Real artists who begin small, last forever, because once you plant a seed, it can only ever grow on, forever.

Thank you for being part of our music, our videos, our photo shoots, our press and our supporters.

Without any of you, we would merely be two people making noise without an audience.

Peace!

Bleed from Within

"... strip me from (beastly) bear (animal) skin, I have waited for so long, strip me from my breaths of death, I curdle you from within... " - N.W.

What can I say, but holy fuck it's real. That's right. The life we breath right now in this moment is realer than the skinny ass from some headless chicken waiting to be fried into a nugget and later chowed down by some fat freak who doesn't think any further than his own beluga blubbering flesh of existence... Oh wait, that's pretty real as well.

Lets count the ways shall we? The Unkindness of Ravens are a two piece electro rock band formerly formed in London. One dude's English and drop dead handsome, the other is a chick from somewhere in Europe who can speak a coupla languages and can't decide wether to be brunette or blond. Either way, these two sexy beasts are horny for music, girls and playing live shows. They want to do nothing more than to be creative every single day, for the rest of their lives, playing music, selling music, having sex with music and surrounding themselves with like minded people so that together, with this little growing empire, they can create the tsunami, stone cold kids have been waiting for.

We all like the thought of being saved either by Prince Charming, health insurance, a steady job whatever... As we grow older and the cynism grows like warts on the end of a junkies nose, we come to realize that really, we are all alone and we gotta fend and "save" ourselves - or else I'd like to think Jesus would have returned a long fucking time ago to "save us"...

That's the thing about Jesus, if there's anything we can learn from him - he literally sacrificed his life for what he believed in. He believed so hard, he got the ax, because he showed the world a different way, he actually had the balls of steel to say "yo fuckers, there are other ways to live your petty life, do it, don't be afraid, and stop being sheep!".

Yea - I don't wanna be hung for my beliefs and Ravens ain't interested in changing the world, but what we ARE interested in is NOT to be afraid, be confident and comfortable in who we are, loyal to our principles and not get bullied into anything we don't want to do.

It's a longer, less taken path in what we do and there's no rule book to guide us but the loins of our instincts (and vice versa).

We aim to set an example that anything's fucking possible.

And we hope you live your life by that motto as well!

Peace!