Featuring Kendra Morris, ‘White Noise’ is the first single taken from ‘Hotel PM’, the debut solo LP from Brooklyn-based musician/producer Peter Matson, co-leader of Underground System.
‘White Noise’ is a tune that goes on a journey. Musically speaking, a disco banger that is every bit as insistent and punchy as it is late night hazy and dance floor instigating. Kinetic percussion, synths, guitars and the brilliant string arranging of Sly5thAve layer in and out on top of the distinctly New York feeling rhythm section of Vito Roccoforte on drums and Mattie Safer on bass (bandmates from Poolside and The Rapture, and Brooklyn studiomates of Peter).
While the tune was originally a demo Peter sketched out in Mexico City and re-built slowly with the live instrumentation in mind, it sat idle for some time until Kendra Morris knocked it out of the park with her vocal performance and clicked everything about the song into place. Kendra is a Colemine recording artist and known for her stellar work in the modern soul, rock, and r&b spaces, but the mirror ball proves to light her up just the same, and the ‘White Noise’ echoes of Donna Summer-esque vocal range combined with the lyrical content is as fresh as it is classic.
Says Kendra:
“I was totally inspired both melodically and lyrically by Peter Matson’s disco palette of sound he created. I imagined being trapped inside an old television in the 70’s wearing a fur coat and trying to sell stereos on late night programming. The song is about those weird and wonderful nights out that really seem to begin after the rest of the world goes to bed.”
Listen to ‘White Noise’ here
Press Release courtesy of Only Good Stuff
