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Grandchildren
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Grandchildren is an American orchestral pop band from Philadelphia formed in 2008. The beat-driven, orchestral-pop is due to Grandchildren songwriter Aleksander Martray. Grandchildren’s debut album, Everlasting, fuses tribal beats, frayed electronics, fireside folk melodies, richly-woven orchestral-pop flourishes and even field recordings from Martray’s journeys across Central America, the Caribbean and Africa. “The project began during my nomadic mid-20s. I was constantly split between Baltimore, Philadelphia, DC, and travels abroad. I think the music is a reflection of a young person processing their own coming of age through constant self-inflicted culture shock. The textures of the final album span time and space,” he says. “And yet, it comes across as one seamless reality. You can feel the influences but you can’t put your finger on them.” During this time Martray’s closest thing to home was a tiny third-floor bedroom in a dilapidated Victorian house in West Philadelphia known as Danger Danger. At the height of its illegal phase, this notorious DIY ‘venue’ hosted everything from IDM-infused metal (Genghis Tron) to frantic free-jazz (Marshall Allen of the Sun Ra Arkestra). These eclectic sounds billowed upstairs towards Martray’s makeshift bedroom recording studio, taking what began as a solo experimentation in dizzying new directions. “The songs evolved through the recording process,” explains Martray, “they were so layered that when I went to play them live, so muc
