Bach & silent movies: Dirt Poor Robins mastermind Neil DeGraide talks about Queen of the Night

There must have been something in the water in Providence, Rhode Island around 2004: Dirt Poor Robins emerged parallel to The Dear Hunter to go on a separate, but similarly artistic journey, culminating in their latest record and silent film, “Queen of the Night”. Mastermind Neil DeGraide told us everything about it!

Chapters:

03:30 A brief history of Dirt Poor Robins

13:18 Making a movie as an extension of the album

15:58 The Dear Hunter connection

17:40 Queen of the Night: Soundtrack vs. Score

22:30 The hybrid approach to orchestration

25:33 Komm Jesu: layering choral arrangements and adapting Bach

30:45 The average prog fan

32:00 Making a DIY low budget movie

37:04 The entire timespan until completion of Queen of the Night

42:28 The Patreon Community and upcoming plans

🎵 Dirt Poor Robins is:

Neil DeGraide

Kate DeGraide

💿 Discography:

The Cage (2007)

Last Days of Leviathan (2010)

The Raven Locks (Act 1) (2013)

The Raven Locks (Act 2) (2014)

The Raven Locks (Act 3) (2017)

The Raven Locks (Complete Record) (2019)

Dead Horse, Alaska (RED) (2019)

Dead Horse, Alaska (Gold) (2019)

Dead Horse, Alaska (Onyx) (2020)

Deadhorse (Deluxe Edition) (2020)

Anthems to the Edge of the Earth (Compilation) (2021)

Queen of the Night (Soundtrack) (2022)

✔️ Follow Dirt Poor Robins:

Website: https://www.dirtpoorrobins.com/

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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@dirtpoorrobins/

Bandcamp: https://dirtpoorrobins.bandcamp.com/

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dirtpoorrobins/

Spotify: https://bit.ly/3FIAJWn

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