By RAY KELLY
The Frost Heaves & HaLeS latest album, You Double-Crossed My Mind, is jam packed with allusions to Orson Welles with each track referencing the late actor-director..
The Western Massachusetts rockers will stage a four-act multimedia event with clips from Welles films to mark the album’s release at CitySpace’s Blue Room in Easthampton, Massachusetts, on September 8, Tickets are $5 and available at CitySpaceEasthampton.org. The album will be available on Bandcamp beginning on September 1. The event includes a showing of an absurdist film, Of Moths and Men, which was begun by singer-guitarist Daniel Hales and the late Brion Dulac in the 1990s.
“This ambitious multimedia show is a labor of love 27 years in the making. The film Of Moths and Men was filmed in 1996, but was unfinished until 2023, after the death of its co-creator, Brion Dulac,” Hales said. “The thematic thread that runs through the album You Double-Crossed My Mind is visionary director, actor, writer Orson Welles. The album is dedicated to Brion, longtime projectionist at Pleasant Street Theater, writer, cinematographer, and an aficionado of film noir.”
Of Hales, Northeast Performer stated, “Hales artfully plays with the duality of words in the English language, creating lyrics that are both smart and memorable.”
Rosebud, the first single from the album, and other track can be heard on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/dhatfh
Full disclosure: I had the pleasure to work alongside the band’s bassist, James F. Lowe, for years at The Republican newspaper in Springfield, Massachusetts. He introduced me to Hales fittingly at a screening of The Trial at Amherst Cinema last year. Anchoring the eclectic band is drummer Brian DiPippo.
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