Spookey Ruben – “Message 11”
A Spill Exclusive MusicΒ Premiere
Spookey Ruben (born Alan Deil) is a Canadian musician and experimental filmmaker. Best known for his song and music video”These days are old”, Spookey’s adventurous songwriting and eccentric production techniques often contrast high and low vocals, analogue keyboards, found sounds, sampled beats and stringed instruments such as electric and Spanish guitar. Spookey has released seven full-length solo albums and toured throughout Europe, Japan and North America. Spookey’s diverse body of work ranges from directing music videos to working as a pop producer, songwriter, remixer and film composer.
“This started as a random piece i was jamming on in the studio – I was teaching the melody to Esthero, she started ‘ba ba ba-ing’ along – Mati our engineer was just testing the room mics and had hit βrecordβ – it was all laughs – after a while i walked back in the control room – we listened back to some of it – i thought ‘oh maybe we could use a bit of it as some kinda interlude on the album?β – as i was getting ready to save the session I looked at the clock, it was 11:11pm (on the 11th of November!?@#$!!) – Whaaat? – OK!! Let’s dress it up as an ‘answering machine’ song, Call it β¦ . . βMESSAGE 11β π ”
– Spookey
Spooky Reuben
Modes III
(Independent)
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Tour Dates
TORONTO : MAY 26th : SMILING BUDDHA
w/ special guests: Adam VIII, Thuderclap!, VIP DJ set by Brendan Canning (Broken Social Scene) and DJ Greg Goldsack
OTTAWA : MAY 27th : THE CROWDED ROOM
w/ special guest: Riishi Von Rex
CHATHAM : MAY 28th: STUDIO ONE
w/ special guest: Nick WigChernick
Band Links
SPILL MUSIC PREMIERE: PETE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT – “SEA OF EYES (GLOK REMIX)”
SPILL MUSIC PREMIERE: KIT MAJOR – “POTION SELLER”
SPILL MUSIC PREMIERE: SUNNSETTER – “I FEEL EVERYTHING”
SPILL MUSIC PREMIERE: KYLIE V – “YEAR OF THE RABBIT”
