DALLAS KENT | Ghost Highway single cover artwork
DALLAS KENT
GHOST HIGHWAY debut single
out 22.08.24
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DALLAS KENT | Ghost Highway video
Dallas Kent is a collaboration between London-based composer/producer Ian Williams (originally from Canterbury, Kent) and singer Crystal Brown (from Dallas, Texas). It started in the late 2010s when Williams was looking for a singer to work with on some of his dark electronic pop songs, with Brown happening to live one street away from his studio in Hackney, East London. They swiftly recorded a considerable amount of material, but had to shelve the project when Brown relocated to the USA. The duo continued to discuss their options until finally, with Crystal settled in San Francisco and the pandemic giving everyone time to pause their normal lives, they decided to complete what they had begun so many years before. The first fruit of their endeavours is a single entitled ‘Ghost Highway’, which is redolent of Massive Attack and Ennio Morricone. A suitably David Lynch-ian video to promote the song was filmed by Brown on her phone before being edited as psychedelically as possible by Williams. Watch it HERE. Meanwhile, they continue to work on a full album that promises to be a mash-up of cinematic downtempo sounds, Americana, French disco and anything else they can throw into the mix. Watch this space… Williams’ recent solo releases include THE DREAM EXTORTIONISTS (2019), a debut album of dark piano and electronics; ALL BECOMES DESERT (2021), which consists of minimalist ambiences and warm analogue soundscapes, plus current studio album SLOW-MOTION APOCALYPSE (2023). He has also issued eclectic electronic soundtracks for LES BLESSURES INVISIBLES (2019) and LE MYSTÈRE LUCIE [DES ESPIONS CONTRE LE NAZISME] (2024), two documentary films by the French director Eric Michel, as well as a companion volume to the latter entitled LE MYSTÈRE LUCIE [DOSSIER SECRET] (2024). Examples of this work can be found HERE. 
DALLAS KENT | Crystal Brown (photo by Ian Williams) & Ian Williams (photo by Damien de Blinkk)
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