René Breton
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René Breton finds its music and visual compositions within the vivid and boundless terrain of the subconscious mind. Inspired by imagery from the French surrealist art movements of the early twentieth century, René Breton reaches beyond the current confines of rational thought and geographic boundaries to creatively represent an emergent, modern, cultural movement. Through their surrealist pop music and artistry, the band embraces, supports, and celebrates humanity on a global scale and invites its audience to indulge in unique, yet familiar, melodic experiences within every waking moment.
A chance meeting during a Thornton concert at the Basement in Nashville sparked the creative collaboration of Ryan Hurtgen and Tobin Sio. This spark grew into an inferno of ideas and drive, which saw the duo constructing studios during the day in exchange for recording time by night. Capturing their music on the fly – on a grand piano one night and from the exultant voices of a church choir on another – Hurtgen and Sio chronicled their musical adventure sound byte by sound byte on a portable hard drive. It was during one such impromptu, nocturnal creative session that Hurtgen showed Sio his inspiration for the visions of his songs: “Enlist” – the World War I poster depicting a dead woman embracing her child during the sinking of the Lusitania. It was then that they both realized their compositions had a surreal link to the ethereal, dream quality of these tragic subjects, enveloped in eternal green. It was also at this moment that René Breton was officially formed, and Asleep in Green was conceived.
Asleep In Green is a composite, conceptual experience of insight and sound. Twelve songs, twelve short stories, and twelve drawings meld to take us on a modern, surrealist journey, which represents the subconscious mind during sleep. Visualized by René Breton’s Ryan Hurtgen, Asleep In Green inspires us to delve into the depths of self-reflection without an intended agenda. It invites each of us to get lost in its fantastical ideas of abstract fiction and subjectively experience its creative body as a personalized, waking dream.
Asleep In Green is set for a Spring 2011 release on Fifth Ace Records