Beauty in Chaos share “Get Down Moses” from new double A-side single
Michael Ciravolo (Beauty In Chaos) (Photo by Kevin Estrada)
Los Angeles alternative rock collective Beauty in Chaos has released the double A-side digital single “God’s Gonna Cut You Down / Get Down Moses” via 33.3 Music Collective, with the “Get Down Moses” video accompanying it. The two-song single pairs a new version of the traditional hymn “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” with a tribute to Joe Strummer’s “Get Down Moses”.
Produced by Michael Rozon (Ministry, Jarboe, The Melvins, Wayne Hussey), the single was recorded, mixed and mastered at SAINTinLA Studio in Los Angeles and released through the band’s long-time home 33.3 Music Collective. Curator-guitarist Michael Ciravolo handles lead vocals, guitars and percussion on both tracks, joined by Rozon on bass, drum programming, synths and backing vocals, with additional vocals by Tish Ciravolo and Whitney Tai. Tish Ciravolo is also a cousin of Johnny Cash, whose 2006 version helped bring “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” to a wider audience.
The “Get Down Moses” video was filmed and directed by Vicente Cordero (Industrialism Films), with editing by Ryan Conlon. The clip features Michael Ciravolo (vocals, guitar), Tish Ciravolo (bass), Jewel Steele (guitar), Michael Rozon (drums) and The Sig Six Horns (Dan Schultz, Sam James, Billy Schultz, Rob Schultz and Alan Miller).
The session was shot the day after the “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” video, with Ciravolo wearing a “1977” shirt as a direct nod to The Clash and Strummer’s legacy.
Ciravolo explains the decision to tackle Strummer’s song in the same cycle as the Cash-associated hymn: “As with ‘God’s Gonna Cut You Down’, I felt a spiritual calling to do this particular song. I think Joe’s lyrics are certainly ‘timely’ and just as socially important as anything he ever did with The Clash.” He adds that while the video shoot for “Get Down Moses” looked lighter in tone, it “was certainly not meant to lessen the sting of Joe’s lyrical attack on governments, oppression and the Catholic church.”
About Beauty in Chaos
Beauty in Chaos is an alternative rock / darkwave collective based in Los Angeles, curated by guitarist and Schecter Guitar Research president Michael Ciravolo, known from Human Drama and Gene Loves Jezebel. The project took shape in 2018 with producer Michael Rozon as a core studio collaborator at Ciravolo’s SAINTinLA Studio in Sun Valley, Los Angeles.
The debut album “Finding Beauty in Chaos” was released on 28 September 2018 via 33.3 Music Collective as a studio collaboration featuring guests from The Cure, Ministry, Cheap Trick, Body Count, Van Halen, The Mission and others. A year later, “Beauty Re-Envisioned” reworked material from the debut through a series of remixes and alternate versions by producers, DJs and artists.
The second album “The Storm Before The Calm” arrived in 2020, again through 33.3 Music Collective, mixing gothic rock, post-punk and shoegaze elements and featuring contributions from Wayne Hussey, Ashton Nyte, Curse Mackey, Kat Leon and others. In 2022, Beauty in Chaos released “Behind The Veil”, an LP built around an all-female vocal cast, followed by the companion remix collection “Further Behind The Veil” later that year.
The project’s fourth studio album “Dancing With Angels” was issued in July 2024, expanding the line-up of returning and new collaborators and introducing HALO interludes co-created by Ciravolo and Rozon. In early 2025, Beauty in Chaos released the album “Signs In The Heavens Reality Upside Down” with guests such as Al Jourgensen and Cythia Isabella.
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