Gitane Demone & Paul Roessler have just released the digital-only “The April First / Feather Remix EP” on Dark Vinyl Records. The four-track EP is available on Bandcamp and major streaming platforms and follows the duo’s 2023 album “The New Young Kings Of Midnight” with two remixes by Brent Heinze of Probe 7 and the original album versions of “April First” and “Feather”.

The remix “April First (Probe 7 Mix)” is also available on YouTube.

About Gitane Demone & Paul Roessler

Gitane DeMone (often styled Gitane Demone) is an American singer, musician and visual artist, born in San Francisco and musically rooted in Los Angeles, where she became known through work with deathrock and gothic rock group Christian Death after being active in Pompeii 99. From the late 1980s she developed a solo catalogue that blended punk, gothic rock, experimental music and jazz-inflected vocal styles, issuing recordings such as “A Heavenly Melancholy”, “Lullabies for a Troubled World”, “Am I Wrong?”, “Stars of Trash” and “The Reflecting Shadow”.

Her later projects include the Gitane DeMone Quartet with Rikk Agnew, Paul Roessler and Deb Venom, with releases like “Past the Sun” and “Substrata Strip”.

Roessler is an American keyboardist, composer and producer born in New Haven, Connecticut, long active in the Los Angeles punk and experimental scenes. He first gained visibility with electropunk band The Screamers before playing in groups including Twisted Roots, 45 Grave, Nervous Gender and projects with Nina Hagen, Pat Smear, Mike Watt and others. Alongside his performance work, he has built an extensive solo carreer with albums such as “Abominable”, “The Arc”, “Match Girl”, “The Turning of the Bright World” and the multi-part cycle “The Drug Years”. Roessler is also active as a producer and engineer at Kitten Robot Studios in Los Angeles.

The collaboration between DeMone and Roessler culminated in the joint album “The New Young Kings Of Midnight”, released on 8 December 2023 as a CD and digital set via Dark Vinyl.

With “The April First / Feather Remix EP”, DeMone and Roessler continue that collaboration by revisiting two key album tracks through the lens of Heinze’s Probe 7 remixes.

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Genre/Influences: Neo-Classic, Experimental.

Format: Digital, CD.

Background/Info: “The New Young Kings Of Midnight” was released by the end of 2023 resulting from a collaboration between famous vocalist Gitane Demone and Paul Roessler (who played with multiple great Punk- and other artists). This is a work about ‘death, mourning, transience and farewell’ and dedicated to their two friends Rozz Williams (Christian Death) and Darby Crash (The Germs).

Content: We’re listening to an intimate and poignant work featuring at one side the mysterious, and unique, vocals of Gitane Demone and at the other side Paul Roessler’s delicate music, accomplished with mainly piano but also cello.

+ + + : When you know the album has been dedicated to two friends who passed away by suicide you can get an idea about the emotional content behind this production. Both artists are totally complementary; creating an artistic symbiosis between excelling vocals -and poignant lyrics, and melancholic music parts. I like the album for its sensitive format. Gitane Demone’s timbre of voice remains a very unique experience.

– – – : This is an album you’ve to discover in the right circumstances. This is not a bite-sized piece of music.

Conclusion: A work filled with emotion and devotion; an artistic fusion between vocals and acoustic instruments.

Best songs: “April First”, “The New Young King Of Midnight”.

Rate: 7½ .

Artists: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100013501260047 / www.facebook.com/paul.roessler.3

Label: www.darkvinyl.de / www.facebook.com/darkvinylrecords

Side-Line covered the album’s release in a separate announcement.

Listen to “The New Young Kings Of Midnight”:

About Gitane Demone & Paul Roessler

Gitane Demone, former singer of Christian Death alongside Rozz Williams, teamed up with Paul Roessler, known for his work with 45Grave and the Gitane Demone Quartet, on “The New Young Kings of Midnight”. The album originated in 2017, when Demone asked Roessler to write orchestral music for a tribute to Williams, tracing his early life and rise to stardom before his death by suicide. Roessler, who had lost his friend Darby Crash of The Germs to suicide as well, joined her in exploring the theme through the two men’s unrealized potential and the idea of rebirth. After hearing Holst’s “The Planets” performed at the Hollywood Bowl and the debut of Daniel Bjarnason’s Violin Concerto, the pair wrote the orchestral pieces that became the album, released on Dark Vinyl at the end of 2023. Demone and Roessler followed it with the “The April First / Feather Remix EP”, also via Dark Vinyl, in February 2026.

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