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Saints of Catalina

by Sadkin

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So, you may be asking, "Who exactly are the Saints of Catalina?" Very good question and one I will be hard pressed to answer outright. Suffice to say, 'Saints of Catalina' is about the perceptible impossible; and what of that, which is 'impossible', might actually somehow manifest to something .. real, something tangible. To that end, Saints of Catalina is about that rare type of hope which survives and inexplicably persists when there otherwise should be none.

Sometimes the spirit survives on such thin threads and how those threads keep even the most impossible hope alive .. it is a wonder in itself. Saints of Catalina is that exaltation of that impossible hope.

The song was self recorded, mixed and produced, as is all of the Sadkin songs, in the dining room of a small, old house in Duluth, MN. The drums were tracked in the adjacent living room through Universal Audio interfaces and 2 channels of a Warm Audio 'neve' pre-amp into the UA LUNA DAW. The bass was tracked through an A-Design REDDI and the guitars split between two active channels combining DI and an amp modeler. The vocals were recorded through a Townsend Labs l22 Sphere. The synthesizers were sequenced and programmed in LUNA using Arturia and UA Shape softsynths.

The mix was routed out through an analog Neve Mix Bus Processor II and then sent into a Cranesong HEDD 192. The Cranesong was also the master clock for tracking, mixing and mastering.

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Saints of Catalina -

Time divides making the first hand slow down
Time betrays, hold on for dear life
Want to breathe with all the lost souls grieving

Dance in the light of the moon over oceans

Lives burn away
Maybe we’ll turn this page
Clutching the saints of Catalina with our wild eyes (wild eyes)
Lives turn away
Maybe we’ll burn this page
Clutching the saints of Catalina with our mind’s eye (mind's eye)

Stood so high up on the shoulder of Mars
Armistice signed, feelings of loss, unstable
Run for our lives between the tears of rainfall

Under the light of the moon over oceans
Sway to the tune of the last fading oeuvre

Finally reach the season, the leaves are falling down
Finally comes to reason, our only shot is now
Hold on to this moment, let go of the past
This future is ours, this time is our chance
This is our time
This is the gold we’ve come to find
Too high to fall (oh), we can’t let go
This is our time
This is the last of all the wars
This is a call for life (for life)

Lives burn away
Maybe we’ll turn this page
Clutching the saints of Catalina with our wild eyes (wild eyes)
Lives turn away
Maybe we’ll burn this page
Clutching the saints of Catalina with our mind’s eye (mind's eye)
Lives burn away
Maybe we’ll turn this page
Clutching the saints of Catalina with our wild eyes (wild eyes)

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released July 14, 2023
Composed, performed, recorded, mixed & mastered by Max Mileski
Drums performed by Chris LeBlanc
Cover photography by Andrea Miller
Olive Bay Records

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Sadkin Duluth, Minnesota

Under the flickering lights of the odeum resides the moody New Romantic acolytes, Sadkin; futurewave from Duluth MN. Fronted by Max Mileski, who self produced the first album, Elan Vital. His beacon to evolve Sadkin to the stage met with merit as Nic Hanson (gtr), Anton Jimenez-Kloekl (synths), Daniel Vopal (bass) & Stephen Hamlin (drums) have now all congregated to present their futurist art/pop. ... more

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