It made sense to have him involved in this modern song.” With Michael, I’m sure River was influenced by his music. That’s why I think it was so easy and felt so guided,” Phoenix said. “Everyone involved in this project has a connection to my brother. “Scales and Fishnails” is a quiet duet between the siblings over a sparse guitar and piano arrangement. in its jagged minor chord progressions and earnest vocal delivery. It’s wild how that worked.”Īmong other songs by Aleka’s Attic is “Where I’d Gone,” which has shades of R.E.M. Michael’s in it, and we had so much fun the whole time. It was done in four hours with two lights that were bought by my friend Bobby, who’s an amazing DP.
“It all just kind of opened up and unfolded, including the video, which we just finished editing. I’ve never had to push one thing,” she added. “If I can say one thing about the entire release it’s that it has been guided. To have him duet with me was pretty epic. His voice is to me one of the most incredible male voices we have in this generation. It was, ‘Let me hear the song.’ Which I thought would probably be a no. I asked him, and it was painstaking, I’m not gonna lie. “I would never have thought to do that really, but then it just made sense. Sometimes when you’re super close to people, it’s even stranger to ask them to be involved with creative things,” Rain revealed of the Stipe collaboration. “Michael and I have been friends for a long time. That’s why it was so easy and felt so guided.” We just create this construct that makes sense enough to go through each day, but in reality it’s very non-linear.”įor the song “Time Is the Killer,” Phoenix was moved to tap R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe to add his inimitable presence to the proceedings. How time snaps and stretches and shrinks and we don’t really understand it. “I would say energetically that it had something to do with Aleka’s Attic being my first band ever, and this being the first time I’m doing something solo. It just kind of happened that way,” she says over the phone about the new release. The siblings were working on their debut full-length when he tragically passed away at the age of twenty-three in October 1993. Watch a video directed by Bobby Bukowski and Bradley Gregg below.That, Rain Phoenix explains, is the only logical explanation as to why she’s releasing the Time Gone project, which features her debut single, “Time Is the Killer,” along with two songs from her first band, Aleka’s Attic, on the flip-side.Īleka’s Attic was a band she had with her brother, the late actor River Phoenix, in the early ’90s. With Stipe’s help, the morose song is uplifted by bittersweet harmonies as the two sing: “Time is the mirror/ Time is the healer/ Time is the teacher/ Time is the killer.” On “Time Is The Killer,” Rain laments time’s tendency to erode bonds. That said, a quarter of a century has a definite weight to it and I felt compelled and guided to share River the musician, with the world.
It really made me think about the construct of time, how we create it to make sense of things, and how especially with grief, it never really snaps to a grid. It’s so hard to believe he’s been gone for 25 years. Speaking about the newly uncovered Aleka’s Attic tracks and reflecting on River’s legacy, Rain said that she hopes to honor her brother by showing the world his talents as a musician: The album includes two unreleased Aleka’s Attic tracks - “Where I’d Gone” and “Scales & Fishnails” - as well as a new Rain Phoneix song called “Time Is The Killer,” which features vocals from Michael Stipe and is out today. The release was announced back in January with a teaser video featuring footage of the Phoenix family. In remembrance and commemoration, his sister Rain Phoenix has released Time Gone, a collection of music the two wrote together for their alt-rock band Aleka’s Attic. Last year marked the 25th anniversary of actor River Phoenix’s death.
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