![]() ![]() ![]() “All the time me and River jammed and spent time sitting and talking about stuff, it just felt natural. It’s so sweet.” -Rain PhoenixĪdding bass to both tracks felt organic for Flea, who was grateful to honor River, Rain, and their music. If you look at their social media posts and read what they have to say, they’ve followed his ethos. “His fans are some of the most gentle, loving people. “2×4” is the more uptempo side of the single: “River’s vocal is just amazing on it, especially at the end,” says Rain. “The lyrics are really poetic, and there’s something about it that feels like it’s kind of duet-y with he and I, more gentle and melancholy,” she says. “Alone U Elope” was written later than most of the other tracks and is described by Rain as more of a pop ballad. “A new generation of kids can find his writings in Aleka’s Attic.”īoth Alone U Elope tracks were originally recorded in Florida in early 1993. “In a way, that’s how I see the release,” says Rain. Aleka had a secret society of artists that met in his attic, and after he passes away, some kids find his writings and continue to keep his spirit alive by sharing his work. Bookended by his sisters, the campaign began began with Liberty Phoenix’s band Capes’ song “ Looking Out for Me ” on Mother’s Day and finished the week before his birthday with his sister Summer’s debut single, “ Tiempo.”įormed in 1987, Aleka’s Attic was a fictional tale based around a character dreamed up by River-a poet and a philosopher of sorts. Earlier this year, LaunchLeft kicked off River’s birthday celebration with the Launched Artist Digital Singles Series, featuring new artists’ (with a six-degree connection to River) singles every two weeks. The two song single entitled Alone U Elope features two of River’s close friends-Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea on bass and Dermot Mulroney on cello. Pre-sale on the limited edition vinyl and official merch begins the same day. To commemorate what would have been River’s fiftieth birthday on August 23, Rain is sharing two previously unreleased Aleka’s Attic tracks, “Alone U Elope” and “2×4,” via LaunchLeft, a label and podcast she started in 2018. A few years after River’s death, Rain revisited the band’s music-at least an album’s worth of tracks-before filing them away and revisiting it twenty-five years later. Just two years later, she would lose her brother River, who died on Octoat the age of twenty-three-but the music of Aleka’s Attic was still there. “I was a teenager, so just having that experience of what would become my entire life-music-was an eye-opener.”īarely nineteen, the experience was life changing for Rain. “There was this camaraderie of all being together and traveling, then getting to play music every night and noticing how much tighter we would get as a band by the end of the tour,” remembers Rain. In 1991, Aleka’s Attic-the band that included River Phoenix and his little sister Rain-hit the road in an RV for what would be the last tour since forming a few years earlier in the siblings’ hometown of Gainesville, FL, and it was a special moment in time. ![]()
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