Black Velvet Butterfly and DateMonthYear collaboration 'Slipping Through My Hands'

NZ artists Black Velvet Butterfly (Auckland) and DateMonthYear (Hamilton), have teamed up for the new single ‘Slipping Through my Hands’

DateMonthYear’s Trevor Faville constructed an instrumental track to which James Castady-Kristament from Black Velvet Butterfly added lyrics, guitar, vocals and production.

 ‘Slipping Through my Hands’  is  a song that explores, in the first person perspective, one of the most powerful and enduring characters in 20th century literary and movie culture. It starts with a ‘what if’ conjecture, and brings it home with a personal and-dare we say “human”-perspective.

 James Castady-Kristament from Black Velvet Butterfly says:

“‘Slipping Through My Hands’ is about a melancholic vampire, having an existential crisis. After all, vampires are only immortal - if they stay out of the sun and away from vampire hunters. Yet time zooms past so fast especially for vampires. You couldn't help but feel you were hurtling towards your inevitable bitter end. As if time was slipping through your hands, like sand”

Trevor Faville from DateMonthYear adds "This experience has been really rewarding. I had no real idea of the direction that this song would take, or what lyrical approaches it would inspire from James. I resonate with the idea of character based songwriting because it expands the lyrical possibilities- as I think we have shown here.”

Muzic.net has given ‘Slipping Through my Hands’ a four star review, stating:

'Hopefully this is not the last we hear of this partnership, as this is incredibly effective'