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Blue Cast Catalyst is the moniker of the New York City-based indie-electronic band formed and led by Adam Trull. With a vast abundance of mentors and musical influences, Blue Cast Catalyst’s music yields a perfectly honest portrayal of Trull’s wandering musical mind: dreamy, spacey, trip-hop infused, synthesizer symphonies; an airy, drifting take on a marriage of Panda Bear, Massive Attack, and Moby; immersive music, with pirouetting synthesizer-melodies that fill every cavity of every tiny brain-cell; recklessly twisting between quietly-reflective and semi-controlled explosiveness…like cans of blue-paint being smashed against white brick walls.
Born and raised in small-town-New Hampshire; Trull was a quiet, abnormally-different child in a family of four siblings. In his early childhood, he spent hours of car-rides daydreaming while being unintentionally saturated with 80’s and 90’s“easy-listening” pop (the likes of Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Tears For Fears, Police, and so on), which inevitably played a unique role in forming the Blue Cast Catalyst sound.
Through high-school and college in New Hampshire, Trull studied music theory and performance, as a self-taught multi-instrumentalist. Befriending seasoned, local hip-hop and funk musicians, he spent his free time driving around New England listening to Parliament-Funkadellic, Sly and the Family Stone, Outkast, The Roots, Arrested Development, and numerous others. Finding an early passion in funk, Trull arranged and led horn sections for numerous funk and hip-hop acts in Boston and surrounding areas.
Shortly thereafter, the numerous projects that Trull helped form, brutally fell apart. Despondent, Trull left Boston to relocate to New York City, dedicating his passion to writing and arranging his own music. In early 2010, Trull received disastrous, life-changing news, which served as a catalyst in shaping his spirituality, beliefs, and writing. Following the news, Trull immediately wrote “St. Patrick”, a song about a clamoring-desperation to regain control amidst personal catastrophe.
Splitting time recording in his New York City apartment and hustling recording equipment around in New York City subways and Taxis to other musicians’ homes, As Bright As Day recording sessions spanned nearly 18-months. Arranging the music with co-producer and guitarist John Deming, and numerous guest musicians, the album combines Questlove-styled hip-hop back beats, with layers of 80’s-throwback synthesizer melodies, “Peter Gabriel à la Sledgehammer” horn arrangements, and slightly melancholic vocals; the Blue Cast Catalyst collective crafted gorgeous pop symphonies. Lyrically, Trull poured out years of internal battles, discussing his years of self-destruction, struggles with spirituality, his rampant anxieties, an angry-remorse towards fleeting friendships and loves, isolation from society, and (with much influence due in part to Kundera’s “The Lightness of Being”) the beautiful resolve of allowing oneself to simply exist as a passenger in life’s subway-train.
As Bright As Day, the first major LP release from Blue Cast Catalyst, has already received high acclaim: "crafting perfect indie pop / dream pop hybrids" (Spacelab.TV)... "they very well could be the next popular indie breakthrough" (IndieBandHouse.com)… "it would be wise to keep a watchful eye on them" (IndieMusicDigest.com). BCC is currently releasing their debut album under Trull’s indie-label EOW Music.
- CrankRank Peak: 611
- Song: Sold Your Soul