Soundpool
Include them in your colour palette
Today’s subject: names paint companies come up with for all their different hues of colour. Like “Misty Teal,” “Rainforest Foliage” or “Cayman Lagoon” for different shades of green, or “Sunporch,” “Baby Chick” or “American Cheese” to help differentiate between various yellow tints. They apparently put a lot of thought into them to evoke certain impressions and feelings, but overall fail to use them as a marketing tool.
If I had a paint company, I’d want to go for the edgy, hip, young crowd, and use much more fetching names for my colours. For instance, “Menstruating” would be a dark, rich red, “Waterlogged Corpse’s” greyish green tone would be a favourite, “Whitehead” would be a muted, slightly-off white, and “Sickly Prostate” for, well, I’m not sure what colour it would be; I just really like the name. Orange, maybe?
I would also most likely name a colour “Soundpool” as well, in honour of the New York City dreampop outfit and their spacey, shoegazey affinities. While combining the genre-standard guitar-and-reverb with some 1960s pop sensibilities and celestial vocal harmonies, Soundpool, especially in a song like The Divides Of March, delivers impressionistic, sparkling sonicscapes throbbing with life, birthing enough sound to fill one’s mind with enough psychedelic imagery to feel you’re spinning through the cosmos.
They’d be a shade of pink.
MP3: Soundpool - The Divides Of March
www.soundpoolmusic.com
myspace.com/soundpool
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