TILES Films 'Sacred & Mundane' Video

Detroit-based progressive rock band TILES has finished filming footage for the edited version of the song "Sacred & Mundane". The raw material has since been shipped off to Kentucky where Highway Run Productions will work its magic and create a quirky promotional video.

As previously reported, TILES will release its new album, "Fly Paper", via InsideOut Music on the following dates:

Germany, Austria and Switzerland: January 25, 2008
The rest of Europe: January 28, 2008
North America: January 29, 2008

"Fly Paper" (cover artwork) was produced by Terry Brown (RUSH, FATES WARNING, VOIVOD) and includes the following songs:

01. Hide In My Shadow
02. Sacred & Mundane (feat. Alex Lifeson)
03. Back & Forth (feat. Alannah Myles)
04. Landscrape
05. Markers
06. Dragons, Dreams & Daring Deeds (feat. Kim Mitchell)
07. Crowded Emptiness (feat. Hugh Syme)
08. Hide & Seek

Additional special guests include Sonya Mastick (percussion),Matthew Parmenter (keyboards/vocals) and Nate Mills (vocals).

TILES guitarist Chris Herin recently had the following to say about Alex Lifeson's (RUSH) contribution to the CD: "Terry had approached Alex about making a guest appearance — and played him some of our new songs. Alex liked what he heard and said he would have a chance to do 'something' before RUSH began rehearsals for their 'Snakes & Arrows' tour. The window of opportunity arrived this past March — and Terry went to Alex's studio where the two proceeded to work their magic on 'Sacred and Mundane'. Listening to Alex's parts for the first time was amazing — and the amount of work he put into the song was beyond what we could have hoped for. He came up with a counter-riff that literally 'became' the song; he added acoustic guitars to the refrains; played an acoustic Celtic counter-melody in the bridge; came up with a cool backwards solo in the breakdown section; and added an assortment of guitar textures and effects from start to finish. Terry and Alex spent almost 12-hours recording (well…, they did stop for dinner — as Terry usually insists upon — and who knows how long that took!). Terry has come up with a 3½ minute single edit of 'Sacred and Mundane' for which we're hoping to do a video. But now it's like I'm 15 years old all over again learning to play Alex Lifeson parts.

"It's an amazing privilege to have Alex Lifeson lend his signature guitar style to a TILES song… along with Alannah Myles singing on 'Back and Forth', Kim Mitchell's lead guitar on 'Dragons, Dreams and Daring Deeds', Hugh Syme's keyboards on 'Crowded Emptiness', and our friends Sonya Mastick on percussion and Matthew Parmenter on keyboards… plus a vocal cameo from Nate Mills of 'Run with the Kittens'.

"That's a lot of noteworthy help — and a lot of liner notes to organize — but we did actually do some of our own playing too."