City Nightmares is the first Music and Fine Art & Poetry collaboration at Elysium Verto Collection.

Phil Day makes his living as a cartoonist for the New Yorker but this new series of paintings is charging forward a new aesthetic in his work that is perfect for what I’m doing with Elysium Verto Collection very excited to work with him on this.

Matthew Crowley is an actor whose work includes Paradise War: The Story of Bruno Manser, Mattie and I have been friends since I directed him in a play in London ten years ago. I had no idea he was so musically gifted until he offered to adapt my poem City Nightmares into a song. The imagery went perfectly with Phil’s dystopian vision.

This is a Genesis drop for both Phil and Mattie.

The poem City Nightmares is available in the unlock able content. I wrote it while I was working as a bartender in LA on Hollywood Blvd, I would see the strangest things when my shift ended walking home at 3am the dregs and degenerates of the night looking for their last dose of excitement on their night’s adventure. Or looking for a place to call home again after looking for love in all the wrong places. This song is about the outsider in all of us looking up at the fireplaces in windows we don’t belong to on the coldest nights wherever we find ourselves.

There are three versions to this collaboration release and this is version 2.