Peter Salett’s ‘Vision of the Sky’ Is a Haunting Prelude to His Double Album Drop
If you’ve been in New York long enough, the name Peter Salett likely flickers somewhere in your cultural cortex. He’s the guy behind ‘Heart of Mine,’ the song from Edward Norton’s Keeping the Faith that has inexplicably remained in rotation for hopeless romantics since 2000.
But way before that, he was one of those rare artists who actually made it by staying put, carving out a space in the downtown music scene with his melancholic warmth and cinematic instincts. That sense of grounded mysticism is all over ‘Vision of the Sky.’
Salett on the track, “All around us in Downtown Brooklyn giant skyscrapers were appearing seemingly overnight. The top of a 65 story tower was left unfinished for a while, and when the wind blew through it the most haunting, howling sound would float above the neighborhood. I couldn’t help thinking of those unfinished spaces that would one day be well lived in. I of course wanted the howling to end, but when the tower was finally fixed I missed the sound.
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