POP MUSIC FROM AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

“If the world doesn’t work for you, make a new one! ”

- UNKNOWN SOURCE

Do you ever feel like you don’t belong in this world? Like you are out of place, or out of time? Do you wake up and wonder “What am I doing here? How did I end up in this strange place?” If so, you are likely a RENEGADE.⁣

Unheard Sirens Incorporated is the duo of Remy Renegade and The Empress Owl, two inter-dimensional travelers who create POP MUSIC FROM AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE: synth soaked anthems for anyone who feels out of sync with reality.⁣

They are on a mission to unite with the other RENEGADES OF THE PORTAL: travelers from other dimensions longing for a place. Aliens searching for a home. Disappointed idealists tired of feeling powerless in our dystopian existence. Anyone desperate for a better future.⁣

Are you a Renegade?

MUSIC

BIO

“We call our sound POP MUSIC FROM AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE. I’ve always felt like I’m from another universe or another planet, so it makes sense that our music is as well.”

  This is how Remy Trail, founding member of Unheard Sirens Inc., now describes the music he and wife Juliet Trail create. Sonically, it filters 70s and 80s synthpop through the lens of the modern synthwave and retrowave movements. But the “pop music from an alternate universe” moniker doesn’t just describe the duo’s approach to the sound. It describes the very person they make music for.

“I don’t know if you guys have ever had that feeling of being sort of out of place, or out of time,” Juliet says. “You wake up one morning and you think, ‘What the f* am I doing here? I must be an alien. Like, who put me in this weird place?’ Well, we’ve had that experience throughout our lives, and we realize ‘Oh! We have no idea how we got here. It must have been a portal.’”

Remy always had trouble fitting in. A shy, neurodivergent kid growing up in Charlottesville, Virginia, he always had trouble relating to others. He only realized in recent years that a lot of his feelings of being out of place came from being both bisexual and gender-fluid. During his formative years, he took solace in sci-fi, fantasy and rock music. In his 20s, he discovered punk rock, sparking an interest in making his own music. He soon formed his first garage punk band, Freak Flag.

Juliet is a lifelong musician. Inspired by her grandmother sitting at the piano and singing songs for the family, she started piano lessons at age five, choir at ten, and cello at eleven. She completed a Bachelor's degree in music, with piano as her primary focus, and solo voice and choir secondary. Later, she completed a Master's Degree in Vocal Performance & Pedagogy, with piano and choir as secondary pursuits. During college, she played cello and did backing vocals in the bands Rebar and Touk. In 2003, she joined the electronic-rock band Clare Quilty on keys and backing vocals. In 2004, she and the two other ladies of Clare Quilty recruited a female drummer and founded the acoustic lounge-rock band, The Dirty Dishes. In 2008, Juliet founded darkwave rock band Phoenix Noir, releasing the album “From the Ashes” in 2012.