around 3 or 4 years ago myself and two film-maker friends of mine - Rhodri Thomas and Stephen Jones - for lack of anything better to do embarked on an ambitious video project. A triptych of video pieces. Only two of the three were ever finished so they've never been seen before. A heavily edited version of the second appeared in a couple of gallery shows but this is their first time in public.
if i may be so bold as to make a suggestion - these are meant to be watched on full screen in a dark room with the music on loud or on headphones.
I hope you enjoy. i think they're fab but i'm biased.
So, I did that "Ballads and Buildings" tour this summer.
This is Ballad #1 from Latvia. That was my first time playing without relying on layering or loops, pretty much with just a guitar and amp on 10 and feedback from the Baltics to LEO. It did the brain good.
(That's the raw recording on a Zoom H4, and it may get incorporated into something else in the future.)
This is a concept I wrote down on a scrap of paper (probably while high) when I was about 18 - I think I wanted to do an album of different spellings :-)
The notes spell the word "deaf" and the Morse code beat spells the word deaf too. A silly idea.
Found the scrap of paper and decided to make by late teenage dream a reality!
As always, beautiful work. All of you. I'm putting the finishing touches on my next album. In the meantime, I just finished mixing some FELT acapellas with FLAMING LIPS songs. It was a shitload of fun making this, I hope it's nearly as fun to listen to: