Posted by Grouper has shared the beautiful video for new song ‘Ode To The Blue’.
Liz Harris returns to this powerful, much-loved project for new album ‘Shade’, due for release on October 22nd.
New song ‘Ode To The Blue’ is taken from the album, and it exemplifies the hushed intensity that haloes the best of Grouper’s work.
Dicky Bahto directs the video, which seems to echo the intimacy of Liz Harris’ musicality.
The film maker comments…
“Liz sent me a love song in the middle of the worst part of the pandemic in Los Angeles to think about making a film for. I was depressed and scared and felt incapable of thinking. She mentioned picturing people kissing; and ‘maybe something in a graveyard’. I wanted to see my friends. I wanted to feel intimacy again. I thought: what if the film is just people making out in graveyards?”
“In Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights I found myself surrounded by graves for people who, like my own grandparents, had survived the Armenian and Assyrian genocide a little over a hundred years ago. After a year of fear over the pandemic, growing support for rightwing authoritarianism, and the escalating climate crisis—with a popular narrative that we’re living through the end of the world— I needed the reminder that the end of the world is always happening somewhere, and even if we don’t survive the end of our world, we might as well enjoy the pleasures of love. Watching my friends kiss was a hot, fresh breath direct from their mouths that made me feel a joy I hadn’t experienced in far too long.”
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Garrett Grove
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