Pinguin Radio heeft de clipprimeur van de nieuwe single Photograph van de Canadese psychedelische band Elephant Stone! Op het nieuwste album Ship Of Fools horen we nog steeds de oosterse invloeden maar is er ook meer aandacht voor elektronica.
De clip is geregisseerd door Skyler Payne Holmes en Elephant Stone-frontman Rishi Dir heeft dit over de clip te zeggen:
“While writing an album, my senses work on overdrive to find inspiration. It could be a news segment on the radio, a painting, the way the morning light cuts through my bedroom curtains, or something someone said… In the case of the lyrics for “Photograph”, it was something someone close to me said.
While cleaning their house they found a photo of them as a child. Looking the photo, the person commented “I hardly recognize that person.” And that was it. In the great (well, some definitely greater than others) tradition of “Photograph” songs (Ringo Starr, Def Leppard, etc) I decided to write a song about life’s missed chances and nostalgia. I am by no means a nostalgic person… I am always looking to future and rarely, sadly, satisfied with the present moment (though, I try to be).
For the video, there wasn’t any real grandiose theme.. The Mad Alchemy Liquid Light Show (Lance) flew up from San Francisco to do projections for the show. If you’ve never seen it, it’s something to behold. I wanted to take the opportunity to capture some live footage for posterity. Skyler, who also directed our video for “Andromeda”, came along and filmed a bunch of footage and offered to sync it up to a tune. On a whim I suggested he use “Photograph.”
When I got the final product, the meta-moment was not lost on me. Here I was watching a video of me performing on stage soundtracked by a song about life’s missed chances and nostalgia. The song has truly come full circle.”
-Rishi Dhir, Sept 27, 2016
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