Artists Michael Amstad and Marte Eknæs puttogether a cinematic meditation to accompany The Place I’ve Been Missing, the spectacular brand-new album from Not Waving.
Alessio Natalizia, finest understood for his diverse productions, emotive songwriting and exploratory partnerships as Not Waving, reunites with artists Michael Amstad and Marte Eknæs for a meditative visual accompaniment to his sensational brand-new record, The Place I’ve Been Missing. Drawing together the broad range of designs and stateofminds we haveactually seen Natalizia touch on with his work with Romance, Spivak and the late, terrific Mark Lanegan, as well as in his function as visionary label head of the constantly fantastic Ecstatic, The Place I’ve Been Missing plays out as an intimate and vulnerable reflection on sorrow and transcience, drifting inbetween synth-pop reverie and progressive elegy.
Amstad and Eknæs’ sluggish, cinematic assemblage chooses out the reflective qualities of Natalizia’s task, a structurally speculative action to a deeply individual declaration that pulls focus on little minutes of vigor and marvel. A spiritual follower to the “emotive collage of vérité lockdown video” the artists pieced together for Natalizia’s launching album, How To Leave Your Body, The Place I’ve Been Missing unfolds like a tone poem, the movie’s procession of images and digital adjustment serving as an sophisticated analogue for Natalizia’s own extensive and instinctive method to structure.
“It reveals the fragility and ephemeral quality of nature and animals as siblings and siblings,” the artists describe. “Some of the video is shot with a thermographic cam, which develops images through infrared radiation rather of noticeable light. This opens up a various window to our environment from what we can see with the human eye. The colour spectrum from blue, through pink, to light yellow traces the cold and the heat and highlights the modifications of living energy.”
The Place I’ve Been Missing is out now. You can discover Not Waving on Instagram and at the Ecstatic Bandcamp.
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