By the Zonagirante.com team @spinning zone
Do you remember the video of Karma Police, From Radiohead? Well, try this exercise: get out of the car and imagine the camera facing the killer vehicle. Assume the role of eyewitnesses to the chase, standing in front of the victim on their path of harassment, and at the same time, retrace the crime scene as you search for the body. They feel around them the perfect paranoid song with almost unintelligible voices, With its intense rhythm, sensationally tied to a single take crafted with clarity, boldness, and genius, this clip from the Chilean band can be considered one of the best videos of 2018, regardless of its low budget or simple production. It has a fantastic result, and that's what matters.
Molds – Lullaby for Ghost Towns
It all stems from fragments of a film made 45 years ago called Via Satellite… Live and Direct, directed by Armando Robles Godoy and produced by Bernardo Batievsky. A film shot in black and white, depicting the city of Lima as a sluggish, congested metropolis., Filled with colonial monuments, it's more suited to sadness and boredom than a more benign feeling. Meanwhile, the editing incorporates contemporary images with controlled color, without significantly altering the production's atmosphere, remaining consistent with the nostalgia evoked by the song referenced in the video. In short, an interesting work by one of the most striking bands on the current Peruvian music scene.
Gas-Lab & Traum Diggs – Heartskip
Five years have passed since the release of the first volume, a collaboration between Gas-Lab, an Argentinian artist based in Ingeniero Maschwitz, Buenos Aires, and Traum Diggs, a New York musician with a long career in the independent hip-hop scene. It will be released in the coming days. Jazz Hop vol.2, And they present us with this beautifully crafted song as a preview, created despite the thousands of kilometers separating the authors, and bringing to light the intelligence and elegance of the composers' work. From there, and while we await the full album, we are fortunate, thanks to Josue Lora's direction, to have a highly sensual video filmed in both South and North America. This piece visually expresses all the magic contained in the audio, without getting bogged down in superfluous details, instead highlighting simplicity with meticulous cinematography and editing sensitive to the recording's consistency. One of the most anticipated albums of recent times is upon us, and we are delighted to begin enjoying it in this way.
