New Video: Liz Lamere Takes the Viewer on a Tour of the Underworld in New Visual for "Sin"
New Video: Liz Lamere Takes the Viewer on a Tour of the Underworld in New Visual for "Sin" @zilamere @grandstandhq @shazi_la @jennihensler
Liz Lamere is a New York-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, who has had a lengthy career playing drums in several local punk bands — and famously for collaborating with her late partner, the legendary Alan Vega on his solo work for the better part of three decades.
Lamere finally steps out into the spotlight as a solo artist with her solo debut Keep It Alive. Written and performed…
Judith Bedard in A Place In Your Heart Makes Me Feel More Real by Roeg Cohen.
Styling and floral design by Jenni Hensler, hair by Jillian Halouska, make up by Christine Cherbonnier, manicure by Alicia Torella.
Where as the proceeding listens leading up to “The Fall”, the latest preview off Zola Jesus’ new album ARKHON, were created through more organic elements of instrumentation as well as the human breath, muscle, and morrow, this track arguably the most directly pop-projecting from our dark Mother Nature’s creative vision since her turn toward blown-out spectral synth-pop on 2014′s polarizing Taiga. The difference most apparent between these two eras in her work are in their intention with no greater power forcing the widescreen of Zola Jesus into our view. “I wrote ‘The Fall’ for myself. It was an exercise in using music as a tool for the sake of my own inner catharsis,” said Nika Roza Danilova of its conception. “I had a lot of turmoil and complicated emotions that I couldn’t process in any other way. I suppose some feelings require you to write a pop song in order to fully understand them. For that reason, this song is very precious to me.”
In its music video directed by Jenni Hensler and choreographed by Sigrid Lauren, Danilova’s spiritual movements in sound and energy intersect in motion and bring the body from the darkness into a state of rebirth with the present moment, and it’s all presented in living art. “The Fall” and rise of Zola Jesus below...
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Zola Jesus’ ARKHON will be released May 20th on Sacred Bones Records.
New Video: Liz Lamere Shares Sultry, Boxing-Themed Visual for Thumping "Lights Out"
New Video: Liz Lamere Shares Sultry, Boxing-Themed Visual for Thumping "Lights Out" @zilamere @grandstandhq @shazi_la @trinityboxing
I’m grateful for New Colossus Festival’s triumphant return this week. But as you can imagine, it means that this week I’ll be very busy running around Manhattan’s Lower East Side to cover shows; chatting and bullshitting with friends and colleagues; and of course, doing that valuable in-person networking that has been hampered by the pandemic. I’ll be posting when I can; it’ll just be kind of…