a quiet end

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Tinariwen & TV on the Radio - Tenere Taqqim Tossam

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Nine Types of Light

Candy’s gonna fall out of the sky.

There’s another song post about the EP on it’s way, but given that this album was released today, I really wanted to throw something related up here as it’s something I’ve been looking forward to for a long time now.

I’d thought to post the video for ‘Will Do’ at some point after it was released a few weeks back, but I’m glad I held off, as what the band is doing here extends much beyond only a single form music video.

The film is described as being “…as much an album as it is a movie by TV on the Radio. The movie is meant to be a visual re-imagining of the record, and includes a music video for every song on the album. The band personally asked their friends and the filmmakers they admired to help direct the music videos. Tunde Adebimpe, the director for the full Nine Types of Light movie, storybooked the music videos together with interviews from local New Yorkers on various topics, including dreams, love, fame and the future.” Right from the incredibly interesting opening dialogue, a framing device for the the film, as well as the album, an astoundingly curious and engaging set of themes begin to emerge. 

Liars, another great band who have some relation with TVOTR, did something similar a few years back with the excellent Drum’s Not Dead, making videos for each song that were released on a DVD along with the album. That record might have had more of an overarching concept in the music than Nine Types of Light does, but the way the film pulls the separate videos together as a unified set of work that adds a structure to the album’s themes and flushes out the depth that lies there more thoroughly, presenting the whole work as a large country worth exploring in detail.

There’s some videos in the works for songs from the EP, and though they are likely a ways off still, I’m hopeful they’ll pan out. There was some early discussion of doing shorts for each song, but it didn’t seem to be a realistic option, however in the future expanding musical ideas into a different mediums that can add further context, or borrow but operate in a separate thematic world, or both, is something I’m very much looking forward to exploring as a more expansive project and collaborative endeavour.

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November 9, 2009 @ 1:13am • Audio Post • Tweet this • Share on Facebook

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TV on the Radio - Family Tree

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October 27, 2009 @ 7:02pm • Video Post • Tweet this • Share on Facebook

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TV On The Radio - Province