{"id":18598,"date":"2022-02-10T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=18598"},"modified":"2024-03-28T15:13:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T15:13:55","slug":"eric-chenaux-unveils-video-for-say-laura-off-upcoming-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=18598","title":{"rendered":"Eric Chenaux unveils video for ‘Say Laura’ off upcoming album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: Sylvestre Nonique-Desvergnes<\/p><\/div>\n

Last month Eric Chenaux<\/a> announced the release of his first album in four years, Say Laura<\/em>, and enticed us with the beguiling title track. Now he is offering an accompanying video for the single, directed by filmmaker and longtime collaborator Eric Cadzyn. Chenaux wrote a few words about the song and the video:<\/p>\n

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“Say Laura is the sixteenth music video from Eric Cadzyn and I.
\nSweet 16!
\nWhen I think about this group of work I think about the chance I get to encounter
\nthe way a dear friend listens.
\nAnd how he modulates that listening into a problem.
\nA problem in the classic sense.
\nThe problem being the form of music video.
\nAnd we both take on that form unapologetically.
\nI know they are a far cry from Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay Z busting a move in the Louvre.
\nWe are wondering how to encounter this form or propose an encounter with this form
\nwhere the image and the song can co-inhabit a space and a time without hierarchy.
\nWhere the image and sound can share a space (perhaps differently) without short-circuiting the other. Where we get to see and hear without one sense exercising control over the other.
\nMost of the videos we have made (save for a couple) are one non-edited shot.
\nSay Laura takes a distinctively different approach, using photos (for the most part).<\/p>\n

This is a performance video and maybe a sister video to Wild Moon,
\nwhich is a video of the performer listening and quietly singing along and dancing.
\nThis is a video of the performer lip-syncing (different than quietly singing along, I don\u2019t know how it is different but it is different. A different zone).
\nThe performer closes its eyes when it is not singing (to listen to the guitar, I imagine, without having to engage with the camera).
\nIn the stillness of the photos we see the gestures, the shapes that the mouth makes to make the different sounds.
\nA dance of skin, orifice (filter), teeth, tongue, lips, jaw and well, a lot of hair!
\nThe slits, the orifices, the bends in the skin.
\nThe humour of the grotesque of the mouth abstracted and often without context to the surrounding face. The video is a performance of the song and this is a performance video.
\nThere is text coming out of the song onto the screen, out of sync and in sync.
\nThere are pulses in the video: pulsing text, pulsing image, pulsing screen, flashing the beat of the song. And the video performs \u201cSay Laura\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Watch the video for ‘Say Laura’ below and watch out for the album release on February 19th through Constellation<\/a> and Murailles Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n