Nathaniel Shannon and the Vanishing Twin unveil the video for Mater Suspiriorum and it's freaking awesome!!!!.
Nathaniel Shannon and the Vanishing Twin unveil the video for Mater Suspiriorum and it's freaking awesome!!!!.
We love Nathaniel and his amazing work from multiple mediums, but this recent EP "The Three Mothers" was a dark, fantastically creepy celebration of original music with depth and color. So course we are stoked to see he has just dropped an insanely and suitably macabre, yet technicolor video and you will love it.
Nathaniel
Shannon and The Vanishing Twin is an experimental dark folk
project and the creation of Detroit-bred and Brooklyn based photographer and
multimedia artist Nathaniel Shannon. Today sees the release of his spooky video
for Mater Suspiriorum. The song is taken from THE THREE MOTHERS,
out on US based label Aqualamb, the second video from the EP after Mater Tenebrarum was
released earlier this year.
THE THREE
MOTHERS bore its roots several years ago as a few disjointed
keyboard-based loops in Nathaniel’s apartment. Some feedback, extremely late
nights, and a lyrical concept based on Dario Argento’s ‘Three Mothers” film
trilogy later, and a record the artist never intended to write was born.
Both the
A-frame, and the doll obviously stuck out, as the leaves had made a blanket of
dead foliage. Returning the next day with my camera to take some pictures, I
found the doll was no longer there. I paid no mind to it, slightly
disappointed, and went about my business appreciating the last days of an
Indian summer.
A week later, I
found the same doll a block from my house in a neighbor’s front yard. I brought
the doll home with me, elated that I had stumbled upon it again, with the
intention of photographing and filming it. I captured a few seconds of B-Roll
video when my camera suddenly died. I had just put in fresh batteries, yet it
was still dead. I swapped out the batteries and tried again. The camera rolled
for about 10 seconds before that battery died. This happened a few more times.
I recognized that this could be some sort of a camera issue, and while
frustrated, didn’t think much of anything besides a technical issue. I had
several clips, and that's all I really needed.
That evening, we
lost power to our house. Our neighbors all seemed to still have electricity.
Upon calling the power company, they showed no record of us not receiving power
on their end and said they would send someone out in the morning. Meanwhile,
the doll was left in my studio space in the attic of our house after I had
gotten done shooting.
I didn’t sleep
well that night, and had awful nightmares seeing someone with a red, distorted
face. I awoke the next morning to the knock of the power company coming to see
what the issue was. The electricity was still out, and I noticed the baby doll
wasn’t where I had left it. I couldn’t find it at all. My girlfriend was out of
town at the time, and no one else was in the house. I'd had things go missing
in the house before and wasn’t trying let my mind wonder too much.
The power
company couldn’t find anything wrong, and I began to grow concerned about this
doll being in my house, but now I couldn’t find it. I tore our house apart,
remnants unfound. I went to a friend's house to do some work. Returning home later that afternoon, I found
the doll laying in the middle of our living room floor. I immediately grabbed
my camera and stuffed the doll into my bag, promptly returning to the A-frame
tree structure in the woods, where I returned the doll, and shot some B-Roll of
the tree hut, which can also be seen in the video.
When I arrived
home after returning the doll, our power was back on. I couldn’t shake the cold
feeling I had. I prepared some notes of my dream and decided to try and
recreate it as best as I could for this video. What you are about to see is the
doll, the location, and my dream interpretation mixed with a live performance
of me playing "Mater Suspiriorum."
Hell yes, don't waste time, as this is the best 3mins of your day......seriously!!
Watch now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHYEStKxw-w
And buy a copy of this gloriously evil and satisfying masterpiece:
https://nathanielshannonandthevanishingtwin.bandcamp.com/
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