Charming Disaster - "Blacksnake" [Rock & Alternative]
"Blacksnake" music video by Charming Disaster
Added: 03-05-2019
Genre : Rock & Alternative
Description :
From Charming Disaster's third album, SPELLS + RITUALS, comes a magical struggle between two powerful figures. Are they fighting for dominance? Plotting betrayal? Making a secret pact? Is it all just a hallucination? And who will survive in the end? Shot in the Kreischer Mansion, a Staten Island, NY haunted house built by a 19th-century brick magnate and more recently the scene of a mafia murder, "Blacksnake" calls upon the ritual magic of music to invoke a mysterious sorcery.
PREORDER "SPELLS + RITUALS" at http://bit.ly/2vAGosv
Directed and edited by Jeff Morris & Ellia Bisker
Videographers: Nick Crowe and LJ Avalos of Deer God (http://bit.ly/2PJPlck)
Additional creative direction: Josh Bisker
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From Charming Disaster’s third album, SPELLS + RITUALS, comes a magical struggle between two powerful figures. Are they fighting for dominance? Plotting betrayal? Making a secret pact? Is it all just a hallucination? And who will survive in the end? Shot in the Kreischer Mansion, a Staten Island, NY haunted house built by a 19th-century brick magnate and more recently the scene of a mafia murder, “Blacksnake” calls upon the ritual magic of music to invoke a mysterious sorcery. PREORDER “SPELLS + RITUALS” at http://bit.ly/2vAGosv
Bisker and Morris grew up in Westchester’s neighboring New Rochelle and Pelham, and both live in Brooklyn now. They describe the elegantly transfixing, ardently crafted songs performed on SPELLS + RITUALS as rituals themselves: “We’ve always had an interest in the world of magic and the occult as a rich source of material,” they say, “but we’ve been incorporating ritual into our own creative practices and live performances.”
For instance, they’ve been using Tarot cards to determine the sequence of songs in their sets, and ask members of the audience to pull out a card to determine the next number in their sets. As cards are drawn, they’re laid out in Tarot formation to form a meta-narrative linking them all into a new larger story. “This divinatory practice introduces an element of chance and adds another layer of meaning to our music.”
Unlike other bands that could be said to fit this niche, Charming Disaster are experts at making their songs groove amidst the ruins; and as the full-length goes on diverse influences pop and masterfully take things in all weird directions. Additional musicians on SPELLS + RITUALS include co-producer (with the band) Don Godwin on bass, drums, trombone, percussion; violinist Heather Cole (who is also in Bisker’s other band, Sweet Soubrette); cellist Patricia Santos (a member of Morris’ other band Kotorino); and Jessie Kilguss on harmonium.
Lead single “Blacksnake” they consider to be a secret title track of the album. “It describes two powerful figures making efforts to protect themselves from each other using magic spells, but also describes two musicians playing together in a ritualistic way. Are they fighting for dominance or making a secret pact? Who will survive? Is it inspired by true events? Is it just a fever dream?” It came out of a conversation the band had while on tour in 2017, when staying with a friend in North Carolina who mentioned how territorial this type of snake is.
The video for “Blacksnake” was shot in the Kreischer Mansion, “a haunted house in the hinterlands of Staten Island built by a brick magnate in the 19th century and more recently the scene of a mafia murder.” The battle of two musicians takes place in this dilapidated space, shot by videographers Nick Crowe and LJ Avalos of Deer God. Mysteriously, the heat and water had been turned off for the winter, so if you see breath from their lips in the video it is not a special effect.
Tags : 2019, 10s, Charming Disaster
