The last video in Spindrift's "Classic Soundtracks Vol. 1" series features their baddest jam yet. "Theme From Drifter's Pass" is eight minutes of psychedelic cowboys and wizardry directed by Lavender Lee (aka Abigail Bean).
"The song has an incantatory trance like feel to the whole first half until it just explodes into a wildness harnessed only by the drum beat," Lee says. "I really wanted to capture the power of how the group performs this song live as well...you'll have to check them out live for the full dosage."
Lee shot the video with La film collective Dirty Robber, taking inspiration from the 60's cult film "Girl On A Motorcycle." Here, Spindrift's Sasha Vallely appears in a full body motorcycle jacket/catsuit as she races across a hallucinatory road, destined to cross paths with a hunted man.
"Sasha was game to do all the dangerous filming and riding on her own,...
"The song has an incantatory trance like feel to the whole first half until it just explodes into a wildness harnessed only by the drum beat," Lee says. "I really wanted to capture the power of how the group performs this song live as well...you'll have to check them out live for the full dosage."
Lee shot the video with La film collective Dirty Robber, taking inspiration from the 60's cult film "Girl On A Motorcycle." Here, Spindrift's Sasha Vallely appears in a full body motorcycle jacket/catsuit as she races across a hallucinatory road, destined to cross paths with a hunted man.
"Sasha was game to do all the dangerous filming and riding on her own,...
- 9/15/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
At one time or another La's western psyche posse, Spindrift, has been associated with just about every big psyche band from Austin to San Fransisco. Early players included members of Psychic TV, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Warlocks. Founding singer-songwriter, Kirpatrick Thomas, has close ties with Dead Meadow, The Dandy Warhols, and has toured with more bad ass stoned-out groups with the word black in their name (The Black Angels, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Black Mountain...) than you can shake a tambourine at.
"Theme from Confusion Range" is the first of several forthcoming music videos, each shot by a different independent director, for Spindrift's next album "Classic Soundtracks Vol. 1." Thomas, who takes many of his sonic cues from Ennio Morricone said, "the album is an homage to our love of film scoring and the medium which surrounds it."
This first of the series, featuring a decidedly exploited pair of Daisy Dukes,...
"Theme from Confusion Range" is the first of several forthcoming music videos, each shot by a different independent director, for Spindrift's next album "Classic Soundtracks Vol. 1." Thomas, who takes many of his sonic cues from Ennio Morricone said, "the album is an homage to our love of film scoring and the medium which surrounds it."
This first of the series, featuring a decidedly exploited pair of Daisy Dukes,...
- 2/9/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
Dead Meadow digs its own mystique, and that self-mythology has served the band well; wreathed in pulsing paisley and a hashish haze, the trio’s industrial-strength psychedelia has always been about the experience, man. How could a live Dead Meadow album go wrong? The answer to that question is Three Kings. The in-concert disc unflatteringly highlights the group’s plodding, reverb-soaked proto-metal, minus the communal vibe and volume. Of Kings’ five new studio tracks, the sumptuously soulful “Push ’Em To The Crux” and the Uriah Heep-like “That Old Temple” stand out, but the latter degenerates into a glum, featureless mush ...
- 4/6/2010
- avclub.com
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