Get on the supernatural tip with THEESatisfaction‘s stellar new video for their track “Recognition“. Directed by the filmmaker and documentarian Tiona McClodden, the video features intimate tableaux that include a host of young black artists, as well as the amazing elder stateswoman and cultural agent Xenobia Bailey–whose large-scale, crocheted mandala is also displayed here. Filmed at locations like the National Historical Marian Anderson Residence Museum, John Coltrane House, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Sun Ra’s Arkestra House, McClodden weaves together a subtle visual narrative that takes it’s cues from the track’s closing vocal sample, which discusses the role of the “supernatural” in African American cultural and religious experience. Then, using it’s location shooting as touchstones, recognizing the once humble homes of these elevated musicians as power spots in the transmission of a supernatural herstory, the director effectively draws this younger generation of artists into a living web of Afro-Futurist legacy. THEESatisfaction’s upcoming LP Earthee is due out February 24th via Sub Pop.
