Watch The Besnard Lakes’ New Video “The Divine Wind”:
The Besnard Lakes have a new video for their track “The Divine Wind“. Directed by the band’s Jace Lasek and his wife Olga Goreas, Lasek has this to say about the new visuals:
“Oggy and I have wanted to make a video for a long time. We’ve been shooting and collecting short moving images for quite some time now and this video is kind of the result of that collection. A lot of this imagery was shot up at Besnard Lake (although with the treatment you’d never know it). Originally we wanted to make a video that was a cross between Spiritualized’s “Shine a Light” and Richard Ashcroft’s “Bittersweet Symphony.” We quickly realized this was impossible so we made this one instead.”
“The Divine Wind” is The Besnard Lakes first self-produced video and Lasek reports that they used Glitch Art’s AVE3 to create the colorful, lo-fi imagery that we see here. The device was built by Portland’s Big Pauper Modified Circuitry, the maker of “psychotronic modified glitch video art devices for creative types”. Using the AVE3 to treat the images that they’ve been collecting, Lasek and Goreas have created a haunting and abstracted vision that is a perfect accompaniment to “The Divine Wind”‘s late night psychedelia.
You can find “The Divine Wind” on The Besnard Lakes new 12″, The Besnard Lakes Are The Divine Wind, out now digitally on Jagjaguwar. The EP contains two tracks that were written and recorded during the sessions for last year’s LP, A Coliseum Complex Museum. The band reports that the tracks didn’t quite fit on that record at the time, but they were strong efforts that still needed an outlet. While you can pick up a digital copy of the 12″ now, look for an LP version of The Besnard Lakes Are The Divine Wind to come out March 3rd via Jagjaguwar.
