New York City-based artist, producer, DJ Alexis Georgopoulos will return this summer with his project Arp. The musician is readying the release of his ZEBRA LP which is due out June 22nd via Mexican Summer. Utilizing a wide instrumental palette on the album that includes analog synthesizers, double bass, electronic and acoustic drums, Fender Rhodes, flute, vintage harmonizers and tape delay, “Fluorescences” is our first listen in on the upcoming record. Describing it as “a love song to light,” and an imagined analog of sorts to Kraftwerk’s track “Neon Lights”–a “romantic song about the lights of the city at night”–Georgopoulos explains that as the production took shape it “felt as if it started glowing.”
Arp’s gorgeous new video for the track was shot this Spring in NYC by cinematographer Shawn Brackbill. Starring Monica Hofstadter, who also edited the video, and featuring art direction from Georgopoulos himself, the musician explains:
“Originally, we’d wanted to shoot it on VHS, but it didn’t materialize easily so we went with Super 8, which, strangely, can share certain qualities with VHS, in terms of how light saturates the film.”
Influenced by Wim Wenders‘ documentary Notebooks on Cities and Clothes and Elizabeth Lennard‘s Tokyo Melody, the video follows Monica Hofstadter on her day to night urban adventure. Utilizing an intimate, hand-held expressionistic style, Spring in the big city comes alive with florid images of blooming vegetation and the flickering luminous glow of fluorescent lights. Meanwhile, Hofstadter’s understated presence shines in gleaming spangles as she pauses to enjoy a tree full of fragrant blossoms or the vivid emerald and turquoise of a coy peacock.
