Berlin based art-pop / electronic trio Bodi Bill return with a brand new release ‘Big Gong Sounds’, lifted from their forthcoming album due later this year through Sinnbus Records.
The accompanying video pays homage to silent movies of a bygone era and Faustian folklore, channeling absurdist Italo-Western film tropes and surreal pantomime. The band say: “‘Big Gong Sounds’ is about where and to what one wants to belong. If one is trying to find the other and they are trying to find themselves, who’s looking after the baby? There seems to be a longing for miracle healers and singing bowl therapies. They say you are getting down to big gong sounds.”
They go on to add: “Like the song itself, the video exaggerates the desire to just break free. The two characters are searching for each other but are always in the same place at the wrong time and on top of that there is a disruptive force working against them. The two protagonists represent the characters featured in the song’s lyrics, constantly missing each other. In an overflowing mix of references, the third protagonist is a sort of Mephistopheles meme. Accompanied by three assistants, he acts as a destructive force that only wants to confuse, preventing us from understanding each other. Actress Helga Wretman, who plays one of the roles here, adds immediate dynamics and physicality to the video. As both characters are dramatically pushed around all the time, it is her that knocks down the devil in the end. The misunderstandings finally dissolve in exuberant expressive dancing and finally everything is transferred into a feel good finale. There’s a happy ending of sorts, everyone gets along again, the shoving finally stops. But who knows…”
Following a hiatus of seven years, Bodi Bill returned in 2019 with a series of acclaimed releases ‘Kiss Operator’, ‘What If’ and ‘Better Than Reality’, offering a continually evolving approach to their music. ‘Be Sure’, is the first release of 2021 that sees Bodi Bill continue their foray forwards heralding the arrival of their new album in the later half of the year.
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