German trio-turned-four-piece Wight continue to tease their sonic evolution with a new video for “The Love for Life Leads to Reincarnation.” The closing track of what will be their third full-length — titled Love is Not Only What You Know — it’s a sprawling 11-minute psych-funk jam that just seems to be waiting for its boarding number to be called to get on the Mothership, following up on the funkified vibes of the Helicopter Mama 7″ (review here) that the Darmstadt outfit released earlier this summer in time for another European tour and expanding on them as well. Of course, the limitations of format have a stake in that as well — one can only fit so much on a 7″ as opposed to an LP — but with “The Love for Life Leads to Reincarnation,” Wight showcase just how fluidly they’ve been able to shift their sound, making a jump no less dramatic than that between their 2011 debut, Wight Weedy Wight (review here), and its 2012 follow-up, Through the Woods into Deep Water (review here), weaving their way from chunky-style riff rock to heavy psych and now beyond that into something even more their own.

And don’t get me wrong, the video’s cool — filmed live by Terrotika at Oetinger Villa on an off-day from the most recent tour, it’s got visual rhythm enough to match the sleek grooves with which Wight are getting down — but the highlight is the song itself. Moving from synth to guitar and vocals, René Hofmann channels Bernie Worrell en route to Chris Cornell while let-me-put-my-sunglasses-on-so-I-can-see-what-I’m-doing bassist Peter-Philipp Schierhorn holds the jam tight before letting it explode into an all-go heavy psych freakout, propelled by drummer Thomas Kurek with swing further underscored by percussionist Steffen Kirchpfening, whose smile throughout the clip only underscores how much fun Wight are having at this point. The clip was recorded in one take, in case there was any doubt Wight could bring it, and like the 7″ preceding, it just makes my want to hear the band’s third album even more.

Hofmann offers some comment under the video, which you’ll find below. Enjoy:

Wight, “The Love for Life Leads to Reincarnation”

Says René Hofmann:

Our new album will have the name “Love is Not Only What You Know”. It is the result of the past 3 years. We let things happen in our lives and so we never force a song to be finished. Sometimes we have missing party for years! And sometimes it just happens that you write a whole song in 2 or 3 rehearsals. It all depends what happens in life at the moment… I could write a lot about it, but just for this song “The Love For Life Leads To Reincarnation”… I read about buddhism and the author wrote that you get salvation if you can free yourself from all delights, wishes, greed etc. you don’t need human relationships anymore, no property. You are just completely happy with yourself if you can achieve this stadium.

I really liked the idea about it. If you can free yourself, you will get one step “higher” or wiser in the next life cycle. If you get the complete epiphany, you will leave the “game of life” Sansara and your soul will be happy in the Nirvana.

The song title just says it all. I don’t need much material goods but I am really into getting emotional rich. I need to travel and see the whole world, I love to let myself go in foreign cultures and for most… I love senses, touching, smelling, hearing, making music, having sex.

So I just accept I don’t wanna be ready to leave life. For me life is too short to get all my stuff done. So If I die, My soul will fly around just for some seconds to grab a new life, which will be born somewhere on earth.

…and then I will make more Wight albums haha! My Band will survive me baby!

Cheers from mad-city Darmstadt!
Rene

First take, filmed by the girl and boys of Terrotika.

Wight performs live at Oetinger Villa Darmstadt
Sunday Aug 23rd 2015

Wight is:
René Hofmann – Vocals, Guitar and Synthesizer
Peter-Philipp Schierhorn – Bass
Thomas Kurek – Drums
Steffen Kirchpfening – Percussions

Credits:
Johanna Amberg – Kamera & Schnitt
Fabian Weber – Kamera
Gabriel Sahm – Kamera & Colour grading
Josko Joketovic – Audio recording
René Hofmann – Audio mixing and mastering

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