Honcho Post Animated Video for “Clovers”
Posted in Bootleg Theater on December 8th, 2015 by JJ Koczan
It’s been five — count ’em, five — years since Norwegian heavy rockers Honcho released their third album, Battle of Wits. If you’re unfamiliar, the band got started in 1998, have been featured on numerous compilations since then, including the 2011 assemblage Cowbells and Cobwebs (review here), and their 2002 debut, Corporate Rock features one of the most quintessentially stoner rock album covers of all time. Look it up. Not at work.
I don’t know for how many of the five years since Battle of Wits was issued the video for “Clovers” has been in the works, but the impression I have is at least the last couple. A delay is understandable. Even digital, the animation in the video is painstakingly fluid as it follows a protagonist down through what, if it isn’t a metaphor for depression could just as easily serve as one, complete with dancing bone monsters and all. The clip is hypnotic and the song is correspondingly moody and contemplative, the five-piece of vocalist Trond Skog, guitarists Håkon Eng and Halvor Berg, bassist Steinar Knapstad and drummer Kenneth Andersen building it to a resonant apex by the finish of its seven and a half minutes.
Honcho posted some in-studio photos earlier this year, and though it was six between 2004’s Burning in Water, Drowning in Fire and Battle of Wits, five years seems like long enough for them to at least have started to put a fourth long-player together. Whether or not that’s the case, I’ll keep an eye out, but as “Clovers” demonstrates, there’s clearly some mileage left for Battle of Wits as well.
Video follows here. Please enjoy:
Honcho, “Clovers” official video
The five horsemen of the apocalypse ride again. Manuel Ferrari, an internationally renowned animator from France, have spent three years of his life making a hypnotic and emotional video for he Honcho song “Clovers”.
We would specifically like to thank Mr Manuel Ferrari, our main man in Amsterdam, for making all this possible, and for excellent artwork.
Credits:
Production company: Ambassadors
http://www.theambassadors.nl/
Director: Manuel Ferrari
Edit: Erik Verhulst
Sound: Rens Pluijm
CG artists: Manuel Ferrari, Alex Doss
Music: Honcho
Honcho is:
Trond Skog, vocals
Steinar Knapstad, bass
Kenneth Andersen, drums
Halvor Berg, guitar
Håkon Eng, guitar
Clovers is from our album “The Battle of Wits,” 2010
