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Beast in the Field Post New Video for “Wakan Tanka”

If you had a lot of time, you could probably compile a list of all the things Michigan instrumental duo Beast in the Field are heavier than, but you’d be busy for a while. The two-piece released the hyperbole-exhaustingly heavy The Sacred Above, the Sacred Below (review here) in March on Saw Her Ghost Records. It’s been getting steady plays since I heard it was out and bought a copy, but I’m not even sure yet if I have my head around it. The sound guitarist Jordan Pries and drummer Jamie Jahr have honed over the course of their five albums is more their own than it might initially seem, and The Sacred Above, the Sacred Below is one of those rare albums that actually captures a feeling like you’re standing in front of a wall of amplifiers.

Beast in the Field‘s new video for “Wakan Tanka” from the latest record blends performance footage with some kind of forest ritual. I’m not sure what’s going on there, but it starts out with a quote from Laguna Pueblo poet Leslie Marmon Silko and the in-the-woods portions seem to fit the ideas Silko‘s lines present, if in metaphor. I guess they’re open to interpretation, but that’s how I took it, anyway. The song is about six minutes long, so you’ve got time to make your mind up about it should you want to do so.

The clip was directed by William Saunders and if you haven’t yet had the chance to see/hear what Beast in the Field are all about, you owe it to yourself to take the bruises sure to come once the intro — taken from album opener “Great Watcher of the Sky” — gives way to the pummel of the song itself.

Enjoy:

Beast in the Field, “Wakan Tanka” official video

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