Kadavar Post Video for “Pale Blue Eyes”
I’ll be honest with you, I think if I was Kadavar, I’d make a video for every track on Berlin too. The German trio’s third album (review here) came out last year on Nuclear Blast, and it was one of 2015’s strongest front-to-back collections. Even when they eased off the swing and bounce and classic-style hooks that have typified their career to-date, they sacrificed nothing of the quality of their songwriting. So yeah, it was basically 12 singles. A corresponding 12 videos kind of makes sense given the context of the record in question. Wouldn’t always work, but could definitely work this time.
Somewhat curious though, in that they already had videos for “The Old Man” (posted here) and “Last Living Dinosaur” (posted here). It doesn’t seem like those will count toward the new total of Berlin clips to be released over the course of the year, but who knows? A band like Kadavar come out of nowhere and say, “Oh by the way, we’re going to do a series of videos and release them one per month for the rest of 2016” (come to think of it, I bet they have a new record out when they’re done), and I wouldn’t dare speculate as to what that might actually entail. This time around, it’s a nice walk through the Californian desert with Mopard, the Wizard of East Jesus, who wins at life. No contest. You thought you might’ve won? Nope. Mopard wins. Sorry.
Kadavar head to Australia next month (dates here) on a run put together by Life is Noise, and will apparently have another video to come in short order. One a month is a pretty good clip to maintain, but a reminder every few weeks of how badass Berlin was is hardly unwelcome by me. Dig the video below, followed by copious background off the PR wire.
Enjoy:
Kadavar, “Pale Blue Eyes” official video
After excessively touring with their recent album Berlin in 2015, KADAVAR has cooked up a new and exciting project for 2016, to keep them and their followers busy during the winter-break. Together with long-time friend and collaborator Nathini van der Meer , who has created artwork and videos for them in the past, they are working on their first “Visual Album”- 12 short films accompanying each of the albums’ songs, to be released once a month throughout the entirety of the year.
Lupus Lindemann wrote the song “Pale Blue Eyes” when KADAVAR visited the Salton Sea on their first trip through the United States, playing the stage of the infamous “Range” at the Slab City Prom 2013. Slab City or “The Slabs” is a snowbird campsite in the Californian Sonora Desert 156 miles northeast of San Diego, where RV-people, outlaws and squatters from across North America formed a wild and lawless “city” from debris around the famous and colorful Salvation Mountain build by Leonard Knight in the 1980s.
There are no rules in the slabs (besides “Don’t be an asshole”) and during one of those memorable Slab City nights, the KADAVAR guys found themselves dancing around the fire alongside this wild desert bunch, dressed in discarded ball-gowns, and watching the sunrise from atop the salvation mountain. This song, an ode about “a mysterious lady with pale blue eyes”, is actually about cross-dressing drummer Tiger in his purple dress, looking so fine.
For the first video release of this visual album, Nathini van der Meer traveled back into the desert to find a real Slab City original – Mopard the Wizard of East Jesus – whom she followed on one of his walks through the desert.
Tags: Berlin, Germany, Kadavar, Kadavar Berlin, Nuclear Blast Records
