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Baby Woodrose Post “Reality” Video Filmed at Roskilde Festival

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Considering Roskilde Festival 2017 only ended on July 1 and Danish heavy psych magnates Baby Woodrose performed that same day, it seems fair enough to call their new video fast-tracked. The clip features the song ‘Reality,’ which provided an otherworldly opening to 2016’s Freedom (review here), the band’s seventh album, released by Bad Afro Records. It was shot on multiple cameras and fluidly edited by Palle Demant, whose experience with the band includes a documentary about frontman Lorenzo Woodrose and recent videos for “21st Century Slave” (posted here) and “Open Doors” (review here), the latter of which served as the leadoff single and foreshadowed the expanded-consciousness perspective that would unfold across the record upon its arrival.

“Reality,” for its part, gets to the core of what Baby Woodrose are saying with Freedom. Their position is inherently sociopolitical, and one can hear shades of that critique even in the hook here — it’s “your” concept of reality in which Lorenzo and company refuse to believe — but there’s no taking them away from their roots in lysergic garage rock, and part of the charm of “Reality” becomes the fact that, even as it tackles issues of a mundane modernity, it sounds utterly out of place and time. Unreal, in other words. This duality shows itself too in the play between grounded structures and head-trip effects throughout Freedom, but the quality of Baby Woodrose‘s songwriting is unflinching, and as the album’s launch-point, “Reality” effectively conveys that as well.

Their Roskilde set apparently found them bathed in tripped out lighting helmed by Zeppo, and to say the least it’s a fitting setting for the song, but Demant also offers some backstage footage and scenes from the audience to give even more of a sense of the show itself. All the more impressive considering — again — it’s been less than a week since the festival actually took place. That might be a record turnaround on something that looks so outwardly professional. I’d have to go back and check the logs.

Note: there are no logs.

Point is, admirable job done by band and director. Enjoy “Reality” below:

Baby Woodrose, “Reality” official live video

Reality is taken from the Baby Woodrose album Freedom released in September 2016 on Bad Afro Records.

Shot and cut by Palle Demant // Fuzz Cake Film
Mind bending visuals by Zeppo

Reality is the first song on the Freedom album and it now has a live video. Footage is from 3 days ago when the band played at the Roskilde Festival. The video is filmed by Palle Demant who also did the Lorenzo Woodrose documentary called Born To Lose.

Freedom is the 7th album by Baby Woodrose and it was released more than four years after the previous album Third Eye Surgery came out in 2012. In the meantime Lorenzo has been busy with his other band Spids Nøgenhat who gained a lot of popularity in Denmark and won two Danish Grammies for the album “Kommer Med Fred”. Best rock album of the year and Best live band of the year.

Lorenzo Woodrose documentary on Thee Facebooks

Baby Woodrose on Thee Facebooks

Freedom at Bad Afro Records’ Bandcamp

Bad Afro Records website

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