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Mars Red Sky Post “Crazy Hearth” Video

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If the planet were operating in the manner which we as humans thought it might be just a few short months, ago, French progressive heavy psychedelic rockers Mars Red Sky would be heading to North America this month for a tour supporting 2019’s The Task Eternal (review here) that would have begun May 28 in Chicago and run through Monolith on the Mesa (which has been pushed back to September) and finished in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 7. It was to be presented by this site, among others. Well, of course it’s not happening — how could it?

To be sure, that’s a bummer, but if you look at the video for “Crazy Hearth,” which the Bordeaux three-piece filmed prior to the pandemic with director Seb Antoine — he did their 2016 “Alien Grounds” short film (posted here) and has worked with them on other clips too — it ends up being a pretty striking reminder not just of what we all miss at this point, which is being together, but inevitably of what we’re staying apart now to preserve.

In the video we see the band — guitarist/vocalist Julien Pras, bassist/sometimes vocalist Jimmy Kinast and drummer Mat Gazeau — making their way to a meetup in the woods. Gazeau goes by canoe, and there’s hiking and cool drone shots of the band playing spliced in, and in the end, everyone gets together and they leave in the canoe after building the titular hearth. It has enough heart and is certainly earthy enough to earn the wordplay of the song’s name, but given the context in which the video arrives, it’s hard not to appreciate the simple togetherness and the obvious bond the trio display, while they’re playing and while they’re not.

That’s why we’re quarantined. Because at some point, we want to be able to go back to that without risking harm to one another, and this seems to be the road that gets us there. It’s easy math to do and a hard way to live, but that’s what it’s all about.

Mars Red Sky, “Crazy Hearth” official video

“We got in touch again with Seb Antoine, the best film director ever, to shoot our ***NEW VIDEO CLIP for CRAZY HEARTH*** before the Covid mess. We are particularly proud of this one and really hope you’ll will like it as much as we enjoyed making it.”

From the new album ‘The Task Eternal’ out September 27th 2019 on Listenable Records.

Directed By Seb Antoine
Assistant : Sophie Labruyere
Special Thanks to Mr Gazeau for the Canoe

Recorded and mixed by Benjamin Mandeau at Cryogene Studio, mastered by Pierre Etchandy.

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