Philadelphia’s Wail are a put-up-or-shut-up kind of band, so here they are putting up. The sans-vocals four-piece released their self-titled debut (review here) in July through Translation Loss, and they now invite the audience to watch and listen as they make part of it. The video for “Astronomy” below is, by all accounts, as it happened at Red Planet Studio.

You get to see drummer Calvin Weston nailing it alongside bassist Alexi Papadopoulos and guitarists Yanni Papadopoulos and Pete Wilder, who leads the jam, and you get to see that jam come together in one of those rare moments bands talk about where everything just clicks. I interview people all the time about songwriting — it’s my favorite thing to talk about in interviews, if you couldn’t tell — and it doesn’t happen all the time or even particularly often, but every now and then someone will tell you about a magic moment where everything comes together and a song is finished being written more or less at the exact time it’s done being played through once.

Now, given the instrumentalist, improvisational nature of Wail, it’s a somewhat different case for “Astronomy,” but still, what comes through in the clip is chemistry and a union of purpose whose results speak for themselves in the song itself. There’s a reason I hosted the album stream before it came out and why I’m hosting the video premiere now. It’s because I think it’s worth your time. That’s about as straightforward as I can say it.

Hey, here’s talented people doing cool shit together. Plus some shots of space. There.

I hope you have a great day. Sincerely.

Enjoy:

Wail, “Astronomy” official video premiere

Wail on “Astronomy”:

This video is Wail live in Red Planet Studio recording our album. We were lucky to have two cameras on when we recorded the song Astronomy. We were happy with the performances and didn’t need any fixing or overdubbing. What you see is a band jamming on a groove, in other words, improvising. If the mood is right, this can capture some fantastic results, music produced by listening and reacting. Pete Wilder (guitarist – red Ibanez) wrote the groove, then took the footage and led us on a trip through the Cosmos.

The new video “Astronomy” by Philadelphia band WAIL.

Featuring Calvin Weston on drums, Pete Wilder and Yanni Papadopoulos on guitar, Alexi Papadopoulos on bass.

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Yanni Papadopoulos: guitar
Alexi Papadopoulos: bass
Pete Wilder: guitar
Grant Calvin Weston: drums

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