Video premiere: Teaadora – Pre-Agricultural…

January 3, 2011, 1 comments

There is something about Teaadora Nikolova’s music that you won’t find anywhere else these days. Driven by an ethereal and otherworldly beautiful voice, her slow-burning experimental folk songs never entirely step out of the darkness, there always remains something very unsettling about them despite a blooming surface. Pre-Agricultural Languageless Culture, taken from her forthcoming full-length, is a perfect example for her approach, an eerie, sparsely instrumented ballad that calmly meanders along, the quietness constantly being obstructed by heavy use of tape manipulation, until the whole song finally disappears in emerging clouds of drone and sheer noise. A masterpiece all along.

The accompanying video, shot by Theodore Darst and Chelsey Hoff, perfectly transfers the music’s eeriness – there is something twisted and impalpable about the blurry images of the bathing nude in the peaceful, green and blue forest landscape. The viewer is put into the position of a hidden voyeur, but at the same time, there might actually be more to this scene: Who (else) is watching her – and why? We won’t get an answer.

Teaadora’s album À Jamais Vierge / Virgin Forever will be released soon, on vinyl by Hot Releases and on CDr via the Belgian imprint MNÒAD.