Video Premiere: Pierrot Lunaire – “Take Me With You”.
December 6, 2011, 0 comments
We don’t know if it was Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg‘s Dreimal sieben Gedichte aus Albert Girauds ‘Pierrot lunaire’ that inspired John DeNizio to use this particular moniker, or rather Albert Giraud‘s poem cycle itself, but we assume that the Winnipeg resident would be an amazing artistic figure even without such a learned choice of name. In any case, his outsider pop project is one of the most unique and special we’ve come across this year. Pierrot Lunaire‘s employment of the saxophone is indeed something you’ll rarely see in contemporary underground, as are DeNizio’s free-floating jazz influences that coalesce marvelously with his noise-infused pop harmonizations that are constantly hidden behind a thick fog of muffling tape manipulations.
“Take Me With You” is one of the two tracks on Pierrot Lunaire’s forthcoming 7 inch on our beloved LaGrange, Georgia imprint Hooker Vision, marking a depart from their existence as a tape-only label. Below, you may listen to an excerpt of the track, beautifully visualized by Hooker Vision’s Rachel Evans (aka MSOTT). Make sure to get your hands on one of the vinyls which will be released in January in a strictly limited edition of 200. Highly recommended.
