YOUNG MAGIC share their latest video for their track 'Lucien', a track and video made as a tribute to the spirits.
The video for 'Lucien' starts off with a computerized voice reciting a poem before taking it's time building up to the start of the track by using ambient sounds, distant screeches and bells before starting with the track. The main visual is lead singer Melati Malay singing amidst smoke in the woods, with cuts to different situations based around the singer. The vocal performance in the track is fantastic and blends perfectly with the production which is also great, overall the music complements the video very well.
I feel like the best way to describe what the intention of the video is by giving this quote by Melati Malay on the inspiration for this track/video:
"I started making 'Lucien' in small shack by the water, I spent half a month gathering field recordings, collecting stories and writing music. There is a day called Nyepi or 'Day of Silence' where no one leaves the house because it’s believed bad spirits fly over the island. They burn effigies of their monsters (Ogoh Ogoh) and then everyone hides indoors for 24 hours. It’s incredible, the streets are completely empty. I’m not sure if these ghosts still follow me in New York, but making 'Lucien' was my way to make an effigy of my own Ogoh Ogoh, and then burn it to the ground."
Words by Aiden Benavides
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