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"Colony Collapse" by Filastine
Spain based producer (by way of New York state) Filastine brings you the video for the new song "Colony Collapse." The song is a mixture of heavy bass, starkly bright melodies, and haunting vocals by singer Nova. The video enhances the political messages behind the song through the locations used in the shoot. As Filastine explains:
Colony Collapse is filmed at sites of ecological friction, the fault lines of conflict between humanity and (the rest of) nature. It is a video made to confront and indict the ongoing catastrophes that are the very fabric of our globalized economic order. For examples we used....
Lapindo (Sidoarjo) Mud Disaster is an eruption of scalding mud and flammable vapors triggered by a gas drilling gone awry. It has buried more than a dozen villages and blocked a major highway, and is expected to keep expanding for the next 25 years. Lapindo is located close to the home town of the the director (Tooliq) and singer (Nova).
Below a freshly shattered dam on the shoulder of Merapi mountain. This required a meeting with an important Islamic mountain shaman, who wanted to know we weren't up to anything frivolous or disrespectful. After the vetting he sent his crew to guide and protect us, some men went upriver a few kilometers to warn us by mobile phone if a new flood was coming down.
Bantar Gebang is a landscape of trash. Garbage stretches farther than the eye can see. Mountains, rivers, and even villages where the trash-pickers live. Not something easy to summarize in words.
A supermarket nested in a mega-mall within a skyscraper. Air conditioning, shopping carts, muzak, just like any posh supermarket. But right outside is a the permanent traffic jam of Jakarta, a sprawling mega-city of at least 10 million.
The track along with remixes is currently available digitally. Filastine will release his latest album £00T April 3, 2012 and playing in Santa Monica on April 4 as part of a West Coast tour. Other cities include Portland, San Diego, and Seattle. 03/21/12 >> go there
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