Video premiere: bell monks – keep the sunlight away

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Duo from Wisconsin, Duo, Bell monksWith Eric Sheffield and Jeff Herriott, a new video for shared Keep the sunlight awayFrom your album “Watch the snow fall”, Which was published by Wayside & Woodland at the end of last year (purchase links below).

W&W framed her creations as slow, dreamy, haunting music and told us Eric and Jeff called their music “Sleepy Rock” and mix lush sound textures with slower, mostly traditional song structures.

While both academic backgrounds have an experimental electronic composition that affect how they present and develop musical material, they appreciate the creative aspects of the recording process and often find songs in the studio. The absorption and mixing are made to tools that are used by the lack of multi-tracking, layers and the subtle use of processing techniques that you have developed in your academic careers almost how the hand loop of Himmelmagie.

Inspiration comes regularly from their natural environment – the birds, the sun, the trees and the landscape. Jeff routinely goes in the parks near his house in rural Wisconsin, rooms that, as a lyrical inspiration for a large part of her latest music, have served both in the specific description of the visual environments as well as in the philosophical sensations that these rooms have. In a way, their music invites people to slow themselves down and take a break from the technological rush, so that they may notice more of these rooms themselves or enjoy the sound of some cool synthesizers.

Take a look at the associated video for your album track. Keep the sunlight away. The song and the video are in contact, the use of time -lapse to grasp the changing shadows in a room, freeze winter on a window, pets sleeping and Jeff's non -shot texts that summon a remarkable silence when he waves the clock, the blankets “. This calm silence makes moments like Matt Onstads trumpet and trivapet. Crotales percussion all the more beautiful and relaxed.

Jeff Herriott tells us:

The song began with the key part, which is this long series of floating chords. I landed on the singing melody “Keep the Sunlight” pretty quickly and we built the route around this sentence. Sleeping is a fairly assignable feeling, especially when this alarm hits in the middle of the theft. In reality, I don't want to keep the sunlight away from everything, and the relative sunness is one of my favorite things about life in Wisconsin. I also love the cold – our album is a love letter for winter – and although the video implies that the tropics are a summer dream, I think more about the warmth of a large blanket. Almost nothing is better than a good sleep.

The video was mainly shot in or near my house in Wisconsin for several months, although I recorded the beach material while I visited friends as part of separate travel to Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Miami Beach, Florida. Eric and I were also happy to record shots with our two sun -seeking pets (my cat and his dog). As someone who likes to sleep, I have to give myself the recognition of the implementation of several dodges as part of this project.

Watching the snow is now out.

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