WATCH HERE: Disturbing experimental music video took two years to make
Edmonton musician Brian Raine spent two years making a stop-motion video for his song Hurting Other People – an astounding labour of love whose result begs comparisons to those famously creepy Tool videos that used to get banned all the time.
In this black and white film for Raine’s experimental project Ways in Waves, we see grotesque babies writhe under the torment of nasty octopi. Very disturbing. Likewise the music – which sounds like it comes from another planet: A cinematic symphony of odd and haunting harmonics, combining electronic rhythms with organic instruments, eerie vocals on top, and lyrics like this: “When you sit and you eat, you make rare meat out of kids made from string and dreams.”
There’s a message here.
Raine – a MacEwan music grad, no surprise – says he got the idea for Hurting Other People from an “existential crisis” he suffered in Sport Chek. “I was trying to buy a pair of shoes,” he says, “and looking at all the brands and trying to be an ethical consumer – and realizing that no matter what I did I would be hurting someone, somewhere … There’s no right direction to go.”
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Hurting Other People is one of 11 outworldly tracks contained on Ways in Waves’ debut album, Bloodless Arches. The band plays its CD release show Saturday, June 15 at the Aviary.
