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Sleazy video

August 2009

View the screen projection of Sleazy Peter Christopherson's version of Lama Gyurme's "Offering Chant"

In Peter's own words:

"This is the screen projection of the last song of my Threshold HouseBoys Choir show at the Equinox Festival in London's Conway Hall in June. It is my version of Lama Gyurme's wonderful "Offering Chant", from his album Rain of Blessings. I told the audience that night, the vocal was sung live by phone by a Novice Tibetan Monk in a Monastery outside Ulan Batuur. I don't know if they believed me or not, but it doesn't matter - many were in tears. Not of sadness (or joy exactly...) -I reckon we need a new category or description for kinds of tears, not recognized in the West.

In Thai, I say "I'm crying because I can feel the Gods smiling somewhere nearby." I don't think I can put it any better in English."

Adrián de Alfonso: Pleamar

Watch a short film that accompanies three tracks from sound artist and musician Adrián de Alfonso’s new album Viator.

goat (jp): Joy In Fear

Watch a 16 minute concept film of tracks from Joy In Fear, the 2023 album by Japanese rockers goat (jp)

Steph Richards “Power Vibe”

The US trumpeter shares a supernatural LA noir created with the help of generative AI for a track from her latest album Power Vibe

Xhosa Cole All Roads

The saxophonist shares a film in which he dances with his two brothers beneath Birmingham’s Spaghetti Junction

ECHOS: L'Ocelle Mare “Objets Chargés”

French label and platform Murailles Music shares the first episode in a new series of music documentaries highlighting the unique methodologies of artists on their roster

Galya Bisengalieva “Chagan”

Directed by artist Nicol Vizoli, the video for composer Galya Bisengalieva's “Chagan” reflects on the haunting nature of a radioactive lake in Kazakhstan