Couple of months ago I met Sto @ a Babycastles event, where he had a weird noise music performance with a shopping cart he probably stole for his project Stolen Temple Pileups. I forgot to ask him is it really stolen, but anyway we met, smoked together and I interviewed him.
Couple of days after, he called me back and invited me to participate in the filming of the new Man Forever video. I said “Yes, I’m down”. At the charming studio above Williamsburg Music Hall I met him this time as Sto – the artist with the haunting spirals, that you follow with your eyes until you lose where they go. May be you recognize his distinctive style, from the backstage mural of 285 Kent?
We were filming the new video for Man Forever – equally abstract drone band, brainchild of Kid Millions from Oneida. In the highly experimental and meditative project he’s also joined by Richard Hoffman from Sightings, the drummer of Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Brian Chase, the bassist of Vampire Weekend – Chris Baio, Greg Fox from Liturgy and Guardian Angel, Sarah Richardson from The Creeping Nobodies and few others – some of the musicians you’ll see in the video of “Ur eternity“.
& While you’re getting hypnotized under the repetative drum rhytmes Sto starts adding colors to his painting, people appear and disappear with or without cameras, musicians are tunning and plugging in their guitars, chatting while drumming & the spirals keep going on and on and on.
Here is the video itself. Nick Chatfield-Taylor aka Catfish did a great job putting everything together and directing this drone madness. And I’m glad to participate in it.
Man Forever, Sto & Nick Chatfield-Taylor – Ur Eternity from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.
Flowers in the barrel of a gun. 