Montreal’s Busty & The Bass Announce New Video Suite For ‘KARNEVAL EP’ With “Everything Comes In Waves”
Busty and The Bass announce the KARNEVAL EP Video Suite and share Chapter 1, accompanying the track “Everything Comes In Waves”. With a new visual chapter coming each week, the four part video suite gives the group a creative opportunity that you typically wouldn’t see with an EP.
“The concept to do a series of video chapters for KARNEVAL, instead of one single music video, allowed us to showcase the different styles and unique elements from several songs off the EP,” says the band’s Alistair Blu. “It also gave us the opportunity to highlight all of the vocalists from the project: STS (Berlin-based, ATL-born rapper, stylist, and photography connoisseur), Jordan Brown (Philly-based singer/songwriter), Mel Pacifico (longtime Montreal-based collaborator and live-show companion), and myself. Director Jean-Luc Oicle translated the quirky and soulful themes from the EP into four distinct chapters, with each carrying a broader narrative over the course of the series.”
The track itself is a laid back, jazz-funk infused tune. Shot amid provincial style buildings with the forest surrounding them, the visual offers a similar laid back, carefree vibe, showing the band playing in the open air, hanging out of windows and vocalists Pacifico and Brown wandering the property capturing vlog style video.
“In collaboration with Busty and The Bass, we decided to go with a performance-based narrative exploring themes of relationship and nostalgia with a hint of KARNEVAL,” says Oicle. “In keeping the conceptual dimension of the video light, we gave space for Busty and The Bass to carry us forward through their dynamic performances. We explored various cinematic techniques to work synergistically with the energy of each song, driving home an emotion, or just keeping things funky and progressive!”
KARNEVAL was released earlier this year. Stay tuned for video suite chapters 2 through 4 as they release over the next few weeks.
