Support our efforts, sign up to a full membership!
(Start for free)
Register or login with just your e-mail address
Pop / Rock 13/03/2017

Rachel Mason Whips Up Uncanny Frenzy With Latest Single 'Sandstorm'

Hot Songs Around The World

Water
Tyla
306 entries in 20 charts
Stick Season
Noah Kahan
313 entries in 19 charts
Houdini
Dua Lipa
285 entries in 26 charts
Strangers
Kenya Grace
442 entries in 24 charts
Lovin On Me
Jack Harlow
293 entries in 22 charts
Popular
Weeknd, Playboi Carti & Madonna
266 entries in 18 charts
Lose Control
Teddy Swims
316 entries in 25 charts
Beautiful Things
Benson Boone
159 entries in 24 charts
Si No Estas
Inigo Quintero
283 entries in 17 charts
Greedy
Tate McRae
621 entries in 28 charts
Unwritten
Natasha Bedingfield
291 entries in 22 charts
Anti-Hero
Taylor Swift
615 entries in 23 charts
Cruel Summer
Taylor Swift
572 entries in 20 charts
Snooze
SZA
223 entries in 13 charts
New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Performance artist Rachel Mason presents the new video for 'Sandstorm', a track from her new album 'Das Ram' LP, co-released by Los Angeles-based Cleopatra Records and artist-run cassette label Practical Records. This eerily dramatic song was co-written and produced by Jeff Hassay, and the video was filmed by Hollywood-based cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

The 'Sandstorm' video was inspired by the otherworldly character in the Goethe poem 'Erlkoning' - a figure who terrifies a boy throughout a haunting poem. The ghostly apparition of the Erlkoning is interwoven with another set of characters who represents heavenly bodies, white dwarf stars, the final remnants of dead stars. Mason was inspired by Canadian dancer, Haylee Nichele, and their work together directly led to this video.

Rachel Mason explains: "This is fitting imagery for the apocalyptic 'Sandstorm' from my 'Das Ram' album, which presents a series of songs from the imagined perspective of mystical nonhuman figures. While Sandstorm's composition pre-dated the current Trump era, it has a foreboding sense of much of the chaos to come. "I am gonna live in a sandstorm, I am gonna let the dust make me blind. This is just the end of the road I'm on, but this is just the start of the ride."" Mason, on her part, has been actively protesting the Trump presidency through her stage persona FutureClown, whose inauguration ceremony took place simultaneous to Trump's, and who participated in the Women's March and airport protests, as well as new FutureClown weekly dispatches for the RuPaul-sponsored World of Wonder.

The new video follows those for 'Heart Explodes', which was initially shown at a festival for new video works by women artists at Red Bull Studios NYC and 'Tigers in the Dark', which first screened at the LTD Los Angeles gallery, and the latest audio-visual offering 'Roses'.

Touted as "one of the most creative forces in the world" by Impose Magazine, Mason is best known in music circles for delivering fantastical narratives which interweave musical, theatrical and narrative elements into unexpected operatic journeys. Through her wide-ranging portfolio of mixed media work, she instigates fantasy and harsh realities through scripts, sculpture, rock operas, live performances and compositions that span over a decade.

She has recorded 13 albums and created many music videos. Her feature film The Lives of Hamilton Fish toured the world in 2015 and recently released on VOD. Mason has exhibited her visual art and performance work at museums, film and performance festivals internationally and at many of the country's leading art galleries. Her work has received praise in VICE, Interview Magazine, The New York Times, Artforum, LA Weekly, The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Huffington Post, and Flash Art.

The 'Das Ram' LP is out now via Cleopatra Records, whose roster celebrates such diverse ground-breaking artists as Ministry, Wolfgang Flür, Christian Death and Iggy Pop to folk legend Judy Collins. This album is also available on limited edition cassette via Practical Records.

LA's Human Resources Gallery just hosted Rachel Mason's show 'Sirrah's Dream', the first episode in her new "The Moving Mountain" performance series, which weaves together fiction and true life stories. This new project has emerged as a result of her recent residency at Los Angeles' world-renowned Hammer Museum. Sirrah, the largest and most powerful star in the Andromeda constellation, recently detected that half of the world has been obliterated. Sirrah attempts to comprehend the destruction of an impossibly distant but beloved world as voices of real humans describe what they have discovered by living and observing planet earth. These include UCLA physicists - Professor Mayank Mehta (neurophysics) and Professor Matt Malkan (astrophysics) - as well as legendary artist Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses) and Hiroshima survivor Akiko Takakura. This performance also features Tora Kim, Rachel Mason, C. Spencer Yeh, Yoshi Sakai and Neil Malick.

On April 11, Rachel Mason will perform with The Use (a.k.a. Michael Durek), opening for acclaimed band Xiu Xiu at WFMU's Monty Hall Jersey City, NJ (43 Montgomery St.). Doors open at 8pm and the show begins at 9pm. Tickets are available at https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1391617-xiu-xiu-jersey-city

"More than a touch of Siouxie Sioux or Karen O's drama in her expressive vocals, supported by electronic pop sonics" - The Big Takeover Magazine

"A Spellbinding Singer" - New York Music Daily

"One of the most creative forces in the world" - Impose Magazine

"A voice part Emmylou Harris and part Yoko Ono" - New York Times

"Equally indebted to the Who's Quadrophenia and the Steve Reich opera The Cave, with video and music interacting in fluid, complex ways" - VICE

"Soothsayer, harlequin, medicine woman" - Top40-Charts.com

"Tempting to draw comparisons to both Kate Bush and Paul Giovanni's earthy soundtrack for The Wicker Man, but this is all Mason, her persona leaving an indelible impression on the listener" - PopMatters
LYRICS
Sing a song of something forever,
Sing about anything but right and wrong,
Man, I can't take your monologue,
People can't begin to know anything,
Anything, anything about this world!

I believe in lies,
I believe in lies,
I believe in lies and lies and lies about the world.
I believe in lies,
I believe in lies,
I believe in lies and lies and lies about the world.

Sister in the middle of a sandstorm,
Sister flying over a mountainside,
Holding to the middle of a reservoir,
Let the people cross over this continental divide!

Call upon the wind,
Call upon the sky,
Call upon my evil twin who calls upon the night!
Call upon the wind,
Call upon the sky,
Call upon my evil twin who calls upon the night!

I am going to live in a sandstorm,
I am going to let the dust make me blind,
This is just the end of the road I'm on,
But this is just the start of the ride!






Most read news of the week


© 2001-2024
top40-charts.com (S4)
about | site map
contact | privacy
Page gen. in 0.8074310 secs // 4 () queries in 0.0049588680267334 secs


live