Video by Rachel Blumberg
from Blue Cranes - Voices (October 15th, 2021)
Blue Cranes:
Reed Wallsmith (vocals/alto saxophone/percussion)
Joe Cunningham (tenor saxophone/percussion)
Rebecca Sanborn (piano)
Jon Shaw (acoustic bass)
Ji Tanzer (drums)
w/
Peter Broderick (vocals/viola)
Holland Andrews (vocals)
Noah Simpson (flugelhorn)
Patrick Finley (trombone)
Lyrics adapted from a poem by Nico Alvarado
Music by Reed Wallsmith, Holland Andrews, Peter Broderick.
Published by Lift Music Flown Music (BMI), Bast Press (ASCAP), Erased Tapes Music.
Arranged/produced by Blue Cranes.
Recorded by Jason Powers, Josh Powell, and Reed Wallsmith.
Mixed by Todd Sickafoose.
Mastered by Gus Elg.
Thank you: Isa, Alma, Nadia, Sacha, Kavi
From Blue Cranes - Voices (2021)
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From Rachel Blumberg:
Over the past decade or so I’ve been directing and creating music videos for bands. I got into this field organically, since I am also a musician, as well as a visual artist. I’ve primarily been working in the medium of stop motion, often creating alternate worlds made from cut paper and watercolors, but I’ve also experimented with a variety of other mediums. The Back Steps is the first of several works I’ve made using actual film in addition to stop motion techniques.
The song caught my attention immediately. It’s repetition of rhythmic figures and plaintive vocal poetry mentioning girls and waves and wooden wind and other things made me imagine a microscopic world and a capturing of a moment in time. I imagined something that would make a small unseen moment of life seem grand and visible. I imagined a typewriter typing, building this world. After some time, these ideas evolved and the microscopic world became the threshold between this world and worlds that were no more. One might say between life and death, but regardless, a threshold between holding and having something and then the loss of that something. I had the idea to film children playing and moving in water, and water itself, inspired by the imagery of the lyric poem of the song, and also inspired by this feeling around the threshold of loss and the nature of time. Children's experience of time stretches out, small moments feel everlasting, and we all mourn for the loss of this sense of time, a deep nostalgia, which to me is the same feeling this song harbors. I chose film techniques that would create a grainy dreamy world for the water scenes. The elements of slowly moving waves represent a slow march, time stretched out as waves, the tide and time arriving and leaving.
And then…
After I created this piece, i finally had a chance to see the original film, called The Back Steps, by the artist Leighton Pierce, which inspired the poem by Nico Alvarado, which inspired the lyrics by Reed Wallsmith, which were sung so beautifully by Peter Broderick, Reed, and Holland Andrews, which became a song by Blue Cranes, and then turned back into this short film, a music video, and I was so struck by the iconography that seemed to move through these various forms, ending up in my piece, rather unchanged. A moment in time, of childhood, of all of our childhoods, stopped, and revisited, stretched out, multiple waves becoming an ocean of a few moments in time as a child.
(c)2022 Blue Cranes / Rachel Blumberg
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