Fhunyue Gao & Sven Kacirek - Bowie (Official Video)

»Bowie« off the debut album »Hoya« by Fhunyue Gao & Sven Kacirek.
Video by Annalena Fröhlich
Starring Fhunyue Gao and Annalena Fröhlich
Additional footage of the astronaut scene by Diego Moscoso and Yannick Mosimann
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»Weltschmerz und Schadenfreude« or the melancholy and awe for destruction. An old world collapsing - nature inexistent, memories flickering. Trapped in a screen, the air slowed. Jaded of life, hallucinating an outer world in a voyage out through the pixel. But out where? There? Day dreaming tirelessly in solitude, whilst looking fascinated at the concept: apocalypse. Hoping to meet someone else in the same situation, to share this sentiment with, she, her? You?
Everything seems vacuous - the constricted and gloomy sphere of a lethargic person radiates and engulfs the air. Staring at you, whilst showing you a world fall apart, Sit in the car with her, will you? And if something feels off course reset your mood, only you feel misplaced. Check your field of associations, you'll be just fine because future, present, past? Does it matter in a virtual world? Or is it just a loop of virtual pixels and the smell of dead leather? Four chords for melancholia - a bubble, a drop of hope remains. Follow the sound to get out. What is yet to come animates us in an unclear, yet open space for the viewer and listener to elaborate their own associative space of interpretation, and fall into the edges of the videoclip directed and created by Annalena Fröhlich to the song »Bowie« by Fhunyue Gao & Sven Kacirek.
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»Hoya«, the first collaborative record from Fhunyue Gao and Sven Kacirek, is a site of encounters. There’s the encounter between two different media and artistic conceptions: Gao, on the one hand, a stage director | performer | musician based in Switzerland, a frequent collaborator of Annalena Fröhlich’s, Thom Luz’s and many others, who works for a most colourful variety of venues all over Europe and is a member of the music association Bongo Joe. Kacirek, on the other, an established musician living between Hamburg and Kenya, with several releases on labels such as Honest Jon’s and Bureau B under his belt and an equally illustrious and diverse list of collaborators, among them Shabaka Hutchings, Ogoya Nengo, Marc Ribot, John McEntire, Hauschka and Nils Frahm.
What began with a chance encounter while working together on a dance project in the Netherlands, quickly became clear to the two of them as a shared musical sensitivity demanding further exploration. At the center of this stood an encounter between their instruments and the different modes of expression they afford: playing combinations of marimbas, drums, percussions, electronics, theremin, Buchla synthesizer, and piano, off-rehearsal sessions during Gao’s and Kacirek’s subsequent collaborations for theater continually grew in importance for the two of them.
When they decided to elaborate these explorations in a project entirely their own, the two of them locked themselves into Kacirek’s studio at Jaffestrasse in Hamburg, and started working on »Hoya«. Over the course of the LP’s 40-minute runtime, what once began as an unlikely meeting is presented as a playful, unpredictable, yet deeply developed and substantial affair. Sublime, ethereal layers of synth and theremin are counterpoised by delicate and shifty bouts of percussion. A labor of love that truly stands on its own.

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