The 1943 avant-garde milestone Meshes Of The Afternoon served as the principle inspiration for the fittingly surreal visible manifestation of Swimming Bell’s “95 At Evening.”
“The tune is admittedly dreamy, so I believed a dreamy video can be a very good concept,” says director Christopher Good.
Now preserved in the USA Nationwide Movie Registry, the vastly influential experimental brief movie was created by Ukrainian-born Maya Deren and her husband, Alexandr Hammid. “You may in all probability watch Meshes Of The Afternoon after which make a killer tiramisu—it’s simply usually inspirational,” says Good, a documentary filmmaker who’s additionally directed movies for Mitski, Okkervil River, Kevin Morby and others.
“95 At Evening” is the newest single from Somnia (Perpetual Doom), a gently immersive five-song EP launched in Could. With assist from Grammy-winning producer Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Kurt Vile, Guided By Voices), Swimming Bell’s Katie Schottland goes all in on Somnia’s ethereal aquatic netherworld—and its potential for serving as a form of escape hatch to a realm the place “every little thing is softened and suspended.”
Schottland was so impressed with Good’s previous work that she made the journey from Los Angeles to his dwelling base in Lenexa, Kan. “I hadn’t met Christopher, but it surely felt like we’d recognized one another perpetually,” she says. “We have been laughing the entire time. I used to be glad to provide him full management to give you the idea, figuring out that we each like absurdity.”
“Katie purchased me my first-ever espresso,” says Good. “I didn’t get hooked, however I appreciated the try.”
We’re proud to premiere Swimming Bell’s “95 At Evening.”
—Hobart Rowland
