Hey everyone! I hope you are doing okay. I am about to complete yet another trip around the sun.
I like to introduce different artists – ones who may have been overlooked – and Jenny Hval seems to be precisely the sort of recording artist I would have in mind.
Her label, 4AD, has either launched or rejuvenated the careers of a number of intriguing recording artists for roughly four decades now.
Cheers!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o7Xem1Ze-c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZUQ59UjCR0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjMJe8xKlqE
So powerful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omEX35pbelI
That video really got my attention when it first dropped. I forget which MTV knock-off show I saw it on first and which UHF station. Still timely.
One of the first gigs I worked on my current job involved a career retrospective of Chuck Statler, the director of several early Devo videos like Satisfaction. Early Elvis Costello like this one:
https://youtu.be/Ssd3U_zicAI
And this tidbit by J. Geils.
https://youtu.be/E0LAs7X5ybE
That must have been a cool project to work on. Appears he was directing at least a few of the videos I was seeing back in my teens, and he was working with some pretty consequential recording artists of the day.
Devo performing their cover of Satisfaction on SNL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04pbtf5t_LU