NEWS: Hey Mother Death releases new video by Heather Rappard
Watch "Desert of Trees and Water" from Hey Mother Death: Vimeo
Heather Rappard,
one of Halifax's finest up and coming media artists, has crafted a
mezmorizing video piece for avant-goth duo Hey Mother Death. The video
was originally screened earlier this month at OBEY Convention V in Halifax, Nova Scotia and today sees its internet debut on Weird Canada. Hey Mother Death will be performing live at Sappyfest 6 on August 3rd.
Hey Mother Death
Hey Mother Death
is a spontaneous project by partners Denma Peisinger and Laurence
Strelka. Using a mix of both French and English spoken word,
avant-guitar exploration, minimalist organ, and even dub reggae, the duo
have created a dark and mesmerizing moodscape on their debut EP.
This first
release is a triptych journey. Spontaneously composed and recorded,
these pieces are dark, gritty, and textural. The recordings literally
capture the first moments Denma and Laurence sat down with instruments
together. Produced by the duo themselves in various unconventional
spaces, almost every first take was used. Although Denma and Laurence
had no preconceptions going into the project, their work demonstrates an
intense direction and connection that is both shockingly free and wild.
The result is part sound track, part performance art, and part free
jazz.
Laurence Strelka
lives in Paris, France where she worked in fashion and has been an
autodidact artist—writing, playing music, making photography, and
shooting experimental shorts. The spontaneity and freedom of her
lifestyle, the Paris scene, and her relationships have been her main
influences. One of the most formative and outrageous of these
relationships was with the cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain),
who helped launch her career as a theatre actress. Laurence is
presently based between Paris and Halifax and is awaiting the release of
her first feature film.
Denma Peisinger
grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was nurtured by the closeness of
nature, the Halifax music scene and his immersion in the teachings,
examples and practices of the crazy-wisdom lineage of Chogyam Trungpa.
Inspired by bluesmen and the beats, he spent two years hitchhiking
across North and South America with his slide guitar. This sojourn ended
with the years-long apprenticeship and continuing friendship with San
Franciscan, free-jazz visionary Jerry Granelli (Ornette Coleman, Sly Stone, Rock Roll Hall of Fame, etc).
Laurence and
Denma met two years ago on a train platform at night, outside of a
dilapidated telephone utility building in the outskirts of Paris. They
were both going to study with Philippe Gaulier, one of the last
great masters of old-school theatre. Love happened. Denma spent the last
two years in Paris and is currently based between Paris and Halifax.
Heather Rappard
Heather Rappard
is an intermedia artist who uses the evocative quality of sound to
create experimental artistic music videos. By blending a variety of
methods and formats she composes a visual experience to work
symbiotically with the sound. Based out of Halifax her work has been
shown at Nocturne, the OBEY Convention, Halifax Pop Explosion, and the Halifax Independent Film Festival, as well as featured on EXCLAIM!, Stereogum, Impose Magazine, Noisey, and Weird Canada.
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http://heymotherdeath.com/
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