NEW RELEASE: John Vanderslice "Trance Manual"

John Vanderslice
"Trance Manual" (Barsuk)
Brent Chesanek, director/editor |2042F, production co | Jesse Roff, DP | Description: John Vanderslice describes this song in the User's Guide to his new album Pixel Revolt as being about "a western journalist [who] makes a meaningful (and metaphorical?) visit to an Iraqi prostitute." The video doesn't depict that, but it does capture the desperate need for human connection and warmth and beauty and solace in an absurd and absurdly dangerous situation. The video features actress Amelia Martin all alone in a field on a starry night. With nothing more than a match, she begins a conversation with a blinking light on the horizon. The light soon starts to rove back and forth before transforming into a beautiful display of Aurora Borealis before unfortunately terminating in tracer fire and other proof that things are way beyond her control. -- watch "Trance Manual"