“Bos Taurus” is a wild animal consuming the past, applying some echo and fuzz, and presenting it to the future in a vivid brew of technicolor splendor. It is a rock record. It is a baroque punk record. It is a post-processual archaeology record that you will sing along with and want to play again and again.
From director Zoë Dehmer, the music video “Bos Taurus,” from Celestogramme’s newest album, Wish Vehicles, explores the underlying goal of all ritual — transformation. Drawing upon common iconographic elements of ancient Minoan religion, “Bos Taurus” explores the multisensory ways we both reconstruct the past and imagine and amplify it in novel ways. The transformative act in this video, based on rituals of the Minoan civilization in 1500 BC, presents a symbolic "taming" of natural forces. We hope to illuminate some of the ways these elements — the snake, double axe, and horns of consecration — could have been employed in personal contexts. The divinity is approached through wild animals, which simultaneously fill one with both desire and fear.
Songwriter and archaeologist Amanda Lindsey’s single “Bos Taurus” aims a radio telescope at the cosmos and drives a golden stake into the hard rock of the planet. This is the quantum intersection between deep time and the fleeting present. Ancient objects and concepts are filtered through a rainbow lens of glittering psychedelic pop music and re-contextualized as metaphors for personal integration with the eternal mysteries of the universe.
