MONCHMONCH takes one other chew with the video for “Vampira,” his seconds single from the brand new album GUARDILHA ESPANCA TATO, out now through Seloki data. The Brazilian singer’s title is an onomatopoetic reference to his digestive method, chewing up punk rock alongside Brazilian influences and experimental sounds. “Vampira” takes the theme a step additional, putting the German expressionist aesthetic contained in the stomach of poet Oswald de Andrade’s Anthropophagist Manifesto, a radical modernist textual content urging Brazilian artists to devour and digest the tradition of their European colonizers as a way of liberation.
The video for “Vampira” brings the Vampiric mythos again to the chiaroscuro roots of Nosferatu, enjoying with the distinction between mild and shadow, as MONCHMONCH crawls by way of an deserted room, drawn to the beams of sunshine but determined to keep away from them. This primary half of the observe options among the sparsest instrumentation on the album, constructing pressure by way of absence, vamping on a single chord till the scene shifts and MONCHMONCH is on stage, all of a sudden performing.
This shift is accompanied by the candy launch of a chord change, signaling the beginning of a musical climax whose success can be the last word launch of Dying. Within the autopsy instrumental break, the band gathers spherical and ceremonially covers MONCHMONCH with filth, however the closing shot is of his open eyes, signifying the inevitable transformative return.
The query “Vampira” poses is that this: who’s the vampire, the ‘you’ that MONCHMONCH sings to? Is it a lover? A listener? A complete society? A worldwide monetary system designed to extract the very lifeblood of each artist and viewers? Maybe it’s all this stuff, and extra. Central to fable of the vampire is the transmissibility of the situation as a way of perpetuation, the best way through which the sufferer can be stuffed with the thirst, and rises in undeath, ever compelled to take the following chew. We devour and are consumed by all of it, all the time, residing partly within the shadows, and partly within the mild.
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