Arca – Reverie
Arca – Reverie (2017)
Directed by: Jesse Kanda
Arca today presents a brand new song and video from his forthcoming, self-titled third album. Shot in one take and featuring Arca (aka Alejandro Ghersi) front-and-centre both visually and vocally, the stunning ‘Reverie’ video was created by longtime visual collaborator Jesse Kanda, who also directed the video for previous Arca cut, ‘Anoche’
In ‘Reverie’. Arca is a wounded matador, made mighty with mechanical legs, or bleeding onto falling flower petals “Bullfighting is a piercing metaphor: you are fighting a bull, and at the same your self. You are not the victim or the oppressor, you are both— Animality and bestiality are conflated,” he says. “Evoking sex invokes our animality.” On this new album, the opposite also holds true. “And evoking our animality, in turn, invokes spirituality.”
