Russo – Pressure Palace
Russo – Pressure Palace (2015)
Directed by: Ari Russo
Multi-disciplinary artist Ari Russo bends the visual detritus of our immediate past and DIY lines of code into sneakily gorgeous instrumentals and eerily disaffected videos.
Russo closed out 2014 listed amongst XLR8R’s top 50 tracks of the year and manning groundbreaking 3D visuals for Torn Hawk and UK duo Psychemagik in London.
His latest single/video ‘Pressure Palace‘—released through New Ancestors the art-collective & label started by The Hundred In The Hands (Warp records)—adds skittering electric guitars and chiming harmonics to the outstanding synth-led workouts of the Wild Metals EP (Valcrond Video, 2014). It’s an altogether more human realisation couched in static and tightly propulsive.
The video for ‘Pressure Palace‘ is a wild outgrowth of sub-realities and subliminal desire, a close look at the secret sex-life of objects and a sardonic glare at the authoritarian over-stimulation of modern life. Images are culled from his deep archive of VHS and laserdiscs through his self-made VZ program. The result is an ephemeral cinema of dystopian erotica and consumption set to a slow-pulsing futurist soundscape.
Watch the video for Russo‘s ‘Pressure Palace‘ exclusively on AltSounds.com.
New Ancestors:
https://www.newancestors.nyc/
https://soundcloud.com/newancestors
Ari Russo:
https://soundcloud.com/arirusso
