“Somewhere“ from the new Black Marble album Fast Idol, out now on Sacred Bones Records
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Directed by Théo Sixou
Assistant: Ambre Rambaud
Production: Walid Bekhti
Production director: Amel Belghitri
Assistant: Capucine Destoc
DOP: Mario Valero & Vassili Feodoroff
Sound operator: Louis Darde
Make-up artist: Maria M Zola
Casting: Marie Mc Court
Editor : Leo Guillaume
Color grading: Adele Gregoire
Choreography: Lorenzo Dasse @yodaprocess
Young brother: Adam BB BOY @bboytaz__
Older brother: Zakaria BB BOY @bboytaz__
Dancer: Sabrina Trana @sabrinatrana
Dancer: Khaled Abdulahi @cerizz_mze
Dancer: Nacim Dante @nacim_dante
Dancer: Kimps @monsieur_kimpala
Somewhere describes a place just out of reach that serves as a diversion for the protagonist of the song, and takes their focus away from the ambiguities of their daily life. It represents a place of disinhibition where if it could only be remembered or found, the people we aim to be could for a moment be fully realized. Although its dreamlike clarity and feeling of connection may seem like an empty promise, it serves as an aspirational reminder to the protagonist of what might be.
This is Black Marbles third video with director Theo Six. The themes Theo finds when creating imagery always seem to revolve around transcendence or transformation, or a feeling of at least wanting or searching for that. I think that the idea of an artist or anyone really as a fully formed entity that is simply interacting with the world around is rather strange and although I feel that there can be pressure to come across this way, I think it’s more interesting and realistic to admit to the idea that most of us struggle to live up to some idealized projection of what we want to be or wished we were. And that this is a constantly moving target. In this way I’ve always appreciated the way Theo forms these little worlds filled with this feeling of desire for this sort of transcendence, and always trust that I’m going to relate to the way he’s seeing things.
On Fast Idol, LA-based Black Marble reaches back through time to connect with the forgotten bedroom kids of the analogue era, the halcyon days of icy hooks and warbly synths always on the edge of going out of tune. Harmonies are piped in across the expanse of space, and lyrics capture conversations that seem to come from another room, repeat an accusation overheard, or speak as if in sleep of interpersonal struggles distilled down to one subconscious phrase. At the same time, percussive elements feel forward and cut through the mix with toms counting off the measures like a lost tribe broadcasting through the bass and tops of a basement club soundsystem.
Fast Idol is Stewart’s fourth full-length album and his second for Sacred Bones. His previous album Bigger than Life was written in the face of cultural shifts in the US, in experiencing these he realised he was not keyed into certain negative sentiments that were bubbling below the surface, which were breaking out into the open. “I chose to try and take the approach of a soothsayer writing from a macro level, trying to find strands of connection between us because it didn’t feel appropriate to create something self referential and gloomy at the time,” he says.
Stewart writes and plays everything himself, and tours with a rotating cast of players. Emerging from the early 2000s New York synth scene, Black Marble carried on the tradition of early synthwave pioneers like Martin Dupont and Modern Art who repurposed synths once reserved for expensive studios and stadium rock superstars. Available widely and cheaply for the first time, these synths became a staple for bedroom artists – connecting wires and twisting knobs into something that felt entirely new. Seeking to channel this spirit, Black Marble recalls the gauzy tape wow and flutter of The Membranes and the warbling VCO of Futurisk, carrying on a sound that seeks to channel the future while imprinting residue of the past. These early reference points are still audible, an electronic sound steeped in punk spirit, galvanised by passion: “When I started making songs I got enough positive feedback just to keep me going,“ Stewart says, “and then I never stopped.“
Black Marble was signed with just one song available online, and Stewart has been writing songs and making music ever since, beginning with A Different Arrangement on Hardly Art in 2012, followed by It’s Immaterial in 2016 on Ghostly International and Bigger Than Life on his current label Sacred Bones in 2019, with two EPs also to his name.
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