Video Premiere: Celebration, 'Evergreen'
- Posted on Sep 26th 2007 12:00AM by Mike Spinella
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Baltimore trio Celebration unveils the first video from their forthcoming, Dave Sitek-produced album, 'The Modern Tribe.' Director Matt Goldman takes the band on a journey through a thoroughly eerie fantasy landscape.
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Musicat 2-22-2008
That's very great.
Celebrationat 9-26-2007
Hi this is Katrina from Celebration. When 4AD told us the video would be premiering on this site, spinner.com asked 4AD for a statement from us about the video or video's in general. We gave them a quote that we found to sum up our thoughts on the matter perfectly. But for some reason they didn't post it. Maybe it was too long. Anyhow here's the quote:
"Daniel Dennett, for example, has explained (and complained about) the way in which our ideas of consciousness are dominated by that ideal inner observatory he calls the 'Cartesian Theater'. Warner here shows how complex and versatile the interaction has been between mind and other forms of visual technology, running through the elaborate phantasmagoria or magic-lantern shows of the early nineteenth century, the many uses of photography, and the development of cinema. Her discussion of the idea of soul-stealing in the context of imperial and ethnographic photography is particularly subtle and arresting. I am persuaded by her suggestion that the belief, commonly reported of 'savage' peoples, that the camera will steal their souls, may in fact be the displacement of an intense suspicion on the part of those behind the lens that they might indeed be purloining some vital part of their subjects. It was after all Honor%uFFFD de Balzac who confided to the photographer F%uFFFDlix Nadar his belief that the human body consisted of a succession of layers, superimposed in infinitesimal films, which were stripped away every time a photograph was taken. Photographer and subject seem to share a recognition that the photograph is instinct with spirit, and thus never merely dead matter. For this very reason, the grave portraits of those Plains Indians, like Sitting Bull, who consented to be photographed, may also be seen as conscious efforts on their part at soul-conserving, at a time when their cultures were vanishing around them." -Steven Connor "Her Light Materials"
Gonzoat 9-26-2007
Man .. heavy comments from Katrina .. took too much man!! :) Hey, beautiful, beatufitul song .. very lush .. I love the video and the imagery really captures the songs energy. Great work! Kinda heavy eh? .. but as your attorney, I advise you not to worry. Take a hit out of that little brown bottle in my shaving kit ... Pure Adrenochrome.
Jeff Douganat 9-26-2007
I love Celebration. I really do, but this video, not to mention the accompanying commentary is hokey as a mug (that's FCC for "motherfucker"). The video, sans-sound, conjures a half-baked (if that's imaginable) Stevie Nicks meets The [British] Office's David Brent parodying Gamble & Huff's "If You Don't Know Me By Now" (see http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1642657257210143644&q=david+brent+music+video&total=97&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0) in some sort of The Dead-meets . . . Whatever. Why are they in the desert anyway? They're from Baltimore. Celebration is one of the few relextant (yes, I just made that word up)rock bands in America. Next time, please think Aretha and leave Uri Geller out of it (although I think he's more into spoons than crystals. You get the point.).
Aaron Reiberat 10-01-2007
Celebration represents everything right about music today. If you have ever seen them perform you know what I mean. I cannot wait to hear the rest of new album.
justinat 9-26-2007
A video for this song was completely, and utterly unnecessary.
Celebrationat 9-26-2007
Wow I can really feel your love with these last two coments.
thanks
Steve Bakerat 9-27-2007
THIS IS A GREAT VIDEO! It fits the song perfectly and has an otherworldliness to it that only Celebration could occupy.
Where was it shot??
Viva Radioat 11-28-2007
Hey Celebration Fans! This Thursday, November 29th at 9 PM Viva Radio presents The Adolescent Sessions featuring these amazing 4AD recording artists. Recorded live by proxy at Brooklyn’s UnionDocs Bodega, Celebration explore songs from The Modern Tribe and talk to host Billy J about the expanding cosmos and everything in between. Tune in to www.viva-radio.com and experience the magic.