BRUIT ≤ release a cavernous new track, “The Intoxication of Power“, from their forthcoming album, accompanied by a truly unique video recorded with a classical ensemble inside a construction site for a metro station. “The Intoxication of Power” is the third piece to be released from their forthcoming The Age Of Ephemerality, due out on 25th of April via Pelagic.
The vastness of the band’s new album is amped up in a suitably resonant space on the new video for “The Intoxication of Power”. Recorded in January, the clip sees the band play on a new metro line being built 100 feet underground in Toulouse, taking a whole team of artists with them.
The band comment: “Like money, technology has become a power-grabbing tool whose effects are increasingly poisonous. This is the Intoxication of power, turning man’s future into a mountain of connected hubris. To illustrate this, we shot a live session accompanied by a classical ensemble, 100 feet underground in a construction site in progress. With this atypical choice of location, we wanted to evoke the underground meetings of the French Resistance, opening the door to a counter-culture in the midst of a dystopian atmosphere.”
They continue: “For the occasion we brought together a collective of artists active on the Toulouse scene, including video-makers, sound engineers, festival managers and classical musicians: 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 trumpet, 1 french horn, 1 trombone and 1 bass trombone” the band explain. “We used the site crane to lower the music, video and sound equipment.”
As the ethics of major streaming services and social media outlets come to the fore, BRUIT ≤ prepare for the timely release of their colossal new album. A philosophical, poetic and political reflection on our insatiable fascination with technology, a dependence as reverential as it is increasingly alienating and exploitative, The Age Of Ephemerality is a seismic collision of old and new, of sounds organic and electric, with the trailblazing four-piece capturing the resultant symphony in all its chaotic, confrontational glory.
