San Francisco experimental rock band Oxbow release "Gunwale" music video
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San Francisco experimental rock band Oxbow have delivered the music video for their song "Gunwale" today.
The video, which is available below, was directed by Annapaola Martin. The director said this about the visual:
"If you listen to it, 'Gunwale' is a sound wave that drags you away. If you look at it, 'Gunwale' is a journey on the surface of the water, on the border between our reality and the world of abyss, where all of our dreams and fears live."
Guitarist Niko Wenner said this about recording the track:
"I would record my improvised singing to each of my newborn kids going to sleep or when they would wake predawn needing a diaper or a bottle. Listening later, I realized I was at concert pitch, oddly in-tune with the piano there in the dark, often straight from sleep. A real discovery after a lifetime of singing. This particular melody, which became the song 'Gunwale,' sung to my intently focused baby boy one early morning in 2018, fit a D Major blues. I arranged the melody for a 15-voice, mixed choir and we recorded two layers in the studio. We had used our final bass, drums, and guitar take the only one with an extended improv at the end. ProTools crashed midway in the first vocal take so we had to restart from there; the final choir chord gave me a shiver of pleasure hearing it sun in the studio the first time. One of my favorite moments on Love's Holiday."
“Gunwale” comes from Oxbow’s new studio album Love's Holiday, which is out on Ipecac Recordings. The band will kick off their North American tour this week in Philadelphia. Tour dates can be seen below. Tickets are on sale to the general public right now here.
Oxbow tour dates
October 20 Philadelphia, PA PhilaMOCA
October 21 Portland, ME SPACE
October 22 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere
November 5 Seattle, WA Substation
November 6 Vancouver, BC Rickshaw Theatre
November 7 Portland, OR Star Theatre
November 9 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
November 10 Los Angeles, CA Regent Theatre
November 11 Mesa, AZ Pub Rock
November 12 Austin, TX Mohawk