The video treatment for Woven Talon’s single “Guri” by Katharina Jung, Chris Dahl-Bredine and composer Andrew Tumason weds the shamanic music with the image of a mystic communing with nature at dawn. She becomes one with the elements and the landscape, visualizing an abstract representation of a primal nature spirit depicted in shadow-darkened mosaic as hand drums keep a beat that can be kept by anyone, and chanting carries through the piece like a guiding set of principles one keeps in mind without having to focus on it with the linear aspect of the conscious mind. The song is from the album Hajiko (which released on June 21, 2022) and represents “Part III of the Kahu Takaya Story—A journey with Ruca, Grandfather Owl, deep into the Indigo Dunes.” Recorded in Byron Bay, Australia in a studio in the jungle near the ocean this song both captures a certain pan-indigenous sensibility and a cinematic aesthetic that isn’t sound design and soundtracking so much as suggestive of an experience of a world we don’t visit often but beside which we exist daily and in reorienting the mind to an awareness of this parallel world around us all the time the song is also a reminder of our connectedness to the natural world and our existence inseparable and indistinguishable from the contiguous aspect of the material and perhaps the spiritual world. Watch the video for “Guri” on YouTube and follow Woven Talon at the links provided.
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