Philip Reinking – Queen City Sounds and Art

CalistaKazuko1_crop — Calista Kazuko, photo courtesy the artist

Calista Kazuko takes on the forces of darkness in the video treatment of her song “Lady Cherry.” The video, made by Philip Reinking and Thomas Linton casts Kazuko as a kind of benevolent trickster combination of Carmen Mirandam, Kate Bush and Carla Bozulich. Yeah, sure, the Satan in the video looks typically spooky and menacing in classic fashion but visually abstracted in an interesting way reminiscent of the way the horned one is depicted at the end of The Witch. The song is a brooding but uplifting song about the power women can have if they embrace the native combination of intelligence, intuition and moxy everyone can summon forth, especially when called to the occasion such as playing cards with The Devil and one’s eternal soul is on the line. In the end of course Lady Cherry is triumphant and she roasts Satan with her fiery breath, unrevealed until the fateful moment late in the game. The track is the third single from Calista Kazuko’s album Empress. Watch the video on YouTube and follow Calista Kazuko at the links below.