An absolutely eye-popping new video from Flavien Berger for
the track Berzingue.
With its constantly evolving images and organic fluidity, the video is reminiscent of the work created by US artist Bruce Bickford for Frank Zappa in the 1970s. But it’s taking psychedelic to a new level and rather than relying on Claymation it’s reflecting and distorting artificial intelligence style imagery into a whirlwind of sensory overload, sliding effortlessly between the mundane and the surreal, the threatening and the friendly and the reassuring and the bewildering.
We may see more videos like
this in the near future, but I’m uncertain they’ll be as good.
The clip is by Jamie
Harley, who was responsible for Berger’s Vendredi and La Fête Noire videos as
well as works by Koudlam, Judah Warsky and others.
Berzingue features on Berger’s recent Dans Cent Ans album,
his third album. Released on March 17, it’s a collection that features the
previous single Feux Follets and it makes clear the case that Berger's one of the most impressive artists working in electronic music at the moment, himself moving with a fluidity and fluency through innovative and previosuly unexplored regions.
Berger’s just started
an extensive tour that runs until mid-November, with two dates the Olympia in
Paris at the beginning of May and some festival dates over the summer including
the Francofolies in La Rochelle and Rock en Seine in Paris.
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