WATCH AND SHARE “JUSTINE” HERE
SATELLITE AND THE HARPOONIST - THE NEW SUPERGROUP FROM HARPOONIST AND THE AXE MURDERER’S SHAWN HALL, FEATURING MEMBERS OF THE DEEP DARK WOODS, THE BOOM BOOMS, AND KING MISSILE III
Today, Satellite and The Harpoonist are sharing the new video for “Justine” from filmmaker and animator Peter Ricq. “The inspiration for the video came from talking with Shawn,” says Ricq. “We talked about many things but the idea of turning this video into a journey mixed with pop art really stuck out. In the end, the idea of everyone around me maturing, starting or having a family, there's something that always stays, we are all dreamers and that's something we can always take with us no matter where we go.”
About the song, Shawn Hall says, “A couple summers back my buddy Jonas came over to my place and we just sat on my back deck and dropped some acid he had lying around and we began thinking about larger than life infatuations, obsessions. Shortly, after this huge guy started up a chain saw, and proceeded to drown out our thoughts, this small crew started cutting down the largest group of heritage cedar trees in my neighbourhood, directly behind my yard. So, I called down to City Hall and got an arborist over to try and stop this from happening with the neighbours yelling and crying. Well it didn’t work, the trees all fell and opened a hole in the sky that has never been filled and this song is the result, and it has nothing to do with trees.”
WATCH AND SHARE “JUSTINE” HERE
MORE ABOUT SATELLITE AND THE HARPOONIST
As the great poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once stated, “The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” And so, in January 2020, as the city’s longest spell of precipitation in over five decades threatened to wash Vancouver into the Pacific, four musicians from disparate sonic territories did just that. Not that they had a say in the matter, they let it rain while gathering at Afterlife Studios to conduct an experiment as radical and historic as the weather outside.
WATCH AND SHARE “LEE DORSEY” HERE
Shawn Hall of the acclaimed maverick blues duo The Harpoonist and The Axe Murderer was the progenitor, his notion being to assemble three talented friends with whom he had previously worked, yet that had never met each other. Then, during an intense three-day exploration of alchemic creative collaboration within a self-imposed pressure cooker environment, they would record a 6-song EP – all under the gaze of a film crew. So, as the rain smashed down on the City of Glass, Satellite and The Harpoonist was birthed, with every labour pain and its exhausting entry into the world captured on celluloid.
WATCH AND SHARE “SATELLITE MAN” (MUSIC VIDEO) HERE
LISTEN AND SHARE “ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK YOUR HEART” (NEIL YOUNG) HERE
Joining singer/harmonicist Hall in this extraordinary project – his “people that want to play in the sandbox” – are Geoff Hillhorst (Hammond organ/piano/synthesizers) of award-winning alt-country-folk dreamers, The Deep Dark Woods; Theo Vincent (percussion/congas/vocals) from Vancouver’s funk-soul powerhouse The Boom Booms, and on drums and Pencilina, Brooklyn’s Bradford Reed, of out-there art-rockers, King Missile III. The Pencilina, an incredible double-necked zither-like contraption, is Reed’s own one-off invention, making Satellite and The Harpoonist the world’s only band to feature it.
WATCH AND SHARE “BALLET IN A PHONE BOOTH” HERE
Photo Credit : Colin McTaggart // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES
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