Spanish experimental artist Adrián de Alfonso shares new Postrer ciclón video

Well, here’s a reason to be cheerful, and a way to make amends for this regrettable state of affairs; an exclusive peek at his new video, directed by Alex Reynolds. An accomplished, cinematic little wonder that seems to have been filmed on some idyllic, forest-encircled Spanish farm, the video captures improvised, abstract dance routines, spirited cattle chasing, indifferent cats loafing about, and the rustic mechanics of what looks like some lumber workshop. I’d also wager that you’re unlikely to see anything else like this today.

Some of the information about de Alfonso’s approach to sound accounts for the striking nature of the music. Drawing on ‘flamenco, copla, bolero, tango and sardana‘, ‘Viator‘ was made with ‘unamplified midi guitar, FM transmission, unhinged sampling / midi techniques‘ and many other unconventional tools of assembly. Recorded with ‘piezos and cheap mics, sometimes with the window open, in de Alfonso’s bedroom in Berlin, in a bathroom without vents in the Alpujarra of Granada and in some desert locations around Almería‘, it’s music made freely, across artistic and geographic borders, both uninhibited and profoundly minimalist.

Elusive yet evoking comparisons with Lucrecia Dalt (who produced ‘Matanzas‘, de Alfonso’s latest record as Don The Tiger) as well as Ghédalia Tazartès, Henri Texier, Helado Negro and Caetano Veloso, de Alfonso’s music finds an ideal accompaniment in Reynold’s visuals, which themselves could be the meeting point between Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth and Carla Simón’s Alcarràs, if abbreviated, without the psychodrama and strife, instead made for slow days of strange rituals in sleepy hinterlands.

Watch this bizarre yet beguiling visual below.

‘Viator‘ is released by Maple Death Records, available to listen + order HERE.

For more on Adrián de Alfonso head HERE.

Photo by Leónidas de la Quadra.