Pearl & The Oysters
Space age pop duo Pearl & The Oysters share video for new track Evening Sun taken from forthcoming album Flowerland due 3rd September via Feeltrip Records and Tip Top Recordings.
Photo credit: Laura Moreau
The duo comprising of Joachim Polack and Juliette Davis comment about the track:"To turn the ‘Endless Summer’ trope on its head, following our own reckoning with the fact that the once paradisiac promise of eternal Summer had actually turned into a dystopian menace—old Florida tourism ads and classic sunshine state iconography seem particularly eerie nowadays."
Continuing, "The lyric was also inspired by our rediscovery of long June days in Paris, when the sun doesn’t set until 10pm, and the correlated experience of having become strangers in our hometown."
Turning to directer Allyson Yarrow Pierce of Pear Juice Production to create the accompanying video she explains the themes behind the piece by commenting: "How to tell a simple story in a new way: The tale of two French young people one summer in the heat of a lot of change. How that can rouse the spirit into a stale state of longing and distance.
Where the vision for this project crystallised was the point at which Agnes Varda's Greek and French roots met. The mediterranean climate that houses both the South of France and the whole of Greece, where the meeting of land and sea, flower and fruit, water meets stone, and brims with countryside most similar to the climate of southern California. Varda's 1976 depiction of the south of France was our touchstone and set the visual narrative and colour palette of this film, along with the organic footage shot at Tittenhurst park for the Ono & Lennon 1972 television film.
I wanted to ride the line of what we had at our disposal; fruit, sea, a Beverly Hills Mansion in disrepair, a Greek painter with a beautiful voice (Calliope Pavlides), and an off-duty clothier (Claire Beaumont), with our story of two French lovers in the heat of Paris nights under the rose coloured sun."
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