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The production design for this lush and lavish video for Antony and the Johnsons' "Epilepsy Is Dancing", a highlight from their fantastic new album The Crying Light, is breathtaking. Intricately crafted masks, flowers and butterflies dripping from Antony Hegarty's lips, vibrantly painted bodies undulating on the floor-- it's a veritable orgy of color (there are also some bare breasts in the clip, so it might be NSFW.). A note from the label explains that it was very much a group effort:"Antony asked his friends the Wachowski Brothers to work with him on a video for his new single 'Epilepsy Is Dancing'. They in turn invited painters Tino Rodriguez and Virgo Paradiso to create costumes and a mystical environment and choreographer Sean Dorsey and his dancers to bring the dream sequence to life. Antony's artistic partner Johanna Constantine stars as herself in the role of 'Deer Monster'. The video was lit and shot by the up-and-coming directors of photography, Chris Blasingame and Banker White, and produced by Jim Jerome. The production team collectively named themselves AFAS. Please enjoy the fruits of their San Francisco art party."So there you have it, from the Wachowski Brothers on down, all these folks came together to make this strange and mysterious video for a terrific song.Pitchfork.tv page with embed code is here.[from The Crying Light; out now in the U.S. on Secretly Canadian and in the UK and Europe on Rough Trade]
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Is the gospel-flavored "Aeon" the best song on Antony and the Johnsons' excellent new album The Crying Light? It's definitely way the hell up there, and it sounded very good on the set of "Late Show With David Letterman" Tuesday night. (via Stereogum)[original version from The Crying Light; out now in the U.S. on Secretly Canadian and in the UK ...
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Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light
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On The Crying Light, Antony Hegarty remains fascinated with the transitions and overlaps between birth and life, life and death, this world and the next, but he expresses them in more universal, more direct, but no less rapturous terms than he did on his New York-tinted breakthrough I Am a Bird Now.read more
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Antony and the Johnsons: gear up for North American tour
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Antony And The Johnsons have announced details of a North American tour, kicking off February 2 in Glenside, PA.
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Antony and the Johnsons: Plot Tour, Reveal LP Artwork
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Hey there, good lookin'. That up there is centenarian butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, doing his thing on the cover of The Crying Light, the forthcoming third LP from Antony and the Johnsons. As Antony himself writes in a press release, "My new album The Crying Light is dedicated to the great dancer Kazuo Ohno. In performance I watched him cast a circle...
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Antony and the Johnsons: to headline Noise Pop
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Antony And The Johnsons and New Pornographers frontman AC Newman are among the first artists to join the lineup for San Francisco's 2009 Noise Pop Festival.
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