NPR Premieres New Agnes Obel Video, "Dorian"
Stunning Clip Features Metropolitan Ballet Company Dancers
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LOS ANGELES, CA - MONDAY, May 12, 2014 - Today NPR premieres "Dorian," the brand new music video from Danish singer/songwriter/pianist Agnes Obel, one of the most intriguing and captivating artists to land on American sol in some time. Click HERE to see the video.
The "Dorian" clip was edited by Alex Brüel Flagstad (who has directed and edited most of Obel's videos), and is comprised of visuals from pioneering filmmaker Maya Deren's 1958 black and white short "The Very Eye of Night," that features students from the Metropolitan Ballet Company. The dancers are shown in photographic negative performing a series of ballet moves, gliding and rotating untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing star field background - doubly-magical with Obel's "Dorian" as the score. Deren, a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer, was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of the 1940's and 1950's avant-garde period.
"Dorian" is from Obel's most recent album, Aventine (Play It Again Sam/[PI(AS} America), released in late 2013 to widespread critical acclaim. As the
Boston Globe wrote, "Agnes Obel blends pop melodies with classical precision and an air of elegance bordering on art songs." Obel is set to headline three very special concerts late this summer:
AUGUST
12 World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, PA
13 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C.
14 Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
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