SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO RELEASE OFFICIAL VIDEO

SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS ANNOUNCE PLANS TO RELEASE OFFICIAL VIDEO FOR 

'I GOT KNOCKED DOWN (BUT I'LL GET UP)' 

(June 18, 2014)- School of Seven Bells is pleased to announce the official video for the track 'I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up)' originally by Joey Ramone about his battle with Lymphoma. Throughout 2013 producer/guitarist Benjamin Curtis had been courageously combating T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma. Recorded in it's entirety to his laptop from his hospital bed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York City, 'I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up)' is Benjamin's final recording before passing on December 29, 2013 at age 35. The track will be made available for purchase digitally on 6/24. 

"It was a very spontaneous decision to record this track," says Alejandra Deheza. " Benjamin had been talking about the song a lot, and then he just decided he was going to do it. We couldn't record vocals in the hospital, so he actually face-timed with me and his brother while we recorded vocals in the studio. He spearheaded the whole thing on face time, would even tell us which knobs to turn and listen to levels etc. We'd even see nurses in the background from time to time! It was really amazing. But that was Benjamin, and producing was what he did. It was therapeutic and took his mind off being really sick. This song was really important to him and I'm happy we were able to record it."

Directors and long time friends of the group, Toby Halbrooks and Alan Del Rio Ortiz, created a visually stunning piece, revolving around cross-country road trip stops in Indio and Joshua Tree, that celebrates life while displaying its cyclical and inexplicable properties. Viewers are reminded that nothing is quite as it seems while scenes give us the sensation we are traveling through a quick glimpse of our own best-life-memories. "Benjamin always held the desert very close to his heart," Alejandra comments. "It was a really important place to him. I'm glad we were able to shoot this video where we did, for him."

The video will be premiering on 6/25 on CultureCollide.com, the new editorial platform founded by Alan Miller (co-founder of FILTER Magazine), but you can watch a short clip today. To watch click here:http://youtu.be/iR48SIJznHU. Stay tuned for more details and plans from School of Seven Bells.