• News

• All

Jan 20, 2014 Bibio By Mike Hilleary

Next week on Jan. 28 Bibio, a.k.a. musical artist Stephen Wilkinson will follow-up last year’s Silver Wilkinson with a brand new EP titled The Green EP. Ahead of its scheduled arrival Wilkinson has shared a psychedelic music video that he shot alongside director Michael Robinson for the included track “Dye the Water Green.” “Michael and I started a dialogue about working on this video back in 2012, way before I even shared the track with him,” says Wilkinson in a press release. “It was all about sharing keywords back then - vague, murky, impressionistic, lonely, tunnels, longing&hellip The song has always been very visual for me, always revisiting the same imaginary places when I hear it. This is one of the reasons that it’s my favourite track off the album; I like to wander in my mind and music is a trigger for that. For this video we relied more on 30+ year old tube video cameras as opposed to film, choosing them for their vague pastel-like quality. I shot the majority of it in late summer and autumn 2013 in England and Wales. There’s one bird that flies out of a bush - that’s pretty much the only creature I videoed on the walk - as I wanted it to be a solitary experience, just the point of view of the walker and the surroundings. I also took a day trip to one of my favourite places on earth, Cwm Einion/Artists’ Valley in mid Wales. It was essential I went to that place; I’ve had some pretty profound moments there, and it was so nice to revisit”

“For the ending, I wanted to capture a sense of drowning or just being submerged amongst aquatic life - this is something I knew I wanted in the early stages of our dialogue,” Wilkinson adds. “I approached this by videoing daphnia (water fleas) with a macro lens as well as dangling an underwater camera in a stagnant pond full of algae, leaf debris and more water fleas. But the whole video really came to life when Michael worked his magic on layering it and texturising it and intertwining it with lots of gorgeous semi-abstract organic looking footage he shot his side of the pond, mostly in Pennsylvania. He’s so much more advanced at editing than me, and he’s capable of achieving what I want to see. This video is the closest thing I’ve ever seen to my dreams or imagination; it’s the closest I’ve got to translating vagueness into a viewable form.”

Click below to watch.

(www.facebook.com/mrBibio)