The Nordic Pairing’s Dark Disco Fuels a Luminous Imagination
Neon waves of post-punk disco ebb and flow over homages
to 1980s screen classics in the video for “TNR” by Kasper Bjørke
featuring Jaakko Eino Kalevi. “I have always been a sucker for producers
like Vangelis and Giorgio Moroder, who both made brilliant soundtracks
to some of my favorite movies around that time,” says Danish artist
Bjørke. “I was lucky to work with my dear friend Kurt Uenala, who
co-wrote the latest Depeche Mode album and that had an influence on the
overall sound.” Finnish pop experimentalist Kalevi’s androgynous vocal haunts the shadowy club track, taken from Bjørke’s forthcoming album, After Forever.
“I think that Jaakko is one of the most interesting acts to come out of
the Nordic countries in a long time,” says Bjørke, who enlisted
Amsterdam’s Alpaca Animations to conjure visuals pooled from Miami Vice
and Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” video among other references.
“It turned out though that both Kasper and us were big fans of David
Hockney and Tron,” explain Alpaca’s founders, David Lamain and
Martine Rademakers of the roots of the video’s inspiration. “We took big
felt pens and started drawing; the camera captured the ink leaking
through the paper, and we combined it with stop-motion and puppet
elements.”
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