Adanowsky launched his disarmingly sincere tenth solo album The Idiot by way of Common Music Mexico. With it, the musician, actor, composer, producer, and director, shares the gorgeously solemn, deceptively hooky “Chain Reactionary” that includes Beck, who Adanowsky met via mutual pal Sean Lennon. Rolling Stone premiered the video directed by Michel Gondry alongside an in-depth characteristic saying, “Strokes of folks and kraut wash via the album, sucking the listener into the hypnotic sonic whirlpools he’s turn out to be so adept at creating.”
The video, directed by Adanowsky’s Oscar-winning former L.A. neighbor, is a pleasant accompaniment to the album. “I emailed Michel Gondry asking if he wished to direct a video for me and two days later he answered that he was already taking pictures!” says Adanowsky. “Michel was my neighbor after I lived in LA and when Sean launched me to Beck, I texted him my music with out ever assembly him personally. After that, a dream got here true and a music and video have been born. It simply needed to be the fitting music and time.”
“Chain Reactionary” follows the dreamlike album opener “When the Angel Comes,” launched earlier this 12 months to announce the LP. Adonowsky’s finely-grained vocal caresses Karen O’s angelic timbre and daydream lyrics and its Twilight Zone-inspired black-and-white shadow play video. The visible options Adanowsky’s actor/director brother Brontis and producer/singer nephew Dante, who solely improve the music’s ethereal aura. Adanowsky is the son of legendary Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky.
The Idiot is a singular, distinctive mélange of indie rock, pop, and folks knowledgeable by its French-Mexican creator’s multi-cultural roots and international way of life. After a Parisian upbringing, Adanowsky spent years immersed in tango dancing in Argentina, then a spell in Madrid absorbing flamenco music. His time in L.A. included collaborating with Devendra Banhart, earlier than settling in Mexico Metropolis, the place he self-produced The Idiot alongside French singer Victor Mechanick, utilizing classic analog tools and Sixties guitars.
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