ALAPPUZHA: British musician Bonobo aka Simon Green has come up with a single Kerala before his upcoming album Migration. The hip-hop-influenced four-minute video is one of 12 tracks of Migration tuned using sounds from different parts of the world. The album is set to arrive on January 13 via Ninja Tune. Featuring British actress Gemma Arterton, Kerala appeared on Youtube on November 3, and more than 800,000 netizens from across the globe have watched it since. The music swerves the expression of a possessed woman who tries to get away from hard poised emotions, from a low level to peak.
The flow of synchronised voice overwhelms the listener with a multitude oflayered loops that build throughout its duration. To add the flavour of multi-layered tone, he blends acoustic string instrument sounds with highly dramatic scenes. It begins with a woman, the protagonist, wandering around a park in London seemingly tortured by a mixture of music that is slowly devolving to sticky reverbs in the end. In a statement issued as part of the releasing of the video, Bonobo says that was how “one person would take influence from one part of the world and move with that and affect another part of the world.”
His personal idea of identity, he says, was played on this record. “Is home where you are or where you are from when you move around?" he asks. He also describes the album as “the study of people and spaces.” “Over time, the identities of places evolve,” he says. The video is “the confluence of found sound from different parts of the world,” including elevators of Hong Kong, rain from Seattle, a tumble dryer from Atlanta and a fan boat engine of New Orleans, Mexico. Migration is his sixth full-length music album. The last was The North Borders (2013). The fulcrum of the 12-track feature is infatuated with the idea of migration. So there can't be better reason to carry Kerala indicating it, he says.
