Following the release of her propulsively striking new single ‘Control Freak’, today Estère has shared her accompanying video clip, which premiered overnight on Rolling Stone Australia (read here).
The Wellington-based producer and performing artist brings it home to the streets of central Wellington in a music video directed by Paascalino Schaller and featuring kiwi actresses Johanna Cosgrove and Esther Lees in a competitive play of power. Watch the music video here, or below.
Under the rich multi-textural layers of instrumentation, Estère looks at how control can be given and taken away. If someone has something you want, what are you willing to do in order to get it?
Watch ‘Control Freak’ (Official Music Video) here:
https://youtu.be/mUbtgDsVmoE
Listen to ‘Control Freak’:
Spotify / Apple Music / iTunes
The lightning hot track comes from Estere’s forthcoming mini-album My Design, due out digitally on October 13th via DRM NZ and available for pre-order today. My Design is part one of an interconnected body of work, due to be released in March as a two-part album called My Design, On Others’ Lives.
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About My Design / On Others’ Lives:
“I’ve always been fascinated by other people. But there was a period in my life where I went a little crazy. I was coping with a variety of stresses and there was a traumatic incident that left me feeling disconnected and literally out of my body for a couple of months. I was really terrified I was going to stay feeling like that forever. But during that period of detachment from myself it was like I became more connected to other things. I read a list of autobiographies and philosophy books, I experienced the world differently and after coming out of that state – I became terminally interested in the live’s of other’s.” – Estère Breaking conventional barriers is a pivotal element in Estère’s two-part, sophomore album My Design, On Other’s Lives. She didn’t want anyone else to record or produce it and she didn’t want to write songs about love (except to her Grandmother). Recorded at her home studio in a suburban 40’s Wellington villa, Estère’s production paints a canvas of unique juxtaposition. Citing the meaty side of electronic music with succulent bass and weighty drums then contrasting it with warm acoustic textures paired with the ethereal side of pop/jazz melodies, it’s clear why Estère stands apart in her own genre, Electric Blue Witch-Hop. With her obsessive interest in collecting and recording samples, a plethora of original sonic sprinklings can be found on every song off the album. The backdrop to Vietnam is the hiss and sway of Bamboo trees Estère recorded in Tam Coc (Vietnam), whilst the sound of her Mum’s vintage telephone punches the chorus in Rent. Part of what really makes My Design, On Other’s Lives stand alone, is Estère’s devotion to breaking the mould. The songs off the album escape popular music’s limited scope of ‘personal dilemma’, to conjure meaningful narratives about; displaced refugees, kids obsessed with technology, underwater/whale wisdom, controlling urges and calling out colonisation (to name some).
Estère Tracklist: 1. Vietnam Pre-order here Find Estère online: Listen to Estère on Spotify / Apple Music |
