The debut video from Penny, the new collaborative project between Asher Levitas and Michael Crowe, is both immediately alienating and engrossing. An unreal color palette is applied to a collage of found footage that is an embodiment of instability as the boundary between one piece of footage and another is constantly challenged. Shirking linear progression, the video holds all of its components together at once, presenting the sonic and visual experience as immediate and multi-layered.
Resident Advisor has penned a nice introduction to the project at large:
Levitas is a member of Old Apparatus, a shadowy UK collective known for their darkly-tinted electronic music for Deep Medi and more recently, their own Sullen Tone label. He also worked with vocalist Linn Carin Dirdal last year on another project called Saa, which released an EP on Left Blank. Crowe, meanwhile, is a writer famous for his Mysterious Letters project, where he and Lenka Clayton have set out to write letters to "everyone in the world."
Penny is each artist's latest endeavour, and the press release describes it as "spectral R&B, mutant techno, sombre acid house and technicolor industrial." The self-titled EP also marks the launch for the duo's new label, Overshare Records, which will release a new Saa record later this year, plus audiobooks, cassettes and other goodies.
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