"Sparkle." "Etrate"

The “sparkle” is the solo project of the singer Julia ice from the Sewage Sour trio. Inspired by Lykke Li and Aurora, Bat For Lashes and MØ, Austra and Sevdaliza, Julia Ledes writes songs in Russian and, in his own words, is looking for an alternative way for pop music outside the post-bank and Tick-Tok-Panku . Her debut album will be called “Virgin in trouble”, and, following the example of Beyonce, the singer is going to take a video clip for each of the nine songs of the album, one of which you can see right now: this is a “alarming fairy tale of the monsters that live inside us”, shot together with the director Katya Bolovtsova.

Julia ice about song and video

The more time you spend alone with you, the more you discover the difficulties and unenlightened spots. My method of therapy is to take and peel everything out. I don’t know how those who do not write songs cope with this.

I come up with ideas for all the videos in the “sparkle” project myself - and we will wind them together with the team of friends and like -minded people, who, fortunately, have their own wonderful production - Monstera Production . I think that for the musician it is important not to give visual content to someone (albeit professional) hands right now, because the video gives additional volume to music-it is difficult to perceive and understand what the artist wanted to say without him. Well, of course, if you are still so old-fashioned that you are trying to say something in music, and not just “gain classes”.

We shot the video "Etrate" on the quarantine. I am very skeptical of studio shooting, but at that moment it seemed to us that the isolation would last forever and nothing can be postponed or tolerate. In this video, for me there is an imprint of time and a sense of locker room.

This is an alarming fairy tale about the monsters that live inside us. A sad lullaby about what monsters we are for the closest. Often involuntarily “output” we wear masks of people, and alone with the most expensive creatures we show our most nightmarish sides. The video is about this back of the relationship. Try to repeat the poses in which the heroes stand: they are unkind, broken to back pain - this is the best visualization of what threatens an attempt to adjust themselves to a partner.