Cate Le Bon has shared the anarchic new film Crab Day which utilises inspiration and elements from her forthcoming album, due out on April 15. Directed by award-winning visual artist and Turner Prize nominee Phil Collins there are no spoken words although the video opens to a quote from the Welsh artist and poet Brenda Chamberlain taken from her prose work Tide-race (1962).
What a simple world. And beneath all the undercurrents.
Talking about the collaboration, Cate says:
“My desire was not to work with any artist on visuals for ‘Crab Day’, but to work with Phil. He creates a landscape that is anarchic and wide-open through careful consideration and exploration. There is no map. It is an empowering isolation that fills me up when I see his work. It’s beautiful, strange and inescapably human. To have him take ‘Crab Day’ and reimagine it as a visual piece is an absolute honour. No stone was left unturned and the friendship that we have fostered over the years was the anchor of the collaboration. He has made a coat that we can both wear.”
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Cate Le Bon UK Tour Dates:
May 21st – The Lantern, Bristol
May 22nd – Glee Club, Birmingham
May 23rd – Gorilla, Manchester
May 24th – Stereo, Glasgow
May 25th – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
May 26th – Oval Space, London
May 27th – Patterns, Brighton
August 18th-21st – Green Man Festival, Brecon Beacons