The video accompaniment to ‘Quiet’ – the opening track from Get The Blessing’s fourth album Lope and Antilope – depicts what may well be a typical day in the life of the Bristol-based jazz-rock quartet. It is a video in which the parts of Jake McMurchie (saxophone), Pete Judge (trumpet), Jim Barr (bass) and Clive Deamer (drums) are played by four almost identical showroom dummies, each one dressed in matching white shirt, black suit and vaguely sinister orange cellophane headgear. From various vantage points in their home city, the spooky, static presence of these mannequins silently observe the fast-forwarded day unravel before them, the song’s shuffling, woozy ambience momentarily assuming the guise of a soundtrack to some early 70’s British gangster movie. Get Get The Blessing before they get you.
The video to ‘Quiet’ was edited by SJ Esau at Ill Spectre Productions
Lope and Antilope is out now on Naim Records.
Get The Blessing live dates 2014:
2 Mar Capstone Theatre, LIVERPOOL
5 Mar XOYO, LONDON
6 Mar Hare & Hounds, BIRMINGHAM
9 Mar Jazz Festival, BRISTOL
10 Mar Arts Centre, WARWICK
27 Mar Sheffield University SU, SHEFFIELD
29 Mar Clitheroe Grand, CLITHEROE
