"Bells Burnt" by HUME in India

As the sun rose and the chai was guzzled down tired throats we made our way towards an ancient mahrajahee palace that over looked the ganges and had been untouched in 700 years. All the musicians jumped on motorcycles and rickshaws in pearl white gowns to arrive to the shoot with a good amount of excited energy. 15 of us musicians, friends, and curious onlookers climbed over a chipped brick roof top and slowly made our way to the center of the palace. 5 minutes before we were going to roll tape we got shut down. we had caused such a scene that the security (drunk old men) showed up and demanded 10,000 rupees ($200) as a bribe for allowing to shoot. Broke and tired we jet set towards the river, rented a boat and began the morning. The actual performance caught in this video captures a lot of the spontaneous prose I was trying capture within the music. The madness during the morning may be reflected in some of the stills. Dead bodies floating by, engines cutting out,the wind having it's ways and 115 degree sun on the rise. You can see me laugh as one of my friends who got left on the banks comes up towards the boat we were all on nicely bearing gifts of coffee and fruit. Another oddity is you can also see a film crew from spain whom I later befriended and worked with floating off in the backround shooting their flick about an alien. The feeling of immediacy tends to hold you hostage in a city like varanasi, even when trying to document I was still caught in the flow of the cities will. The song we used here is titled "bells burnt" and is an attempt to capture some of the micro vs macro parts of life that I often forget about.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• HUME
• Britton Powell
• Sockets Records
• socketscdr
• Benares India

[buddyhead]

Does he sing what I think he's singing? do you have the lyrics online anywhere?

Either way... rad video. Come play LA! Email me when you do

[nataliechami]

brit, this is awesome! so jealous... i'm going to show this to my students.

ps- i posted this before, but from my bands thing... haha hope you're well!

-nat

[orlemonde]

brit will you change your name to "hume in india"