WISE 2.1 - In A Gregorian Garden

Workers In Song Edinburgh (Preview Version)
A film By Julien Pearly
A song by The Dark Jokes
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WISE 2.1 - In A Gregorian Garden vimeo.com/​14578828
WISE 2.2 - Yellow Menace vimeo.com/​14578828
WISE 2.3 - Jean Charles de Menezes vimeo.com/​14638080
WISE 2.4 - Low Winter Sun vimeo.com/​14609711


Edinburgh, August 2010 - January 2011

So here we go for an amazing new set of songs from one of the most exciting band in Edinburgh.

For this new WISE episode we introduce Aaron Dennington Band, The Dark Jokes, starting where we left him last time, in an abandoned hospital near Coldingham where I witnessed something unique and beautiful. Without doubt he knew what song would fit this kind of environment and "In a Gregorian Garden" was the perfect choice indeed. When he sings "she (mother nature) gonna make you pay and she will blow everything away", I'm drown into the desolation of the place and contemplate how right he is. By that time of the week end, I had already filmed a lot and saw the only card I had was almost full and my battery close to die, so I got only half of the song at the end. The situation gave me the idea of breaking the one take rule, like I did for WISE 1.4. It brings a new layer to the song also gives the freedom to travel through time and space. Here thanks to a tv set and through a hole in the ground, our friend Aaron is flew back and fro from one place to another without trouble, just by the magic of imagination and editing.
The song with the whole band was shot the day of the Leith Links Festival, one of the many good things about Edinburgh, with the Meadows Festival just held the same month every year. It's a friendly free week-end event with lots of stands and great music to enjoy, of course if the weather is on your side. That day I went for the very 1st time by bicycle down the Water of Leith path and I have to say it's a beautiful wee journey to do if take your time to enjoy the landscape. It took me almost 1hr, stopping by to take pictures with my camera and I wish I had done it long before. When I arrived he and his brother (Paul playing drums) were struggling to start their gig due to a battery problem for their amplification. After many attempts to make it work, they managed to borrow another battery from one of the stand nearby. Hear now how the raw feelings of death and desolation we experienced in the abandoned hospital and Aaron particular skillful finger picking become a funkier wave of sounds full of life when the whole band and all the people present in the park join in.

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• Julien Pearly
• The Dark Jokes
• Workers In Song Edinburgh
• Pundigrion Films
• Accidental Media
• Music Scene
• 7D
• Folk
• Scotland
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• Leith Links
• Edinburgh

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