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Track of the Day: Nicolas Godin – Orca

• 2nd Jun 2015

Leaving aside the outrageously beautiful Wes Anderson-homaging video, this new track from one half of celebrated musical duo AIR, Nicolas Godin, is an absolute bloody ripper.

His first solo album Contrepoint has reached back in time to move further forward, a dazzling recording that romps its way through modern pop, film soundtracks and retrospective pop with the classical forms of Johann Sebastian Bach and chamber music weaved in between the tracks.

This is bonkers and utterly, utterly brilliant stuff – the closest thing to genius we’ve heard

The first taste of the LP comes in the form of ‘Orca’, the albun’s epic opening track, which features a part-animated video directed by Sean Pecknold.

Of the video Pecknold states: “When I first heard this song, I was like: Whoa…. this rules. Then I listened to it for a few days on repeat with my eyes closed. It felt like some sort of instrument battle, and I kept thinking of the ways they visualize music in Japanese play-along video games. I also kept thinking of the opening for a science show from the early 90’s called 3, 2, 1 Contact. Because the song moves so fast, I thought it’d be cool to do a quick-cut montage as this was the opening song on the record. That lead to the idea to create a graphic visual loop for every sound we hear in the song.”

Godin will be performing a special one-off live show this Thursday 4th June at the Villa Medici in Rome.