vonrestorffeffect:Hype Williams, the enigmatic duo consisting of Russian-born Inga Copeland and Lond
vonrestorffeffect:Hype Williams, the enigmatic duo consisting of Russian-born Inga Copeland and London’s Dean Blunt, is not your typical band. They’re not in the game to promote themselves, create a brand, or end up on MTV—in fact, they’d like to stay out of the game altogether (which may give some credence to the fact that a couple by the names of Denna Frances and Father Ronnie Krayola is often credited with “creating” the band as a sort of relay art project). Both Copeland and Blunt (who often goes by “D-Blunt”) have dabbled in writing, photography, and the fine arts, but D-Blunt quickly shrugs off questions about that background. “Inga has a degree in something theoretical—I forget what—and I used to be a boxer, ’til I lost a fight with an Arab,” he says, presumably attempting to mess with us.As for their music and visual aesthetics, those too are as obtuse as they are inviting. Check out their video for the tinny, trippy, lo-fi track “Chatline,” and you’ll find Copeland washing Blunt’s hair in super-slo-mo. For the clunky, bluesy raga “Get Choong and Look at the Sky,” they fashion hats out of tinfoil and hang around a churchyard. Catch them live and you might find a stage populated by several performers, Copeland and Blunt among them, hidden behind makeshift masks. -- source link