Case in point -- the video for Alpha Zulu by the French pop band, Pheonix. Featuring a gallery's worth of famous artworks come to life making faces and bobbing their heads to the music, Alpha Zulu's "piece de resistance" has to be Henri Lehmann's Portrait of Franz Liszt singing the song's first stanza.
I am generally not a big fan of the music video genre, but every once in a while I come across video that makes me smile for all the right reasons. Case in point -- the video for Alpha Zulu by the French pop band, Pheonix. Featuring a gallery's worth of famous artworks come to life making faces and bobbing their heads to the music, Alpha Zulu's "piece de resistance" has to be Henri Lehmann's Portrait of Franz Liszt singing the song's first stanza. The choice to feature Liszt singing the opening lines of Alpha Zulu is no accident but a continuation of Phoenix's appreciation of the master, who was born in the town of Raiding, a mere 40 kilometers from the village I now call home. The video below features the band visiting Liszt's home -- now a museum -- in Bayreuth, Germany.
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bruce g charlton
2/28/2023 21:58:09
That's very good, watched it twice!
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Francis Berger
3/1/2023 08:42:26
@ Bruce - It has a playful, joyful quality to it that I find charming. The band recorded their latest album in a makeshift studio they set up in the Louvre, of all places. I guess this video is a bit of a hat tip to that experience.
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