by Patrick Pilch (@pratprilch)
Can you spell live revisionist harsh country music? Sam Wenc certainly can. The Massachusetts-based multi-instrumentalist has been going by Post Moves since 2012, and the project has got a new record coming out on Noumenal Loom at the end of the month. Today we’re premiering the Sandy Ewan-directed video for “Karen’s Ride With Grace,” a phantasmagorical (trippy) sequence capturing Wenc’s union of digital and natural realities. Combining steel pedal guitar, field recordings and electronic noise, Wenc follows the groundwork laid by concept artist Henry Flynt, known for his anti-art fusion of avant-garde and hillbilly music.
“Karen’s Ride with Grace” sounds like a spaghetti western soundtrack in reverse, each musical noodle unfurled back into a tinny mixing bowl, clanging steel tossed back into a hollowed sink basin. The song combines elegance and din, much like how its video juxtaposes a pleasant, flower-lined bike ride with a glitching metallic sky overhead. Picture Leyland Kirby side-saddling across the digital prairie on his theoretical Orange Milk debut, but maybe like, the advance money came from Big Machine Records or something and now they’re kinda pissed. The video for “Karen’s Ride with Grace” is notably complimentary, which makes sense considering Sandy Ewan’s own amorphous tinkerings with guitar, art and architecture. You can check the video out below, and be sure to keep a lookout for Post Moves’ full length out 10/30: