From The Morning Heat by Craft Spells
For this episode of Room 205, the Polish-born director Monika Lenczewska, Belarusian visual artist Yelena Zhelezov, and Manchester-bred set designer Tamarra Younis have joined forces to create a shimmering dream world of golden gauze, floating spheres, and abstract colored light projections inhabited by wooden folk puppets and special musical guest Craft Spells.
Toward the end of 2009, in a bedroom in Stockton, CA, a 21-year-old Justin Vallesteros began layering simple synth and guitar lines to create the sound that would become Craft Spells. What began as an experiment soon became a vibrant world of elegant guitar chords laced over looped rhythms, heavenly synth melodies, and pulsating bass. When Vallesteros recorded his first track "Party Talk,” an outpouring of online enthusiasm led him to return to his native Seattle and flesh out a full band for the debut LP Idle Labor, released on Captured Tracks in Spring 2011. If you love Felt, The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen, and the beautiful monotone drone of Ian Curtis... Craft Spells might soon be your favorite nuevo-new romantics.
- Executive Producer:
- Incase
- Producer:
- Arlie Carstens
- Director:
- Monika Lenczewska
- Visual Director:
- Yelena Zhelezov
- Set Designer:
- Tamarra Younis
- Audio Engineer:
- Butchy Fuego
- Camera:
- Monika Lenczewska, Marcin Nadolny
- Video Editor:
- Forrest Borie
- Photos:
- Arlie Carstens
- Performing Artist:
- Craft Spells
- Label:
- Captured Tracks
- Room 205 Theme Song:
- Cora Foxx
Working in collaboration with visiting musicians and a revolving cast of filmmakers, set designers, audio engineers and friends, Room 205 exists to share our collective passion for art and music and showcase the people that inspire us.
