The first video from Califone‘s new album Stitches was a unique experience for every viewer through the use of its innovative Tumblr backend and now we share another distinct vision from the new album.
Premiering today on Spin, Califone share a cinematic visual for the song “Frosted Tips” directed by Jared Varava. Through a voyeur’s view we see violence, birth, death, and joy all through the windows of an apartment and into the lives of it’s inhabitants. Watch the video ABOVE or here on YouTube.
Click read more to see the director’s thoughts on the video, European dates starting this week until the end of the year and newly announced North American shows starting in Los Angeles in January next year.
Varava says,
I first heard Califone ages ago, back when I was in college and my brain was still spongy enough to process copious amounts of music. Over a decade after that, I cold called this guy Tim Rutili to ask if he’d be interested in scoring a short film I made. He agreed, proceeded to compose one of the most beautiful ditties I’ve ever heard, and I’ve been vastly in his debt ever since. This video is my modest way of contributing to that giant karma machine and impressing the pants off the starry-eyed, college-aged me.
Stitches as an album tackles some big ideas, and it seemed necessary to emulate that bigness cinematically. Travis Button, Josh Inch, and Alexandre Naufel all brought their otherworldly talents to realize this sense of scale. Also, that girl dancing with the dog is really pretty, don’t you think?
TOUR DATES
11/09/13 Prague, CZ – Pilot Club BUY TICKETS
11/10/13 Berlin, DE – Urban Spree Galerie BUY TICKETS
11/12/13 Gothenburg, SE – Pustervik BUY TICKETS
11/13/13 Stockholm, SE – Debaser BUY TICKETS
11/14/13 Stavanger, NO – Folken BUY TICKETS
11/16/13 Ottersum, NL – Roepaen BUY TICKETS
11/17/13 Brighton, UK – The Hope BUY TICKETS
11/18/13 Newcastle, UK – The Cluny BUY TICKETS
11/19/13 Manchester, UK – Roadhouse BUY TICKETS
11/20/13 Leeds, UK – Belgrave Music Hall BUY TICKETS
11/21/13 Dublin, Ireland – Whelan’s BUY TICKETS
11/22/13 Coventry, UK – Taylor Johns BUY TICKETS
11/23/13 Oxford, UK – Audioscope Festival BUY TICKETS
11/25/13 London , UK – Lexington BUY TICKETS
11/26/13 Bristol, UK – St. Bonaventure’s BUY TICKETS
11/27/13 Aachen, DE – Musicbunker BUY TICKETS
11/28/13 Brussels, BE – Autumn Falls @ Botanique BUY TICKETS
11/29/13 Utrecht , NL – Le Guess Who? BUY TICKETS
11/30/13 Koln, DE – King Georg BUY TICKETS
12/01/13 Schorndorf, DE – Club Manufaktur BUY TICKETS
12/02/13 St Gallen, CH – Palace BUY TICKETS
12/03/13 Zurich, CH – Exil Club BUY TICKETS
12/04/13 Firenze, IT – Tender Club BUY TICKETS
12/05/13 Bologna, IT – Locomotiv BUY TICKETS
12/06/13 Roma, IT – Init BUY TICKETS
12/07/13 Osimo/Ancona, IT – Loop Live Club BUY TICKETS
12/08/13 Bolzano, IT – Sudwerk Club
12/09/13 Torino, IT – Blah Blah
01/06/14 Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg Bar*
01/07/14 San Francisco, CA – The Chapel*
01/09/14 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios*
01/10/14 Seattle, WA – The Crocodile*
01/11/14 Vancouver, BC – Electric Owl*
01/22/14 Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center^
01/23/14 Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon^
01/24/14 Omaha, NE – Slowdown^
01/25/14 Columbia, MO – Mojo’s^
01/26/14 St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway^
01/28/14 Louisville, KY – Zanzabar^
01/29/14 Columbus, OH – The Basement^
01/30/14 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern^
01/31/14 Pontiac, MI – The Pike Room at The Crofoot^
02/01/14 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall^
* = w/ The Luyas
^ = w/ William Tyler