PJ Harvey has released the video for PJ Harvey releases the video for “The Wheel,” the first track to be taken from her forthcoming album The Hope Six Demolition Project, to be released on April 15th through Vagrant Records.
The visuals were directed by award-winning photo-journalist and film-maker Seamus Murphy. Murphy said in a press release about the video:
Making the film for “The Wheel” involved a mix of footage from the first trip in 2011, rehearsals I shot of Polly in London and the most recent trip to Kosovo. The enormous refugee crisis in Europe had been news for months. I spent some time on the Greek and Macedonian borders, and in Serbia, before travelling into Kosovo. It was happening in and through territories associated with recent conflicts in Kosovo and the wider Balkans. The idea of cycles, wheels and repetition once again being all too apparent and necessary to make.
We salute the life of Nesim Kryeziu (1938 – 2016) the wonderful man in the film performing a traditional dance with a glass of water on his head at a wedding in his village of Brezne in the Opoja region of Kosovo.
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