All Them Witches haben ihr neues Video zu "The Children of Coyote Woman" veröffentlicht. Das neue Album "Nothing as the Ideal" erscheint am 04.09.20. Schlagzeuger Robby Staebler hat das Video aufgenommen und geschnitten. Neben der Band hat auch der Profi Skateboarder Evan Smith in dem Video mitgewirkt.
"The Children of Coyote Woman" ist eine Ballade, die die mythologische Geschichte von Remus und Romulus erzählt, die in der römischen Mythologie als Gründer der Stadt Rom gelten.
Ben McLeod erzählt wie es zu dem Song gekommen ist:
“While we were writing and rehearsing for the new album, [drummer Robby Staebler] and [bassist Michael Parks Jr.] recorded a cassette demo of what became ‘TCOCW,’. They played it for me the next day and we were all pretty blown away by Parks’ crafting of the song. It was the first time I had no idea what to play on an ATW song. I didn’t want to mess it up. Robby and Parks actually tracked it by themselves at Abbey Road, then I recorded my resonator slide parts a few days later, and they were the only things that served purpose to the feel of the beautiful song.”
Staebler erzählt wie es zu dem Video mit seinem guten Freund Evan Smith gekommen ist:
„Since we got back from Abbey Road in early March to immediate quarantine, we’ve all moved to opposite parts of the country. The idea of making a video was a little challenging considering the thousands of miles that separate us and the possibility that one of us would get or give someone else the fucking coronavirus along the way. I was in the middle of a side project with my friend Evan Smith, who is one of the most prolific pro skaters of our time. We had been working on music and talking about filming for his upcoming DC shoe part. I mentioned us driving back to Tennessee from LA and filming along the way for this song and his part.
We look like brothers, and the story of Remus and Romulus kinda just worked itself out visually. He picked me up and we bolted across the country. We ended up shooting scenes in New Mexico, Arkansas, and finally in Tennessee. Our trip started out the day the world began protesting for George Floyd. About 5 hours out of Los Angeles, the news started pouring in. The protests and the anger were erupting across the world. We watched as everything else began to feel completely unimportant. Stuck in the middle of a massive drive, I almost pulled the plug on everything to get home to my girl, her kids, and the other brujas in the house. We decided to keep going.
We finally made it to my church in a crazy headspace, keeping an eye on everything worldly. I packed up my van to go home, waited until Parks made it to the church from Arkansas, loaded the cameras with five hundred feet of film, and hurried out into the countryside. I knew a perfect place to shoot—an old destroyed home structure in the foothills of the Smokies pretty close to my studio. With no plan and little time, we managed to shoot the bulk of the video in a matter of ninety minutes. We passed the cameras back and forth while Parks and I shouted out shot ideas. We’ve never shot something so fast in my life.
We crushed some beers, laughed a lot, and soaked up this shiny moment we knew was ending. You can see us laughing at the absurdity of what we were doing. We had to lift our spirits with the sliver of time we floated in. We all knew how fucking unimportant it felt and how quickly the moment was going to coming to a close. We all collided with the Arriflex numerous times, avoiding stitches and fleshy head gashes—barely. It was a shit show. It was hilarious. We finished shooting and I raced back to LA to get the film processed and return to my vortex. Everyone went their separate ways. Reentering the heaviness of the world after shooting our silly project that just so happens to represent a founding of an empire while ours is so obviously crumbling.”
Frontmann Charles Michael Parks Jr. sagt folgendes zum neuen Song:
"The Children of Coyote Woman' is a retelling of the founding of Rome through a southern perspective," ATW frontman Charles Michael Parks Jr. tells us. "Two brothers fight to see who will control the region after the passing of their mother, a woman so fierce and legendary that people would rather leave their homes than get in her way. Though powerful, though fierce, their lives exist in a minuscule blip in the universe and are still tied to the struggles and hardships of trying to survive in the poor rural south."
"In my mind, there are a lot of similarities between the Roman empire and the USA. The same essence of power and ingenuity, as well as it's brutal conquests for resources. The founding fathers undoubtedly studied the reign of the Caesars and chose it as a model for their new republic."