Clark - Broken Kite Footage

Name: Clark - Broken Kite Footage
Uploaded: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Released as the closing track of Clark's sixth album Iradelphic (Warp Records, April 2012), 'Broken Kite Footage' sits at the intersection of post-IDM experimentation and early-2010s ambient revival. Iradelphic represented a major shift in Chris Clark's practice — incorporating live instrumentation, field recordings across multiple…

2012 · Post-IDM Pastoral Electronic Era (2012) · music video

2012Post-IDM Pastoral Electronic Era (2012)Post-IDM / Warp Records experimental electronic ambient, 2010s UK

What this video is

Released as the closing track of Clark's sixth album Iradelphic (Warp Records, April 2012), 'Broken Kite Footage' sits at the intersection of post-IDM experimentation and early-2010s ambient revival. Iradelphic represented a major shift in Chris Clark's practice — incorporating live instrumentation, field recordings across multiple continents, acoustic guitar, and piano — a deliberate move away from the abrasive…

Why it matters

Represents the ambient-drone wing of early-2010s post-IDM British electronic music. 'Broken Kite Footage' functions as a genre-boundary artifact: a drone-ambient coda on a record reviewed as blurring IDM, folktronica, and experimental electronics. Its video's extreme formal restraint — one uncut…

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