Bibio - K is for Kelson

What this video is

Released in May 2011 as a single from Warp Records, 'K is for Kelson' sits at a significant intersection in UK independent music: the post-folktronica moment when artists like Bibio (Stephen James Wilkinson) were assimilating acoustic folk instrumentation—archtop jazz guitar, berimbau, Rhodes electric piano, wine and whisky bottles as percussion—into a forward-thinking electronic production framework. Warp Records,…

Why it matters

As an Indietronica artefact, this video documents the genre at a moment of particular creative fertility—where lo-fi folk and leftfield electronic music were cross-pollinating on a respected experimental label. Bibio's idiosyncratic multi-instrumentalism, documented in Discogs credits listing…

The director

Russell Weekes is a London-based illustrator and music video director whose practice spans publishing, art-direction, design, video, photography, illustration, animation, and education. He has worked as art director for The Guardian and directed music videos…