Tasseomancy - 29 Palms

What this video is

Released November 2016 alongside Tasseomancy's critically acclaimed third album Do Easy (Bella Union / Hand Drawn Dracula), '29 Palms' arrived during a moment of heightened cultural anxiety in North America. The band explicitly framed both the song and video as acts of resistance and affirmation — written for women and artists navigating loss and alienation. The video, created by nomadic Canadian visual artist Jesi…

Why it matters

Tasseomancy occupied a precise niche in 2016 experimental Canadian indie — bridging freak folk, dream-pop, and ambient pop with occultist and feminist themes. Critics invoked Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, Bat for Lashes, and Dead Can Dance as reference points. The '29 Palms' video is a primary visual…

The director

Jesi Jordan is a self-taught traditional animator, documentary filmmaker, painter, and performer originally from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Her practice is characterized by surreal and abstract storytelling using metamorphosis, chimeric imagery, and…