Back in September of last year, we shared the song "Butterfly" from Delicate Steve's Wondervisions LP. And while the album has been out independently for a few months now, today it receives its official (re)release on David Byrne's Luaka Bop label.
NPR premiered the video for "Butterfly" over the weekend, which you can view below. It's a real-time performance piece featuring a wide range of performers. Director Sophie Peer says, "Acrobats, dancers, a juggler, hula-hooper, belly dancer, balloonist, magician, ventriloquist and of course, a chainsaw artist, all come together to celebrate Steve's song." It concludes with a nice staring contest between Steve...and Steve.
Delicate Steve (aka 23 year-old Steve Marion) says the video is an inside look into his native New Jersey.
Though living in northern New Jersey, where I'm from, can seem from the outside to be plain and boring, behind the banal surface lies a circus of tumult and activity. I guess perhaps the same amount of oddness that one might find upon a closer look in any hometown. Or so I've been lead to believe.
