Kadaver & Elder: With distinctive lap steel guitar.
Kadaver & Elder - Eldovar – A Story Of Darkness & Light
Berlin’s perhaps most important rock band Kadavar slips under a blanket with US prog rock prodigies Elder – their album Eldovar – A Story Of Darkness & Light will be released on 3rd December 2021.
The new single El Matador originates from the first session Elder and Kadavar did together in March 2021. At the end of a long jam session an early version of the song developed, later to be expanded with an acoustic intro, intimate lyrics and a guest appearance by Kristof Hahn (Swans) with his distinctive lap steel guitar. The track El Matador feat. Kristof Hahn (Swans) (official video),
The corresponding music video shows scenes of the freshly released movie Burning Casablanca (Zanka Contact), which Kadavar played a small role in. The story with the German rockers and director Ismael El Iraki goes way back.
As El Iraki recalls: «Three days after the worst night if my life surviving the Bataclan terrorist attack, Kadavar brought me back from the dead with an amazing live set in Paris. A few years later, they did the same for the main character of my movie Burning Casablanca (Zanka Contact) by playing a crazy live set for hours and hours, all shot on 35mm film and in Cinemascope!».
«CKadavar bring to their music the same authentic and analogic feeling I crave in my favorite movies, be it Dracula or Sergio Leone. I believe in synesthesia and their music is one you listen to with your whole senses: every Kadavar track summons images and colours, feelings and sensations. Theirs is hallucinatory music, pure witchcraft. These are true artists who are unafraid to turn the inner eye inside and take a journey into the darkest depths of their souls: and what they bring back is mesmerizing music with poetic lyrics to match, fusing deeply experimental sounds and unforgettable earworm riffs. Viva Kadaver!!!!».
Eldovar – A Story Of Darkness & Ligh” will be released on December 3, 2021 via Robotor Records. The album will be released on vinyl in 8 different colors and two special silkscreen editions and on CD. The album will also be available on all digital platforms.
Facts about El Matador:
Directed by Ismaël El Iraki
With :
Khansa Tintziri Batma
Ahmed Hammoud
Ouahiba Filali
And the extras from the Moroccan Metal Community
Edited by : Camille Mouton & Ismaël El Iraki
DOP : Benjamin Rufi
Set design : Adrien Ernandez
Costumes : Alice Eyssartier
Live Special Effects : Steve Jama & Rico Khalid
1st AD: Agnello Christele
Continuity: Amiar Hind
35mm camera crew : Leonidas Arvanitis, Anass Rachid , Mouad M’rabet
Electric crew : Thomas Bojan, Mourad Zahran
Grip crew : Mounir Cherquy, Mourad Cherquy
Hair : Nash Zoubir
Make-up : Béline Delagrange
Snakeskin Guitar : Guitar Garage
VFX : Maëva Sol / Mathematics
Shot on film in Casablanca, Morocco.
Burning Casablanca / Zanka Contact is a feature film produced by Saïd Hamich for Barney Production (France) and Montfleuri Production (Morocco), coproduced Sebastian Schelenz for Velvet Films (Belgium), associate producer Ismaël El Iraki.