2017年に解散したオルタナロックバンド Cymbals Eat Guitarsのフロントマン Joseph D'Agostinoによるソロプロジェクト Empty Countryが、11/3にTough Love・Get Betterからリリースするニューアルバム『Empty Country II』より、先行シングル 'David'のMVを公開！
ディレクターは Andrew Futral。
中盤のギターソロが素晴らしい。
“This is a song for my late friend and mentor David Berman. It takes inspiration from W.S. Merwin's short poem, "Elegy."
Elegy
Who would I show it to
I used to send Dave everything I wrote. Whether he praised the work or was critical of it, his responses were always generous and insightful, and invariably drove me to write more. He treated me as a peer. We both suffered from severe clinical depression, so we'd talk about that a lot, too. Sometimes I'd get an email that was just a subject line. "Where are you in the struggle?"
For a long while after he passed, I kept sending songs, poems, and lyrics to his email. Eventually, the mailer-daemon started bouncing them back.
Hanging above my writing desk is a blown-up glossy print of a blurry phone pic from the night Dave and I met back in 2015. In it, I am smiling deliriously. My hero, dressed all in black, has just emerged from the liquid shadows lapping at the edges of the empty parking lot. He seems in no particular hurry, content to linger a while and chat with a stranger before continuing on his way through the night. Seeing that I’m loading guitar amps into the back of an Econoline van, he asks, "Is the music through?"
Not yet.”
