Brazilian

The digital files sneaked out a while ago now, but the all-important hard vinyl currency of Luke Abbott‘s awesome Brazil single package is set to hit your shops this Monday 19th December (just in time for Christmas!), complete with new even more danceable Slow Version, typically top drawer remixes from Gold Panda and Etienne Jaumet, and bombastic bonus Luke Abbott original Grumble.

But as if that wasn’t goodness enough to kick off the festive season, to top it all off we have just unleashed this accompanying multimedia video gem, a suitably lyrical collaboration between Luke himself, his artist-photographer girlfriend Katherine Mager and their poet friend Sam Riviere. Filmed in Norfolk, Norwich, Brighton and London, the video superimposes Sam’s words as subtitles to subtly-moving snapshots of the British seaside in its “attempt to investigate the invisible connections between people and objects”, to curiously uplifting effect:

Brazil is Katherine Mager’s first ever music video outing, but you may already be familiar with her previous Border Community / Luke Abbott related work for the floral cover of Luke’s Whitebox Stereo EP:

She also provided Luke’s current set of special press photos, of which this shot has proved to be particularly iconic:

Particularly observant Norfolkers may even have stumbled across her previous solo exhibitions at Art in the Underbelly and the Norwich Art Centre, the latter of which went so far as to name her ‘Norfolk Photographer of the Year’ in 2008. For more information on Katherine Mager’s previous and future projects, head on over to her occasionally updated blog.

Sam Riviere meanwhile is a name that may be new to anyone who isn’t a regular on the burgeoning young British poet scene, but now is as good a time as any for your induction into his world. Based between London and Norwich, Sam has previously had his poems published in The Guardian and The Spectator, as well as starring in his own New Poets pamphlet for Faber + Faber in 2010. Sam also co-edits the poetry and illustraion anthology Stop Sharpening Your Knives, and is currently occupied on a series of poems entitled 81 Austerities, to be gradually unveiled via his own thoroughly modern Tumblr blog.