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Video: Gui Boratto: "Beautiful Life"

It sounds like such a simple premise, to be beautiful. Tell me how it's beautiful, we ask, actually, show don't tell. Brazilian DJ/producer Gui Boratto's "Beautiful Life", from this year's excellent Chromophobia, encompasses its simple, slightly accented lyrics about seeing lives, feeling love, and seeing the sun with golden revving synths and sharp snare cracks, trance as bliss. Its positive mantra probably doesn't hurt, but the song seems to embody beauty in a pure, distinct way.

Now, Kompakt has unveiled a video, directed by Cadú Datoro. The clip hits upon the highly individual nature of beauty by showing us not broad tropes for prettiness, but specific, everyday moments in the lives of one family. A boy spins his skateboard wheels, a girl picks up a book, and an older woman hangs laundry on a clothesline, while an older man works with his tools. All look truly, uniquely happy, except for a brief moment of confusion when the woman drops a lime. Soon enough, the family is gathered at the table, enjoying dinner and talking about their day. But it's all a beautiful fiction.

[from Chromophobia; out now on Kompakt]

Posted by Marc Hogan on Tue: 05-15-07: 01:00 PM CDT | Digg this article | Add to del.icio.us | Permalink
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