New Spectre Folk video by Pax Paloscia

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Q&A With Pax Paloscia, Director of New Spectre Folk Video


story Hanly Banks
Underwater photography is so ubiquitous at this point, we didn’t think it was possible to film submerged and still be unique. But “Burning Bridge,” the new video from New York supergroup Spectre Folk, is shot beneath the water and completely changed our minds. Where does anything this beautiful come from? Italy, of course. Italian-born, New York-based photographer Pax Paloscia is the woman responsible for this lovely footage. (She’s also married to fellow talent Gabriele Stabile, photographer of so many wonderful images in the FADER, including our current Glasser cover.) Paloscia answered a few questions about making the video, her transition from still to moving images, and the identity of that skinny kid in the water. Also, how do we go to there?


How’d you get hooked up with these guys?
[Spectre Folk member/New York Times food writer]Peter (Meehan) is a good friend of ours. He sent us the song and I loved it. I’m very lucky, because in my family I have many nephews whom I’ve been following all my life—so I’ve been recording a lot of material. On the day we shot the video, I was with my youngest nephew, Tommy, and we were in the swimming pool (I am a little bit obsessed with water). The song was very inspiring for the kind of slowed-down mood, and he actually just jumped in the water and started swimming around. It was like this moment—it looked like he was really listening to the song. Then we played around a little bit with the landscape and I mixed the two moments together, and it came out with a natural mood, like the kid was lost in his own world.

Did you shoot with the intention of making a music video?
I had it in mind when we were listening to the piece. The video was almost done by the time we shot it, in my mind. I knew that I would be in Italy, I knew the landscape, I knew the people, and I knew that it would be perfect for this kind of song. As soon as we were back in New York I couldn’t wait to mix them together.

You’re a photographer by trade. How was the crossover to video?
I’ve been shooting all my life, but I have to say that I use my photography for both painting and video-making. Every time I work in my studio I’m doing a collage of things, a mix of media.

How did your nephews feel about the whole thing?
They love to play and it’s great because they totally forget about the camera. So they kind of just play with me and we used to run like crazy in this giant forest and they just make it fun, so it’s totally natural to work with them.

Nerd question—what kind of camera did you use?
A canon 5D with an underwater thing [laughs]. I was very, very afraid to put the camera inside of it. We tried to close it with tape and glue, and everybody was telling me “You’re crazy for going under the water with the camera!”

Well, it’s a beautiful video.
It’s exciting when someone tells you that about something so personal—like my life and the people i love and the things I really love—and when people get it, it’s magic.

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Spectre Folk Tour June 2010

on tour this June:
June 10 Frankie's 457 Book Release Brooklyn 8 pm
June 12 Woodsist Fest Henry Miller Library Big Sur CA 2 pm
June 14 Hemlock Tavern San Francisco 6:30 pm
June 15 Synchronicity Space Hollywood CA with Thurston Moore 8 pm

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Hey everybody.. a couple of news items..

A live show by Spectre Folk has been put up on the Free Music Archive site. It was a show performed by me (Pete Nolan), Peter Meehan, Andy McCloed, and Noah Murphy at the Issue Project Room. They credited the concert to just Pete Nolan even tho it was a whole band. I was gonna wait till I made something like this before I actually took personal credit for something but anyway.. you can check it out here .
It's pretty good.. but I would advise avoiding the last tune... yeesh!

And the Spectre Folk record Compass,blanket, lantern, mojo got a nice write up at Raven Sings the Blues.. check it out here

Also some choice words from the Bulls Tongue on said same record here

Noah Sanders just sent me this link to a killer write up on the Compass.. record

Also don't forget!.. If you want to download some Arbitrary Signs music right this very instant.. you can! here


at OtherMusic.com

Current title available:

Spectre Folk.. So many ships out at sea in the Night
Spectre Folk.. Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo
Spectre Flux.. Oratum
and last but not least
Magik Markers.. Shame Mask

Magik Markers may be coming to your town this month!!!!

03.19.10 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool (with Spectre Folk)
03.20.10 - Philadelphia, PA - Danger Danger Gallery
03.21.10 - Washington, DC - Black Cat
03.22.10 - Pittsburgh, PA - Garfield Artworks
03.23.10 - Columbus, OH - The Summit
03.24.10 - Cleveland, OH - Now That's Class
03.25.10 - Buffalo, NY - Sound Lab
03.26.10 - Toronto, ON - The Garrison
03.27.10 - Montreal, QC - Casa Del Popolo

The BOSS lp repress is still available as well as the Spectre Folk Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo .. both are 12 bucks . email petenolan@hotmail.com if you're innersted.

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Arbitrary Signs at Othermusic.com !

Arbitrary Signs releases will now be available for download at Othermusic.com .. So far we've got the new Spectre Folk "Compass" lp up there. Stayed tuned for releases from Magik Markers and other gems from the extensive back catalog!

New Spectre Folk lp "Compass, blanket, lantern, mojo" OUT NOW on ARBITRARY SIGNS!

One Sheet
Spectre Folk
Compass, blanket, lantern, mojo
Arbitrary Signs LP - 003
listen: www.myspace.com/spectreflux

As anxiety encroaches with the cold air of winter thank the stars for the whiskey/weed warmth of Compass, blanket, lantern, mojo --- it flows through you like a liquid howl of light.

Th u r st on Mo or e


For an out-of-it fogie like myself, it’s tough to keep up with the many musical hats our boy Peter Nolan sports. There’s of course The Magik Markers and then there’s Lil Dusty, Spectre Flux, Spectre Folk, Folk Spectre, Cops, etc. I gotta admit I sorta lost the thread on Petes’ musical output for awhile there due to the simple fact I couldn’t keep up with it all. My chrome dome would literally throb with all the names and phony catalogue numbers that must accompany all these sound whims that must fly off his ginger head like bats from a belfry.

Luckily, I put down the Brupenex long enough to catch up with “Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo’, Nolans’ latest expulsion under his Spectre Folk moniker. As expected, the album reeks of the musty homespun psychedelic scent that would make both Al Simones and Uncle Neil Young red as a beet. The tunes are hazy with hope and bobbing audio to spare. Seagulls or rusty bedsprings sound off in the crackly distance on one track and I get a salty taste in my mouth like I licked the third pier boardwalk in Wildwood circa ’79. And check out the track ‘Burning Bridge’ where Petes’ voice soars and wavers like a wounded dove flying to the safety of a clean cage and the awaiting name of ’Walter’. The whole thing is a gorgeous, fully conscious stumble into a self made sunset and it just reminds me of something someone never said to me ‘It’s not over until you declare everyone a loser and paint yourself in a corner’.

Tony Rettman
Guidoville, New York
November 2009




I dig the home-made sounds of Spectre Folk's new 'Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo' long-player. Burning Bridge, for one, is sure to be the new late night/early morning/coming down/post-trip/mellow'd out/sitting around a campfire or by a lake or in a Williamsburg bedsit song. Pure and darkling anthems for the onset of those long winter nights a-comin'...

Lee Ranaldo
NYC Oct 09



Recorded Summer 2009 by Spectre Folk at the Homemade Casino in Greenpoint.

All tunes by Pete Nolan

Pete sings and plays Art and Lutherie acoustic, 2008 American Les Paul, drums, Juno 12, tapes etc.

Violet shakes and Julie Tomlinson Nolan sings backup on Burning Bridge. Violet howls at the end of Ages.

Violet Ray Nolan was there lending howls and vibes at every step.

Track titles:

1. Falling off the map
2. Toot toot!
3. Sat around for peace (this time)
4. Ages have passed
5. Dusty's rag
6. 8 foot wings
7. Burning Bridge
8. Groovy garbage, man

watch a video for Sat Around here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbknttBdnjA

Read an article and listen to a tune here:
http://rcrdlbl.com/2009/10/14/exclusive_new
_download_spectre_folk_falling_off_the_map

buy it for $12: petenolan@hotmail.com