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Venice Drone Need A Rest


VENICE DRONE

NEW VIDEO "REST"




Lead single from Venice drone upcoming ‘Nice One’ ep, ‘Rest’ is a frenetic tirade against the constant barrage of symbols that culture imposes upon us, a desperate and yet, liberating response to the cage that our routines put us in, a song about having too much on your plate and realising you were never really hungry in the first place. 



Originally written some months before and already selected as a lead single, ‘Rest’ took on an eerie new identity in a post-lockdown world and it was clear that this should be acknowledged. Director Stefano Ottaviano, co-founder of the art collective Lemon Studios XYX, was enlisted to create a video for the track and elected to evoke the cabin fever of lockdown by shooting only via the Zoom video conferencing service. The chaos of the video seeks to conjure up the feelings of isolation, uncertainty, frustration and exhaustion that were experienced during lockdown. 


Ten cameras and ten people across the UK and Austria: everything coordinated via Zoom. 


 

The Venice Drone project was conceived in the summer of 2019, when Laurence Burden and Lorne Ashley began collaborating on a selection of demo recordings. The pair had been friends for some years prior, having met whilst both DJing at a party and bonding over a shared love of music. 


2020 saw additional musicians recruited with Tomas Rojo, Olly Brown and Marco Rinaldi joining the outfit. Live versions of the songs were developed and a run of gigs booked for the spring.


Venice Drone played their first and only live gig on 29th February 2020, at St Moritz Club in Soho, to a modest, but riotous crowd and within a couple of weeks, COVID-19 had brought the world to its knees. Any link between these events is yet to be proven.


 

Rest’ was released on 14th June 2020 with the ‘Nice One’ ep following in September and featuring a selection of work from the first year of the project.



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