ESA Delves Into His Own Fragilities With New Video for ‘Don’t Leave Me Here’
- Davide Pulito
- Aug 8
- 2 min read
British industrial/EBM artist ESA has dropped a new video for Don’t Leave Me Here. The song is taken from the artist’s recent album Sounds for Your Happiness, released on July 5th via Negative Gain Productions.
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The stripped back approach behind the video combines a simulated live performance of the track by J Blacker, alongside the energetic yet morose contemporary dance routine, performed by Chloe Briggs.
The video is based on the feelings relating to the fear of loss, with J Blacker wanting to explore how to portray the emotions a child might experience at being in a strange place, being detached from those that care for you. The performance portrays the naivety, anxiety and confusion a child might experience and draws from Blacker’s new experiences as a father and being reminded how a child sees the world, along with the surfacing of his own childhood memories.
This coupled with recent awareness of his own parents fragility has seen the video result in a cathartic and arguably emotional take compared to the usual ESA visual stimulus.
Don’t Leave Me Here is the fourth music video from the Sounds for Your Happiness album and was filmed at Antwerp Mansion in Manchester, England by long standing Cinematographer Myles Fearnley.
ESA‘s recent effort Sounds for Your Happiness is a bleak and furious slab of electronic meat. A journey of EBM / Industrial / Black Metal / Dark Ambient / Power Noise / Punk / Techno and Goa, the album is as ambitious as it is exhilarating and genres merge seamlessly into an energetic free-fall of sonic chaos.
Get plugged in and let the happiness wash over you.
All music by Jamie Blacker. Additional mixing and mastering by Stephan Sutor (Obscure Music).
FFO: Gesaffelstein, Godflesh, Ulver, Pitchshifter, Horskh
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”Jamie Blacker has a gift to formulate and place seemingly incompatible sounds within his aggressive arrangements… and vice versa, associating brutality and chaos to sounds that have no connection or association with either. Such a dichotomy is an art form. and ESA has painted a masterpiece with Designer Carnage”- ReGen Magazine
”Every single sound has to be uniformly ordered in it’s chaos to bring about the sounds that have made Jamie the KING of electronic music” - Electrovox
‘’The single Rats Come Together is a brutal, bone-crushing ride, dripping with dirty, destructive grooves that slam together metal, industrial, and techno-like steel doors in a storm. It’s harsh and relentless, a gut-punch of grinding beats and corrosive rhythms, twisting and churning with the manic energy of NIN on a caffeine binge” - Post-Punk.com
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