Built with the ashes of many more or less alternative groups of the 80s, 90s and 2000s (Dirty Time, Petit Futur, Amazing Games, Unsaid … among others), Factheory, the Belgian Post Punk group, made of Bruno Uyttersprot (vocals, guitar and main lyricist), Dominique Nuydt (bass, synths, drums programming) and Stefan Weidemann (guitar), have shared the visuals, directed by the South of France-born, Brussels and Marseille-based Stéphane Manzone, for the latest single, “Bird of Time”, featuring Michael Sordinia from the legendary late 70s/80s Post Punk, still “alive and kicking” band The Names on vocals.
An nostalgic and emotional folk-tinged ballad that sways on offbeat, shifting drums and lively meandering basslines, amid crisp intervals of rolling percussion, layered with sentimental twinkling arpeggiated guitar melodies and light shimmery strums, alongside a slightly sung heartfelt male duet, that rises with low pitch, abrasive riffs, into a grunge laced chorus, to explore the “Bird of Time” unto a rapid intense rattling climax where unity and surrender cry out.
In the soul-stirring companion video by Stéphane Manzone, shot in Brussels at the Bois de la Cambre park, perception shifts between engaging present-day black and white clips and vintage stained childhood memories. A beautiful duck flies through the sky, aligning the body, mind, and soul with the beauty, balance, and insight of the natural world. Woven within the vision, Factheory and Michael Sordinia perform “Bird of Time” in a bar, the New Rocky Pompadour, on the Parvis de Saint-Gilles, in sync with the heartfelt nostalgia of the soundtrack.
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