Video Of The Day PAPILLON DE NUIT
Started in 2024, Papillon de Nuit is a collaborative project centered around the York, UK-based songwriter, lyricist, multi-instrumentalist and longtime concert promoter/band shepherding as The Velvet Sheep, Stephen Kennedy, featuring on each release an ever-changing line-up of additional musicians and guest singers, who blend elements of classical, found sounds, opera, and spoken-word vocals, to create suspenseful, hauntingly emotional, epic soundscapes.
Papillon de Nuit drops a video by Steve Whitfield (of Scenius, and Klammer), also at the production and mixing helm, for the sixth single “Frozen Charlotte”.
“A Dark, Gothic, Victorian morality tale about the folly of vanity, and the tragedy of infatuation”, that shudders through rattling martial percussive patterns and creeping round bass throbs to drive impassioned vocals of sadness and anger through sweeping intervals of calamitous piano keys laced with weeping and poignant lush orchestral cello-led arrangements, unto a poetic interlude where winds howl around an ominous bell toll and female spoken words reveal the tragic passing of “Frozen Charlotte”.
Poetic lyrics talk about a woman who, rather than bundling up to stay warm, freezes to death in order to show off her dress and hair. A film by Steve Whitfield brings the story to life by shuffling dreamy Cottonbro scenes of a Victorian-era woman wearing a beautiful ivory gown with bleak black and white forest imagery, and an array of sentimental suggestions, syncing seamlessly with the timeless romance of the soundtrack.
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