The video was filmed in Morecambe Bay, and we can see a very slow dance choreographed by Rozi and her band’s members, Jamie Whitby Coles, Rachel Horwood, Amaury Ranger and Gerard Black.

 

Ed Tucker, video director, explains:

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“Rozi asked me if I was interested in doing something with her for Conditions. We are old friends, but we had never done something

like that before. The band had a little bit of free time before they

perform in Morecambe, a place we didn’t we didn’t know well,

and we thought we could find some good spots there to do

something. That day we have been very lucky with places

and weather! The framing which became recurrent

(with a nod to Jack Barraclough’s album front cover),

was guided by the places we choose, and their diversity

and we played with all of that.

 

When came the editing, the framing also meant that we could experiment superposition in a very efficient way. It was very cold and everybody

was very patient, motionless in front of the freezing wind”.

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Refined during a year around the world in the bass in This Is The Kit, What A Boost maintains its roots and then turned into an album which is not limited to the life on the road but which is undeniably and magnificently shaped by it. Textural, repetitive, propulsive,

the entire piece is played as the original soundtrack of a flying life.

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Rozi says: 

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“I feel like you’re looking a lot behind, look forward, look at your life and look through the window”.

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What a Boost is also the product of the singular places it has created in. First, there where the Old Dentist’s Studio at the street corner close to Rozi’s home in Clapton, a RAF base in the Suffolk

and a recording studio in L.A. with Chris Cohen. A week of unique collaborative performances organised by Justin Vernon de Bon Iver and Aaron Dessner from The National offered

a new dimension to the songs. Back in London the album really assembled in the Total Refreshment Centre, a quite legendary place in London burgeoning jazz scene.

The former Rozi’s album, Friend, was the first to be recorded there.

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Plain praises:

 

“Ever since, the TRC has become integral part of my life. A great artists and musicians’ community who get things moving, take initiatives”

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Naturally, she came back there for What a Boost and, with the codirector Jamie Whitby Coles, hired some collaborators: Sam Amidon, Rachel Horwood (Bas Jan, Trash Kit), Joel Wästberg, also named Was Was, Raphael Desmarets, Yoshino Shigihara

(Zun Zun Egui, Yama Warashi) and Dan Leavers from

The Comet Is Coming. The album was then mixed

by Ash Workman (Metronomy,

Christine and the Queens) in

its studio Electric Beach.

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Of course, the album is permeated by a feeling of free adventures, of little seeds which push much forward, thanks to repetitive guitar pattern which seem like jazz and to lightly changing tempos which go up and down again. Al of this create an album both coloured and intricate,

which first single Symmetrical set the perfect tone.  

 

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