Premiere: Zenith Volt darts across the universe in new video, ‘Lost and Found’
This week, His Holiness the Dalai Lama presented a sage morsel of thought at the Mind & Life Conversations summit. “Modern science has detailed knowledge of the material world but much less understanding of mind and our inner world. The second purpose [of this meeting], in the context of highly developed knowledge and complex economies, is to ask whether people are happy,” he offered. Moderated by Mind & Life’s president Susan Bauer-Wu, the event marks one of many such gatherings during which knowledge is exchanged, faith is applied and the attendees walk away a bit more enlightened.
Electronic pop creator Zenith Volt shoots across his own cosmic sense of wonder, thought and psychedelia. “Lost and Found,” which features a world-defying visual, premiering today, springs from starry synth-work and a monstrous vocal eruption. “The better part of the day is waiting in store / Keep your sacred seconds sifting through your hands like sand / We’ve all got our demands,” he casts his heart into an iron-fed flame. Yanking it back, he then zooms far and away the here and now for a futuristic swerve into the psychological. He mines deeper contexts, spun on a mechanical loom, and returns stricken with unimaginable wisdom.
“We walk to the beat of our dreams / We run though the shadows and screams,” he calls through a flurry of stars and other gaseous bodies. “I soak in the light of the sun / Feeling like I’m the only one.” His sojourn takes him all the way to the outskirts of space and time, at which he teeters on the unknown, before vaulting back to what he has come to know as reality. The hook, then, becomes his official mission statement: “All the wonder that moves us around / In this lost and found / Through all the thunder, we’re safe and we’re sound / In this lost and found.”
On the song and video, directed by Ryan P., Volt writes to B-Sides & Badlands over email: “‘Lost and Found’ is about perspective in the cerebral, as well as the physical world. Objects and situations amongst us are what they are but can be interpreted in an infinite number of ways depending on the viewer,” he considers.
His cryptic nature serves to permit the viewer to analyze at their leisure. “We’re in the middle of always / Picking up pieces of daybreak / Moving inside of your bloodstream / Breathing between all your daydreams,” he sings. Zenith Volt’s imagery sinks ever-downward and spins to a molecular level, where uncertainty is demanding and we are at the mercy of our subconscious.
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