the last dinosaur is the duo of Jamie Cameron and Luke Hayden, sometimes with friends, recording music the old fashioned way with multi-track analog tape machines and no computers. They are in the process of putting an album together and while they're about it have been posting videos to accompany their new songs. Here, they accompany the Budd-like ambience of "Gusts of Wind Blowing in Different Directions" with frankly mesmerizing footage of starlings flocking before settling to roost in the twilit southwest of Scotland. (The original film, with natural sound, can be found here.)
Our post title, meanwhile, references Laurie Anderson and Peter Gabriel, from Nam June Paik's "Good Morning Mr. Orwell," the rather self-important international satellite broadcast/installation of January 1, 1984, acknowledging the moment when that ominous year metamorphosed from Frightful Future to Promising Present en route to becoming the Pedestrian Past. Few things age so quickly as the avant-garde.
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