Ahead of their headline show at London’s acclaimed Rich Mix venue on 19th January, Brazilian tropical mutant punk funk duo Tetine launch a brand-new video for “Spaced Out in Paradise”, taken from their new album After the Future – out now on Slum Dunk Music, 2023.
The video for “Spaced Out in Paradise” was directed by Tetine’s vocalist/keyboard player Eliete Mejorado and recorded in different locations around greater London. It was conceived as an auto-philosophical-experimental sci-fi of a utopian, ecological and hallucinatory verve, articulated under distinct temporalities and spaces, where pasts, presents, futures (and non-futures) overlap amid a third new existential order yet to come. One apparent order that presents itself simultaneously as post-global and post-local, however in frank disintegration.
““Spaced Out in Paradise” is a dark, lysergic mutant and atmospheric electronic pop that we wrote as an existentialist yet compulsively utopian call to navigate our deteriorated and fragile present time.”
“The song is about the condition of being lost in time as contemporary aliens, survivors, and zombies inhabiting what we call “paradise” in continual disintegration. But it is also a song about trying to establish other modes of communication and perception with the invisible, the uncanny and the possibility of navigating through distinct multi-dimensional spheres.”
“We are searching for a portal, an EXIT of what we call the current Third New World Order, which exists in a kind of limbo, that is neither post-global nor post-local.”
“I think the big question is: Are we in connection with something else, something bigger than this, or is it only surveillance, and ad-infinitum capitalism?”
“Spaced Out in Paradise is about the possibility of finding another form of planetary contact in the cosmos. It is unashamedly utopian. The dream is the portal, the only real exit from ‘the real’, the last refuge.”
