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This is the first of 3 videos to be released with a 1 week interval. Another Substitute represents the continuation and expansion of “A Substitute for Love“, released in December 2021. If the first song dealt with the topic of bulimia and indifference, this 3 parts suite switches the focus on the influence of capitalist power relationships within the realm of love: experiencing the Otherness as a matter of consumption, as a product to be replaced as soon as this gets obsolete and improductive. Hunger turns to greed in this long track, caught in the machinery of power establishment reproduction throughout the series of substitutes, a series that promises liberation and self determination while it shows the underlying truth of the dominance of the object over the illusion of the subject. This first part is musically a prelude, characterized by a hypnotizing beginning, almost a mantra, leading to the main spoken part with the evocative voice of the French polyhedric artist Valérie Hendrich, and ending with a bass solo. The video, a third collaboration with Max Berg, contains striking and unsettling images, depicts in a plastic manner the symbolic overpower of money, literally covering the body, and a Totentanz with the faceless embodiment of consumption. A mortal soliloquy is added at the end of the main video. Vocals French in “Tarte Tatare“: Valérie Hendrich Mix and Master: Modern Nihilism Recordings Artworks: Anastasiia Zapelska Director, Camera, Montage, Script Montage Actresses / Actors 1) Tarte Tatare En partageant ta jeunesse Entre vie et argent Fantomatique ménage à trois. Parmi les yeux brûlants, Par plusieurs enrichie, Les avantages de la bourgeoisie. Le corps violent et volant, En baisant en série, Dans la poche de ton petit ami. Et ma bouche ouverte, D'un silence étonnant, Les membres vibrent au son de l'argent.
