FAN DEATH KILLS. It’s not often a song comes imaginable. musically inspired by everything from proto-
along that hits you square between the ears and Sashaying into the room on a great sweep of house to ’80s synth pop, Prince to Depeche
makes you stop dead in your tracks, jaw agape. orchestral strings that would make Chic jealous, Mode, via the sublime questing experiments
But ‘Veronica’s Veil’, by Canada’s Fan Death a sultry vocal half Siouxsie Sioux, half Madonna, of Kate Bush, Talk Talk and Japan, the band
— out now on Erol Alkan’s nascent Phantasy and cosmic undercurrents of electronic bass, the swirl together these disparate components into
Sounds label — is just such a song. And, make no track has already built a cult following that looks a miasma of galactic beauty. And with their
mistake, it is a song. set to tip them into the wider consciousness this seriously sexy, funky image, as evinced by the
The product of Marta Jaciubek-McKeever and year. single’s far-out, Mexico set music video — like an
Dandi Wind Opaine’s fevered imaginations, Fan Death may have the nous and sass to bring insane collision of maverick directors Jodorowsky
‘Veronica’s Veil’ announces the enigmatic the hedonistic, euphoric feeling of the classic and Fellini — Fan Death have tunes, will travel.
duo with a sliver of retro-future disco so disco song back into our lives, but this isn’t the “We knew we wanted to represent the ‘Veronica’s
infectious it’s bound to burrow its way into your only string to their mystical bow. Veil’ idea in the video, so we came up with the
consciousness like the most virulent earworm Named after a bizarre Korean urban legend, concept of this never-ending veil with me at
where a ceiling fan is said to create a vacuum of the one end and Marta at the other,” explained
air, causing asphyxiation to unwary sleepers, and Dandi. “I have some fi lm maker friends who
live in Mexico and they knew I wanted to do
something there, so I talked to them, and they
funded us fl ying out there.”
Marta and Dandi met in 2004, and shortly after
the former’s move to New York City, they began to
collaborate on music.
“While she was in New York we decided to start
Fan Death,” remembered Dandi, “I was in NY with
her and we started off a track, and then Sam my
boyfriend laid down all the demos for it. Marta
had to come back to Canada for Visa purposes,
to get her Green Card, and both of us are here in
Vancouver now.”
After ‘Veronica’s Veil’ was posted on tastemaker
blog 20 Jazz Funk Greats, it came to the attention
of a certain Mr Alkan, who got in touch with
the duo and snapped it up for release. With
anticipation for their next single reaching fever
pitch, Marta and Dandi are readying an album,
and a special one-off for Italians Do It Better:
they’ll have a legion of new fans before the year
is out.
TO DIE FOR
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