News via the blacklist:Colin has teamed up with Cork-based filmmaker and video artist David Bickley to create a unique full-length film to accompany the Black album “Water On Stone”.
“I uncovered a narrative in the album which had echoes back to ancient mythology,” says David, “and had an idea for a 35 minute film that takes the viewer on a journey through the songs in the manner of an ancient saga”. David and Colin then began sequencing the tracks, developing the story and scouting for evocative locations steeped in history and mythology.
"This is one of the most fascinating projects I've ever worked on," says Colin. "David's imagination and film-making expertise have added a new layer of rich imagery and meaning without taking anything away from the original album. It's exciting for any artist to see their work expanded upon and moved into a completely different place from the one originally intended for it and I'm very happy with the result."
The world premiere will be shown as part of the fringe of the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival in Schull, West Cork, on May 28th. The 7pm screening will be at Hacketts, Main Street, Schull where both Colin and David will introduce and talk about the film. The event will be streamed live over the internet on our Ustream channel here.
The album
There is some remaining stock of "Water On Stone" the album as a special 'pre-release' CD with an extra disk of videos and artwork via our website - however, it is now also available for download via iTunes and CDBaby. Also available for download on CDBaby is "The Given' which will be on iTunes imminently - we'll let you know when that happens.
Coming soon
"The Given" will soon be available for the first time as a physical CD. It will be on sale individually and as part of a box-set of previously sold-out Colin/Black back-catalogue. Again we'll let you know just as soon as we have everything in stock so please ensure you keep your Blacklist information up to date.
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On the 2nd of June 2005 Black played at the Met Arts Centre, Bury, UK. Colin kindly let us film this show with a number of cameras, then the whole footage was then mixed & edited together with a soundboard audio recording made by Rob Peters.
There are only 90 copies of the artwork left after sending out the freebies so first come first served!
