I went to see Safe, AKA Chris Edley play a few week ago at ATA. You can’t exactly tell from my blurry photography, but Chris was singing over beats recorded onto a VHS, which also contained a video of him kneeling shirtless in front of the camera singing along. It ain’t easy to stand up in front of a seated audience to sing along with a tape so props to him for entertaining the shit out of a tired audience. How do I know it was a tired audience? Because most of us were at the same party the night before.
Safe’s new record is available now from Greedhead/Lasercave. Check out Bob Weicz’s video for the hit “20 Years On”
I met Chris a few months ago, and I was realy excited because as my friend Jesse put it, “Everyone seems to know who he is.” And I guess, I know Chris now too. Does that make me cool?
Speaking of Jesse, he organized the event as part of his monthy Deap Leap Microcinema series, which features some amazingly curated expirimental video. How he watches/ makes so much of that stuff without having a seizure, I’ll never know. More blurry photography after the jum.
