DOV is a strong creative transplant from Tel Aviv to Brooklyn, mixing alt-pop sensibilities with varied different eclectic influences to discover the numerous features of his life as a queer and Jewish immigrant. The son of a Left-Wing political activist, DOV left Israel behind after feeling like his life as a queer liberal musician and artist got here into battle with the backdrop of his house metropolis.
For his latest launch, DOV and recording artist Tesha have come collectively for a profoundly stunning new single titled “Maintain You Down.” The tune is a collaboration between the 2 souls, who discovered consolation in making music collectively after experiencing the lack of family members. DOV misplaced his mother in 2021, and Tesha misplaced each of her mother and father some time in the past. The tune is a strong expression of grief and loss, and it’s a testomony to the therapeutic energy of artwork.
After releasing his EP, DOV wished to create a music video for “Maintain You Down” to visually convey the grief over the lack of their family members. The video encompasses a voguer named Josiah “Aries” Martinez-Wade, who represents DOV’s mom. The video is impressed by the artwork of voguing, a kind of dance that originated within the African American and Latino LGBTQ+ ballroom scene in New York Metropolis within the Nineteen Eighties. It’s characterised by sharp, angular actions and poses which might be impressed by trend magazines and runway exhibits.
For the music video, DOV handed the artistic rains over to director Jean Charles Charavin who began from the idea of grief to develop a cinematic efficiency piece to convey the insufferable, saying: “I crafted a disjointed story between a fiction movie and a dance to symbolize the feelings that may observe after a interval of mourning. Moments which might be each hazy, surreal, and very intense. For me, dance is a poetic solution to inform quite a lot of issues. The movie doesn’t search to convey a particular message or construct a really linear narration. Everybody can discover their very own interpretation and perceive what they want. It was essential for me that the movie remained poetic and open to interpretation.”
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