Ablebody
Ablebody proudly presents the following illustrious pop art video for “Send Me A Letter” ft. Sean Nicholas Savage from Francis Serra and Nicolas Postiglione with editing courtesy of Andrew van Baal that stars Christoph Hochheim, Anton Hochheim, Christine Messersmith, Daniel Rosenbaum, Ben Rollins & Potatoes. Featured off the long awaited album Adult Contemporaries available October 14 from Lolipop Records; Christoph Hochheim with brother Anton & friends but their sophisticated & serious faces forward while displaying some of their most evocative & affectionate pop yet.
Celestial seaside gatherings underneath the spotlight of the moon & stars illustrates an evening spent soaking up the lunar rays beneath the night sky. Those wild Hochheim brothers progressions continuously captivate here on “Letter” as the entire event sets sail like a crystal flamingo floating toward some obscure beach off the coast of nowhere. Again Ablebody bedazzles with chord progressions that feel as they were ordained by the angels or some other celestial source.
From one of our recent conversations with Ablebody, Christoph Hochheim shared the following insights on the video, working with Sean Nicholas Savage & much more:
I met Sean in 2013 at SXSW right after Other Life came out. I was hanging with a friend’s band and pretty much checked out every show of Sean’s that I could; back then he was playing solo with a tiny Casio keyboard he carried around in a backpack, using the programmed drum sounds as his rhythm section. We realized he have a bunch of mutual buds and started hanging throughout the wk but didn’t reconnect till last year when I very randomly spotted him at a taco truck while driving down Santa Monica blvd after work one day. Turns out he was recording Other Death at an apartment a few blocks from where my brother lives. A day before he was scheduled to fly back to Berlin I proposed working on a track that I had him in mind for.
Working with Sean is more just trying to keep up with the whirlwind of ideas that come out of him so effortlessly. Aside from one section that I wrote for him he essentially sat and ‘channeled’ melodic phrases until we both felt he hit on something really special. He would then listen back and harmonize over his melody with insane precision, it was pretty remarkable.
The video was something I had in mind since the moment I finished the lyrics. I knew I wanted it to reflect the isolation of the night but in a familiar setting often associated with community and togetherness, people operating alongside one another but with no acknowledgment of each other. The chorus alludes to a couple who wish each other to be in different places than they are, physically and otherwise. It acknowledges how one flourishes at the other’s expense and how one’s sheltering of their partner seems to squander what they’re more than capable of achieving on their own.
you could send me a letter
that’s addressed to where you want to beshe could swim if you let her
you drift down when i come up to breatheWe shot from 9pm-6am on various beaches in Malibu, setting up and filming for as long as we could until the cops chased us away. My Chilean airbnb roommate at the time helped film but he abruptly disappeared back home shortly after and we had to finish ourselves which took some time but we finally got it to a good place with the help of our friend Andrew Van Baal.
