Icelandic alternative rock band Agent Fresco completed work on the video for their song "Howls" - the fourth single from the critically acclaimed new studio album "Destrier".
The video features the band performing the song at their sold out release concert at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik. Agent Fresco will head on a massiv European tour starting mid of November. Please see all dates below.
Watch the new video for "Howls" here: https://show.co/e7zZkni
Agent Fresco Singer Arnór Dan Arnarson On Making The Video:
"Baldvin Z, the Icelandic award winning director (Life in a Fishbowl) who also directed our video for "Tempo" initially called me to congratulate us on our new album and our talk led us quickly to the idea of a new collaboration. I knew that we had to work with the song HOWLS and we both thought it would be fun to try and use that triumphant sound and visually captivate the magical atmosphere before and during our sold out release concert at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, where Destrier was performed in its entirety by a total of 15 musicians. This video is meant to be a tribute to our dear friends who joined us on stage and to the audience who made this an unforgettable experience.
We're also very happy to announce that the entire concert was recorded by the Icelandic TV station Stöð 2 and it will be premiered later this year! Baldvin actually single handedly presented and sold the idea to Stöð 2 without even talking to us in the first place, haha! A mad talent and a great guy indeed!
When it came to the editing and colour correction, we instantly went back to Kári Jóhannsson and GÃsli Þór Brynjólfsson, who also helped us in creating the official videos for See Hell and Wait For Me. Fantastic guys who just know how to collaborate with artists in a professional and easy manner. I can't praise them enough for their help and hopefully this won't be the last time that we all work together."
Guitarist Þórarinn Guðnason On Writing "Howls":
"I believe that Howls was the last song that I wrote for Destrier. I realised that everything I had been composing up to that moment had been quite melancholic. I had just gotten out of a long relationship and that may have had some impact on my songwriting. It was then when I made the decision that the final song should be in a major key, be triumphant and sound as energetic as possible. I even arranged trumpets for this song that our good friend Bergur Þórisson recorded for us." Singer Arnór Dan adds, "Lyrically I always chase whatever emotions the instrumental composition feeds me and the obvious joy and energy that's going on just instantly reminded me of how naive and dangerous the relationship to nostalgia can be. The song serves as a personal escape to dreamy days of innocence and the words and melodies are meant to be sugarcoated enough for the listener to realise that the story is just a selective romantic cloud and not something to lean on. It's a seductive illusion that's fun to toy with and performing this song live makes me feel like a kid again."
Agent Fresco Destrier European Tour
presented by Visions, Eclipsed, PRETTYINNOISE.DE, NBHAP.COM, Alreadyheard,
NMC Live & Long Branch Records:
04.11.2015 - Reykjavik (IS) / Iceland Airwaves Festival
18.11.2015 - Utrecht (NL) / dB's
20.11.2015 - Maastricht (NL) / Muziekgieterij
21.11.2015 - Louvain-la-Neuve (BEL) / Festival la Ferme
22.11.2015 - Leeds (UK) / Belgrave Music Hall
23.11.2015 - Glasgow (UK) / Ivory Blacks
24.11.2015 - Milton Keynes (UK) / Craufurd Arms
25.11.2015 - London (UK) / Dingwalls (upgraded from The Black Heart)
26.11.2015 - Paris (F) / Le Klub
27.11.2015 - Oberhausen (D) / Air Pressure Festival
28.11.2015 - Dresden (D) / Beatpol
29.11.2015 - Warsaw (PL) / Hydrozagadka
01.12.2015 - Prague (CZ) / Rock Cafe
02.12.2015 - Vienna (A) / B72
03.12.2015 - Ljubljana (SLO) / Channel Zero
04.12.2015 - Milan (I) / Circolo Svolta
05.12.2015 - Genf (CH) / Usine
06.12.2015 - Zürich (CH) / Kinski
07.12.2015 - München (D) / Ampere
08.12.2015 - Nürnberg (D) / Club Stereo
09.12.2015 - Zwolle (NL) / Hedon
10.12.2015 - Osnabrück (D) / Kleine Freiheit
11.12.2015 - Hannover (D) / Lux
12.12.2015 - Weinheim (D) / Cafe Central
13.12.2015 - Wiesbaden (D) / Kesselhaus
15.12.2015 - Gothenburg (S), Sticky Fingers (support for Crippled Black Phoenix)
16.12.2015 - Oslo (N), John Dee (support for Crippled Black Phoenix)
17.12.2015 - Stockholm (S), Debaser Strand (support for Crippled Black Phoenix)
18.12.2015 - Copenhagen (DK) / Beta
19.12.2015 - Helsinki (FI), Tavastia
20.12.2015 - Moscow (RUS) / Teatr
