La Vida Bohème Releases New 'Flamingo' Video with 'Spooky, Walt Disney-Inspired' Animation by Gorillaz Artists
Latin alternative indie band La Vida Bohème, who hails from Caracas, Venezuela, has wowed the world with its punk rock, political and thought-provoking lyrics. Now the popular band is getting animated with the release of its new video for the song "Flamingo" off of their Latin Grammy-nominated album, "Nuestra."
Last week, the video premiered in the U.S. on Remezcla and in Mexico and Latin America on the popular blog Lifeboxset.
Inspired by The Ramones, La Vida Bohème, who also won a Latin Grammy for Best Rock Album in 2013, is changing up its style of videos and incorporating "spooky animation inspired by Walt Disney." The video is directed by Carl Zitelmann and produced by Cesar Elster, who tapped into a talented pool of artists known for animating videos for the famous British group Gorillaz.
Gorillaz is a virtual band created in 1998 by Damon Albarn of Britpop band Blur and Jamie Hewlett, co-creator of the comic book, "Tank Girl." The band is composed of four animated band members: 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel.
"'Flamingo' was aired before every showing of the Oscar-winning film 'Gravity,' which made it the most-viewed Venezuelan animation with over 1 million viewers. It has also made its rounds in the film festival circuit around Latin America and the U.S.," according to Nacional Records.
While Venezuela has experienced a lot of turmoil, the band hopes that it music can provide an outlet to its people and inspire more dialogue and communication for tech-savvy, Latino millenials like themselves.
"We are very happy to be millennials -- we had access to information that our parents didn't have access to, and it wasn't expensive to access it. The Internet has democratized us. That information has allowed us to make our own take on punk or genres that actually started many years before we came and started from different nations than the nation we were born into. So, we're pretty optimistic about the future of music in that sense, at least in Latin America, or with Spanish-speaking music," La Vida Bohème's lead singer Henry D'Arthenay told Latin Post in an earlier interview during the Pachanga Latino Music Festival on Saturday, May 10, in Austin.
La Vida Bohème, which includes lead D'Arthenay, Sebastian Ayala, Rafael Perez Medina and Daniel De Sousa, performed on the Hierba stage at the Pachanga Fest, which features Latino-created art and music from traditional and contemporary, indie, rock and alternative to cumbia, ranchera, electronic, hip-hop and others.
The band's second album "Será" is comprised of 15 tracks that blend electronic, rock, punk, disco, merengue, joropo, calipso waltz and lay.
Check out the video for "Flamingo" off of the band's 2010 Latin Grammy nominated album, "Nuestra."