Brava Kilo & Annie Sumi - Kintsugi (Official Video)

The song is called KINTSUGI, as is the art-installation where we built songs and videos into my grandmother’s sewing machine, and made them accessible via magnets and sensors to anyone who activates the pedal of the antique machine.
KINTSUGI is a traditional Japanese art form that uses a gold resin to fix broken ceramics. It’s a practice about emphasizing the beauty of the damage and the repair. Our song KINTSUGI is about that too. It’s about the bruise you don’t want to fade. It’s about coming to understand that what makes us who we are is forged through hurt. It’s about trauma, inter-generational and otherwise. It’s about holding our wounds up, proud, for all to see!
Annie and I wrote the song together, she sang it, and I played the bass and synths and the drum machine. That’s Joshua Van Tassel on drum kit and Robbie Grunwald on piano and Wurlitzer, and that’s Annie’s dad Craig speaking, a sample captured mid-conversation. Mixing by Joshua Van Tassel and mastering by Dreamlands Mastering and shadow puppetry by Mind of a Snail and background nature video capture by me, in Slocan, BC right where an internment camp once stood.

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