The dark gothy video for Brisbane’s Gazar Strips “Bee Mantis” brings to mind the words foreboding, ominous, and smoke machine.Filmed by Jim Kearnan at drummer Marty Taylor’s apartment in a gothy sounding building named Neidpath (which is in the top left corner of this 1930s photograph of the Hamilton shark weighing station) the video is as dark and moody as the song is tense.Taken from the EP Sparkling, the video features backlit silhouettes of the band that contrast with shots of microscopic insects and sea life that follow a story that bassist Atlas Harwood wrote based around an African creation myth.'Sparkling' is out now on Sonic Masala records.
