Not Waving – How To Leave Your Body

On How To Leave Your Body, five tracks from Not Waving’s new album of the same name are set to an “emotive collage of vérité lockdown footage” compiled and edited by Berlin-based visual artists Michael Amstad and Marte Eknæs. Filmed by friends and collaborators of the producer, the footage unfolds across 20 minutes, edited into a short film that’s part documentary, part fever dream. Split into four parts, the film features a giallo horror story featuring album collaborator Spivak as a ghost, a dinosaur attack, footage of Not Waving doing DIY, and footage of an outdoor children’s theatre filmed in Sardinia before finishing with a geometric chase sequence. How To Leave Your Body was released earlier this month, and features contributions from a cast of collaborators that includes Jim O’Rourke, Jonnine Standish, Spivak and Mark Lanegan. The album reflects on friendship, loss and spiritual transcendence across 11 tracks that cover “elegiac pop, skewed rave and midnight lullabies”.