93 Bulls
Take in the Clara Moutone video for 93 Bulls’ single “Denim Pockets” featured off the self-titled EP available later this year. Shining with some production from Los Angeles Police Department’s own Ryan Pollie & Brendan Lynch-Salamon; Cool Calm Chrys is seen sharing his most chilled out rhymes in the best end of summer party of mega-chill vibes that we hope will carry through the winter season.
“Denim Pockets” features 93 Bulls’ Cool Calm Chrys & company kicking it poolside with a slow frame rate to match the slowed symphonic-soundtrack sample that serves as the back beat canvas for Chrys reflective & meditative expression stream. A birthday celebration & a metaphor for existing in the middle of the party that is life is seen as a decadent soirée with the sickest So Cal society of all around cool cats. From patio lawn chair chil-ax seshes, inflatable raft naps, sipping suds & enjoying the presence of good buds; the question we find ourselves asking after is where can we find that awesome 90s Microsoft parka that Chrys is rocking?
93 Bulls’ own Cool Calm Chrys shared the following thoughts on the making of the single & video with the following insights from our recent conversation:
“Denim Pockets” is a track built on the back of an amazing melancholy sample from a looped Star Wars vinyl that Ryan dug up out of one of his crates. Lyrically, it’s a introspective look on my own personal demons and struggles but ultimately leads to another day, another dollar. Definitely a deeper track and more honest than we’ve done before. The video is a reflection of that. The party is the world we live in. The spectators and people having fun are the outside world enjoying the world we live in. And I’m just caught in the middle trying to make it to the end stage. We really are stoked with this one and are glad to send it over to you.
Director Clara Moutone also talked to us about the making of the video & shared this behind-the-scenes sequence:
Working with Ryan and Chrys from 93 Bulls felt super natural. After listening to the dope song “Denim Pockets”, I could really feel how Chrys opened his heart to give birth to a sincere testimony of a man and artist struggling sometimes to keep it up. It is a very personal message but also something that a lot of us can relate to. After brainstorming with the boys, I imagined Chrys wandering into a chill LA pool party, singing his soul to the camera and not really paying attention to the rest of the people. They all trying to interact with him, ’cause they are conscious of the fact that we are shooting a music video, but all he cares about is his message, and smoking da weed, to end up falling in the pool. It can be read as a desire to disappear, but also a rebirth. The reading is open. We also wanted to mix the media (4K vid and DV camera) to mix nostalgia and contemporary dope technology we have now as a link between generations. The transition between the two of them is a desire to have a classical performance music video and a more doc style one, like a behind the scenes, where we can see the DP resting with a beer after he shot this one-shot sequence.
We did everything in three hours, gathering friends. It was shot in my house, and the party in the video really felt like one we would have had: good people drinking cheep beers and enjoying the LA sun with deep gratitude of the luck we have, but also how we got there, like Chrys is singing in “Denim Pockets”. It was shot right before I had to leave this house because we got evicted after a big birthday party my roommate—actually the dude who introduced me to 93 Bulls—had for his 25th birthday. Pretty sweet and ironical I would say.
The debut 93 Bulls self-titled EP will be available later this year.
