The music video for my new single Schrödinger´s Cats can be watched now on YouTube and Rumble.

It is a very simple video, just a three piece band playing the song. I think that this simplicity fits well to the character of the song, which has a rather simple arrangement of just drums, bass and guitar. It is also one of the most intimate and honest songs I have written so far.

We shot the video at Studio Calmo in Fuengirola, Spain. Artemio Golovko operated the camera, I did the editing myself. In the same studio we had recorded the drums a few weeks earlier. Facundo García plays drums on the track and in the video. Alfons López, the owner of the studio, can be seen playing bass and singing backing vocals, but actually he did neither of it. He only acted for the video, as the original musicians live in Mexico.

The real bass player is Iñaki Moreno, an Argentinian who lives in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, where most of the song was recorded. It was produced by Alejandro de Feo, another Argentinian living in Playa. Alejandro also played lead guitars and sang harmony vocals. Iñaki and Alejandro both play in a band called Astrosonic, which performs cover songs at corporate events and weddings.

When we shot the video, the song wasn’t ready yet, so we played along to a rough, unfinished mix. That’s why I asked Alfons to pretend he was just singing ‘Ah-Hah’ as background vocals. He couldn’t lip-sync, as is usually done in music videos, but just opened his mouth. Alejandro later added harmony vocals that matched the video – a rather unusual approach, but it worked.

For the final chord, I asked Alejandro to sing harmonies similar to those in ‘She Loves You’ by The Beatles. I showed him this video in which Paul McCartney explains to Jimmy Fallon on his talk show how they did it. Paul, Jimmy and a band member even sang the three-part harmony live. The ‘yeah, yeah, yeah’ part starts at around 6:10, it’s worth watching!