10LEC6: Ayong Ya Yop

Stink Rising director Felix Brady helms a superbly strange promo for Ayong Ya Yop, taken from the album Bone Bame by French band 10LEC6. The collective has pioneered a dance/electronica/punk/post-punk mash-up they call 'Bulupunk' as it features Cameroon vocalist Nicole Adjabe singing, rapping and shouting in the Bantou dialect of Bulu. 

Remixed by NYC producer Tony Quattro, the track has an alarmingly erratic mood that the director has matched by a gripping, capricious film. Shot on location in Kazakhstan, it comprises an arresting series of dreamlike/nightmarish/sci-fi images that follow a Kazakh worker praying, howling, wandering through wheatfields, trudging through wastelands and becoming increasingly agitated by his collection of what could be ball bearings.

Brady says: "The track's form was constantly changing, from deep, moaning bass synths to afro-induced metallica. It was almost schizophrenic; as a result it gave me gaps and tonal changes that offered a huge opportunity for an experimental visual.

“These paradoxical motifs inspired me to create the story of a conflicted character within a dystopian future. Everything I had ever shot up until then had been set in a relatively normal, UK-based backdrop so it was exciting to create a world outside of that. Kazakhstan with its arid landscapes provided the perfect unforgiving world, it also provided our incredible lead, Zharylkassynuly Yerzhan, who despite not speaking a word of English carried the role perfectly."