Munich-based artist and stage designer Stefan Britze realized an impressing stage concept for the release party of COLUMBUS’ “Schwarzes Gold”.
It perfectly refers to the songs source of inspiration – „Schwarzes Gold“ was written in 2010 and inspired by the incident in the gulf of Mexico. When Deepwater Horizon sank – making way for the greatest oil spill disaster in history, a clash between technological destructiveness and the vulnerability of the environment became evident.
Therefor Britze made the stage look like drowning in a vast bulk of slimy oil that is leaking from the ceiling – creating the perfect illusion of a black nothing expanding into the room – connecting the artists with their audience.
The overwhelming looks were intensified by multicolor light projections and not least by the huge 3 dimensional COLUMBUS icon protruding from the gleaming mass.
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COLUMBUS’ single “Schwarzes Gold” will be available from Dec, 2nd on vinyl and iTunes – and exclusively on the party in Munich’s hot venue KONG.
Special Guests: IN FLAGRANTI (Codek, NYC)
An evil media demon is attacking the jungle planet where the shaman leader is deadly wounded. The only chance to free mankind from this menace is playing the secret tune of love at the sacred synth tempel.
The music video for our debut single Lovemachine was produced by The Crystal Beach. Starring Sarah Keller as Miss Universe, Amos as the Shaman and Bartellow as the Media Demon. The song is taken from our debut EP Lovemachine (May 2010 on Estrela)