Synopsis
"The Nest - Kairos" is a surreal, collage-like music video built from vintage dance footage and rapidly assembled visual fragments. Dancers move with exaggerated, old-fashioned gestures while the editing places them against the stark surroundings of an autobahn, creating an odd tension between human movement and industrial space. The cut-and-paste presentation mirrors the track's dense blend of electronic pulses, jazz textures, sampled voices and uneasy rhythms, giving the video the feel of a strange dance ritual unfolding beside a modern highway.
Factoids & Trivia
- "Kairos" appears on The Nest's second album, "Sayweenjoy," which was released on May 23, 2014 through Albumlabel.
- The video was presented as a montage rather than a conventional narrative production. Its vintage dance footage, abrupt visual combinations and autobahn setting contribute to the deliberately surreal tone.
- The Nest is a Cologne-based group whose members have been associated with Bohren & der Club of Gore, Desmond Denker and SFX.
- "Sayweenjoy" was recorded in a single weekend at Neukolln Studios in Cologne-Mulheim and later mixed in Berlin.
- The album's music combines contemporary electronics, musique concrete and jazz. The band describes its vocals as rhythmically supportive and sample-like, while the saxophone often functions as the principal melodic voice.
- Contemporary coverage connected "Kairos" with ideas of belonging, forming groups and finding a place within a collective, adding a thematic layer to the video's imagery of bodies moving together.