EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS: DESERT SONG/KISSES OVER BABYLON

Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, the 10-piece psych-folk-rock ensemble released 2 videos last year, which are part of an epic  12-part feature-length musical.

PART 1, “Desert Song”, features footage of singer Alex Ebert’s father chanting in Monument Valley – shot by his mother and is about Alex’s reckoning with the middle name his father secretly wrote on his birth certificate – a Native American name which means ‘Devil’ or ‘Demon’.

PART 2, “Kisses Over Babylon” was released in November and picks up in the same desert wasteland world, ravaged by drought. Edward is arrested by two Minors (police from Ursa Minor) for the murder of his own father, and taken to a water-labor prison. There he reunites with Brother, his long-ago friend, and rallies the prisoners to a frenzied prison break.

Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros “KISSES OVER BABYLON” from Edward Sharpe on Vimeo.