Above: Black Blessed Night, by Two Dark Birds. Music video shot by Scott Kawczynski.
Two Dark Birds, the Pakatakan Mountain-based band that released its latest CD this fall, makes no bones about how much nicer it is in the Catskills than it is in New York City. Front man Steve Koester told us in an interview in November that the whole new album, Songs for the New, is an ode to escaping from the metropolis to the woods.
Now the band has taken its Catskills-loving escapism and its identification with avians up a notch. A new music video for one of the songs from the album, Black Blessed Night, features Koester literally donning wings and flapping up to the mountains along with his bandmates. Watch it all above.
As PopMatters put it, "Obviously, Koester is super pleased with his new residence." Yes indeed -- the video ends with Koester literally flying off into a Catskills sunset.
The video features several local touches. Koester tells us via email that much of the shooting took place in Middletown and Andes. And the long-haired, hat-wearing "prospector" that Koester-as-bird encounters is played by Scott Hill, the co-owner of the Delaware Trading Post in Andes.
