[URBAN NOTE] "Belarusian Rock Band Thinks Toronto is Fun"

[rfmcdonald]

Torontoist's Hamutal Dotan reported on a music video by Belarusian rock group Lyapis Trubetskoy (Russian: Ляпис Трубецкой), originally posted in the toronto Livejournal community, that features Toronto.

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When I went over to YouTube I found it had 109,314 views.

Dotan noted that the video doesn't connect lyrically to Toronto. Rather, Toronto--and the Niagara Falls--are a starting point, as a polace providing stock imagery and perspectives.

Group "Lapis Trubeckoy" presented in the Internet video for the song "I Believe" from their new album "Fun." Director of the video was Alexei Terekhov, who shot for a group of famous clips "Ay", "Capital" and "Lights."

Visual range of the new movie is based on minimizing the effect of the world—shot in real life, people, ships, vehicles and aircraft in the video turned into toys from children's designer, hurriedly scurrying hither and thither. In contrast, in the frame periodically appears gigantic and all-powerful Sergei Mihalok.

"In this clip, I tried to convey the impression that the person who is small fry, an ant compared to the infinite universe, really, a very important element of a whole," says Alexey Terekhov. In principle, the used technology is already quite well known in world, but it was important the combination of form and meaning of the song. Because quite often we have seen in the clips form for form's sake at the level of: "Oh, look how I can do." And I always try to fill in the form of an idea.

"Like." They picked us!