{"id":89380,"date":"2025-01-07T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T10:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=89380"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T10:31:59","slug":"mark-ciani-releases-lyric-video-for-latest-indie-alternative-track-some-kind-of-purgatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2025\/01\/mark-ciani-releases-lyric-video-for-latest-indie-alternative-track-some-kind-of-purgatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Ciani Releases Lyric Video For Latest Indie Alternative Track, &#8216;Some Kind Of Purgatory&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Insisting that, &#8220;No, I\u2019m not gonna break&#8221;, right from the start, NYC based artist Mark Ciani sounds resolute in his new single, &#8216;Some Kind Of Purgatory&#8217;.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He&#8217;s a man who refuses to lose, and yet at the same time, his voice shows something of the great emotional strain he&#8217;s under. He&#8217;s been driven to the edge of a precipice, and over three and a half minutes he conveys by way of adventurous, experimental &#8211; at times discordant &#8211; fearless art-rock, he lays his cards in front of him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The main character in Ciani\u2019s song is trapped in some kind of purgatory, but he&#8217;s certainly not going to stay calm while he&#8217;s there. He&#8217;s after a resolution, and he&#8217;s desperate to get there, by all means necessary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lyric video, created by Mike Kundrath, is equally matched to the thoughtfulness of the song&#8217;s writing, and takes just as much care as Ciani does himself with his words. The director uses the set pieces symbolically: frayed ropes, televisions that are on the way out, mobile phones with their ghostly blue light, are juxtaposed with flocks of birds, frantically flying heavenward, to cloud covered skies. It&#8217;s all a stunning metaphor and works well with the song. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can watch the music video for &#8216;Some Kind Of Purgatory&#8217; below, and follow Mark Ciani online for more about his music on <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/mtc2104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ciani_notsuzanne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_12614\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" 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