Damien Jurado has just unleased “Silver Timothy,” the first advance track from his upcoming album Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son, which he recorded again with collaborator Richard Swift at his National Freedom Studios in Cottage Grove, Oregon.
This video for “Silver Timothy,” too, has Oregon origins. Portland-based director Justin Koleszar filmed the clip near Smith Rock State Park in Terrebonne, Oregon. Of the shoot, Koleszar says: “We tested our smoke machine in a Walmart parking lot while enjoying some Coors Lights. Our actor Luke Clements almost died when he stumbled on the edge a cliff that overlooked a 1,000-foot drop. We found a dozen deer hooves in the middle of the desert and later had dinner at Abby’s Legendary Pizza.”
The video is sort of a western sci-fi without really being explicitly either, and the Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son album tells the story of a man walking away from his life to disappear into the wilderness (a theme that echoes his album Maraqopa as well, perhaps distilled on the Brothers and Sisters track “Return to Maraqopa”). The album is populated by a number of characters in addition to Silver Timothy—there’s also Silver Katherine (who appears in the video), Silver Donna, Silver Malcolm, and Silver Joy. Damien Jurado’s playing a handful of European shows in December, then kicks off a tour in January around the album’s release date (January 21 on Secretly Canadian). There’s no Portland date, but there is a Seattle show on January 17, so hopefully one will materialize around that time.