{"id":41014,"date":"2020-01-29T15:23:37","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T14:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/klein-shares-claim-it-music-video-extract-from-debut-album\/"},"modified":"2021-09-15T19:01:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T17:01:33","slug":"klein-claim-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/klein-claim-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Klein shares &#8216;Claim It&#8217; music video extract from debut album"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\"><iframe class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JL5R6CFBWsM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/h4>\n<h4>Nigerian-born British artist Klein unveils the disturbing video clip of &#8220;Claim It&#8221; from her self-produced album <em>Lifetime<\/em>.<\/h4>\n<p>South London&nbsp;based musician Klein is an artist who&#8217;s&nbsp;avant-garde&nbsp;vision has seen her&nbsp;quickly become one of the UK&#8217;s most intriguing and unpinnable producers and performers. Using notoriously erratic audio editing software Audacity as a canvas for catch-up, pitch-shifted and contorted cellphone recordings of her own voice, piano, quotidian sounds, and samples from childhood Nigerian B movies, Klein&#8217;s playfully brooding assemblages seem to create under their maximalist weight, their own construction made brazenly audible.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Nicolai Niermann, one of the most impressive&nbsp;music video directors in recent years (Kendrick Lamar&#8217;s &#8220;Element&#8221;,&nbsp;Blood Orange&#8217;s &#8220;Charcoal Baby&#8221; or Kelsey Lu&#8217;s &#8220;Foreign Car&#8221;) and Klein herself,&nbsp; &#8220;Claim It&#8221; is a troubling experience.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place during&nbsp;a birthday party, the visual of the track slides little by little towards a pure universe of abstraction, where the guests see their faces undergoing worrying mutations. Faithful to the aesthetics developed over the last few years by the London based artist, &#8220;Claim It&#8221; immerses the spectator in a disconcerting sensory experience. &#8220;Claim It&#8221; can be found on Klein&#8217;s latest album, produced entirely by her and entitled <em>Lifetime<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35873\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/e6cb2fee-klein-claim-it-vid-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/e6cb2fee-klein-claim-it-vid-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/e6cb2fee-klein-claim-it-vid-1-759x428.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/e6cb2fee-klein-claim-it-vid-1-661x373.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/e6cb2fee-klein-claim-it-vid-1-465x262.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/e6cb2fee-klein-claim-it-vid-1-375x212.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35877\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2e45e9bc-klein-claim-it-vid-2.jpg\" alt=\"Klein Claim It Vid 2\" width=\"1000\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2e45e9bc-klein-claim-it-vid-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2e45e9bc-klein-claim-it-vid-2-759x430.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2e45e9bc-klein-claim-it-vid-2-661x374.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2e45e9bc-klein-claim-it-vid-2-465x263.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2e45e9bc-klein-claim-it-vid-2-375x212.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian-born British artist Klein unveils the disturbing video clip of &#8220;Claim It&#8221; from her self-produced album Lifetime. South London&nbsp;based musician Klein is an artist who&#8217;s&nbsp;avant-garde&nbsp;vision has seen her&nbsp;quickly become one of the UK&#8217;s most intriguing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":35944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944,9408],"tags":[5136,5187,40826,5997],"location":[7844],"yst_prominent_words":[8576,8403,11104,9172,8995,9174,8618,12684,28232,8402,8435,8506,8501,8400,8858,9171],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41014"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41014"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}