This summer ceo aka Eric Berglund told Pitchfork a bit about his quest for inner stillness vis a vis his love for singing and smacking around little green balls:
i want to be able to be at peace in every situation, nomatter where i am or what i do - waking up on a tuesday morning instockholm,looking out over the andes, sittingkidnapped in a basement in berlin,enjoying champagne on a terrace in monaco.thosesituations could just be like different clothes or whateversuperficial.i know it is possible. you just have to focus on what isreallyhappening, in your body or outside, and not what your mind issayingabout it. i can be watering all my plants and not do anythingelse, justlooking at and listening to the water, seeing the plants forreal, howthey absorb the water. or when i play tennis and get so intoit that yourise above the mind. that's what i love about sports, youjust play,the mind is gone for a while, you go beyond the illusions oftime andspace and just do. it's like singing or...whatever really.it's justeasier doing it without practice in some situations.
So here Eric is in the Marcus Soderlund-directed video for his buoyant White Magic jammer "Illuminata," making like a tennis-addled Robyn, playing on his own: one Berglund in white (magic) attire pitted against the black swan version of himself on the far court. Which ties into "ris(ing) above the mind," really. It's like David Foster Wallace always said, Infinite Jest or Federer-wise: you're always just playing yourself, really.
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White Magic is one of the year's finer albums, is out via Modular and Sincerely Yours.
