A special newsletter by dEUS.be had a link to download a high-quality-version of the Slow-video. The video is a splitscreen from the band playing the song and footage from Luc Tuymans playing chess in a parc and the five angry looking girls dancing.

Here's what the band says about it in the newsletter:

The track Slow features the great Karin Dreijer Andersson from The Knife, her icy voice perfectly fitting the song. In the video 5 amazing young dancer girls represent Karin's part, resulting in a split screen video where you see the band playing and the girls dancing in our brand new Vantage Point studio in Antwerp.

The video will probably be available on the dEUS-Youtube Channel very soon.

If you didn't receive the newsletter, aim your browser to www.deus.be and subscribe it now!

The new dEUS.be has an easter egg. When you enter the site you see the studio. At the rightbottom corner there's a pair of shoes. When you click the shoe, you'll see a pic of 5 angry looking girls. It's probably those 5 girls who will be dancing in the Slow-video. The photo is by Charlie De Keersmaecker.

(thx to several people on ISR)

Although a Bad Timing-video was more or less announced, it never came out. Luckily there's a great amateur-video for Bad Timing on Youtube. In case you don't remember: there's also an amateur-video for Sun Ra.

Next sunday Canvas will broadcast Tom did with Nick Cave. There's a small article in Humo this week where Tom talks about the interview.

• he was not intimidated by the fact he was sitting in the same room as Cave.
• Tom says he's no longer impressed when he sees some of his idols. He talks to them or he tries to avoid them.
• The talked about autobiographic songwriting and the problem that every songwriter once comes to a point where he's bored to write about his life.

You can watch the interview next sunday at 20.55 hour. There's a trailer over here.

According to this website a 7"-version of Slow will be released on April 21st.

(thx to Bass Junkie on ISR)

The extended version of dEUS.be is online right now. Be sure to check the video-section for some footage of Tom in the studio working on one of the songs. That song was the opening track for the album at the time I heard it for the first time. It's called Oh Your God and according to the tracklist this song is no longer the first one on the album.

The site was designed by Piksel, who also did the site for Any Way The Wind Blows.

(source: Myspace)

The Architect is now available on the Belgian iTunes Music Store. The digital release contains no b-side (so far). Click here to buy The Architect.

If you're not living in Belgium you can switch from your local iTunes store to the Belgian IMTS by clicking the dropdown at the bottom of the store.

(thx to Igor)

The holy grail for dEUS-fans (a Jack & Johny-version of Zea) is now for sale on eBay. Other rare stuff available at this moment:

• Little Arithmetics - 7"
• Humo promo-cd
• Sun Ra - 10"
• Pocket Revolution - LP

Studio Brussel had a small interview with Michaël Borremans about the Vantage Point-artwork. One interesting thing that wasn't mentioned before: the stain right before the P of Vantage Point is an unintended coffee stain.

The Architect entered De Afrekening, the listeners' chart from Studio Brussel on #17. Click here to cast your votes for next weeks. The song also entered Arriba!, a chart by the Humo-journalists at 5.

As you read yesterday, the cover art for dEUS' forthcoming album Vantage Point is a drawing by Belgian artist Michaël Borremans. Called "Two Circles", the drawing is part of a series entitled "The Good Ingredients". It's a lucky coincidence then that The Good Ingredients, a new book collecting his recent and less recent drawings, will be published in May by Ludion. The author is Michael Amy, and you can pre-order the book (which contains English and Dutch text) here.

Like his paintings, Borremans’ drawings look like solidified fragments of an indeterminate and elusive time. They introduce the viewer to a sombre universe, devoid of bright colours, in which characters do strange things or carry out bizarre rituals with a certain resignation. His detailed décors involve us in complex, surrealist scenarios that are set in an ambiguous world.

• the cover of Vantage Point is a drawing by Belgian artist Michael Borremans
• the drawing is called Two circles and belongs to a set of drawings called The Good Ingredients
• The good ingredients shows a series of drawings which show hostages with their aggressors. Two circles, crosses and other geometrical figures appear on the ground, as the hostages lay down on the ground to obey the instructions of the hostage takers.
• Two circles shows a bunch op people lying on the ground of a parking lot in front of three armed men
• According to Borremans he normally refuses this kind of jobs, but he was honoured by the fact dEUS asked him
• He suggested the drawing after he listened to the album
• Borremans is one of Belgium's most succesful contemporary artists. Some of his works are shown in the MoMa (New York) or the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
• He says he's a dEUS-fan since the beginning

There's another band picture on the website of Melt Festival. It's probably from the same shoot as the photo I use in the header of the blog. The pics are by Steve Gullick. Gullick worked for a bunch of bands in the past like Depeche Mode, Mogwai, My Morning Jacket and Liars. An extensive list is available on his Myspace.

The lyrics for The Architect are in this week's Humo. Click here for a pdf-version.

Knack has also a contest running. If you mail a question for Tom Barman, you might win an autographed version of Vantage Point.