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Liz's album 'Haul Away!' is out now. Available to order below!

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An introduction from Liz:

I would like you to meet the video for the second single from Haul Away!

Tuesday, this is Rybka. It's basically a story about trying to find your place in the world. And the troubles that can lurk along the way. Just waiting to derail you. Rybka is a good hearted soul, down on his luck, an outsider looking in. A very small fish in a very big pond. Little Fish was going to be it's title. But i didn't like how it sounded in English, So i translated it into other languages to see if they could offer better. Rybka is Polish, and also Russian for 'little fish'. The idea with the instrumentation that buoys the song was to provide a slightly drunken, woozy, eastern european brass band sound. So it seemed to fit just right.

The only thing left was to ask permission from my musical friend David Rybka, of David Rybka and the Victorian Dad band (http://www.victoriandadband.com), to use his quite brilliant surname. Which he kindly agreed to. So thank you Dave. And all the other Rybkas out there.

My only specification with the video was "puppets". I really wanted puppets. I was introduced to the marvellous Isobel Smith through our mutual friends the Moulettes. We hatched plans amid the chaos of the Jake and Dinos Chapman exhibition in London. Isobel, and her pupeteers, joined forces with film maker Vicky Hart to craft this wonderful crow-cross-man puppet and the surreal and shadowy world he lives in.

I love the exposed mechanism puppetry. To see the effect of the manipulations upon the puppet. Just adds to the feeling of control, or lack of it....

I've finished rambling now. I hope you enjoy watching.

Thanks to all...


Artistic Director: Isobel Smith, Grist to the Mill (xgristtothemillx.com)
Puppeteers: Teele Uustani and Faith Brandon
Projected Animation by The Baron Gilvan (thebarongilvan.com)

Producer/Director: Vicky Hart, Hart In Media Ltd (www.hartinmedia.com)
Camera Operator & Editor: Simon Temple