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DC Fontana return with a brand new short film 'Pentagram Man' to promote the group's eagerly-anticipated fresh record of the same name.

The group, together with actors Richard Taylor, Louise Fulwell & Mark Brindley, shot the eight-minute-long video at varoius English locations including Tamworth Castle, The Custard Factory in Digbeth, Birmingham and in rural Leicestershire.

The film features excerpts from two of the six tracks on the 'Pentagram Man EP' including the title track and 'Sighed DC.'

Directed by Martin Copland-Gray and shot by Dan Evans of Expressive Arts Productions, the film combines a typically surreal DC Fontana storyline together with music video sensibilities.

Utilising beautiful locations such as Tamworth's 11th century Norman castle and Birmingham's arts quarter, the Custard Factory and the wonderful rural location at Orton-on-the-Hill in Leicestershire, 'Pentagram Man' is another quirky film to illustrate the group's genre-busting music.

Richard Taylor plays the lead role of the 'Pentagram Man', marking his second appearance in a DC Fontana video (he also appeared in the group's much-respected 'Six Against Eight' mini-movie filmed in Portmeirion, Wales) while Louise Fulwell is the mysterious white lady of the fields and Mark 'DeHavilland' Brindley appears as the castle door-keeper.

'Pentagram Man' is an allegorical song about people's supreme ability to fool themselves and was written by founding DC member Mark Mortimer whereas 'Sighed DC' is an eight-minute-long ambient trip-athon penned by Donald Ross Skinner with Mortimer.

'Pentagram Man' is sung by Salford-based singer Louise Turner, who joined the band in 2012 after singing with Elbow on their Mercury Prize winning album 'The Seldom Seen Kid.'

'Sighed DC' features Turner singing lead vocals together with the group's former vocalist Karla Milton and musically is a delightfully off-kilter three-part trip with wah-wah guitars, orchestral strings, autoharp, Mellotrons and dreamy vocals all combining to great cinematic effect.

The spoken section is a Galician magick spell used when preparing the Queimada punch drink.....

The video is one in a series of three films created by the group to promote the 'Pentagram Man EP'; the other two being 'What Would It Take?' & 'DevilAngel."

The EP itself features six tunes:

01: Pentagram Man (Mortimer)
02: DevilAngel (Mortimer)
03: What Would It Take? (Russell)
04: Satisfied (Part One) (Riley)
05: Sighed DC (Skinner/Mortimer)
06: *special track TBC*

The record is produced by long time Julian Cope producer / guitarist Donald Ross Skinner and is released on DCTone Records as a CD and mp3 downloads and also by Italian based Teen Sound Records (part of Misty Lane) as a vinyl.

Buy the record from www.dcfontana.com/shop