This past July, YTI⅃AƎЯ stretched and made way to Resuscitate!, a live Bill Callahan record taped at Chicago’s Thalia Hall in March 2023 with the might of Matt Kinsey on guitar, Dustin Laurenzi on alto sax, and Jim White on the kit. Today, we’ve got sights on “Coyotes” with a new visualizer filmed by Bill!

Bill — who’s just landed for a multi-day solo residency in the UK and Europe, kicking off tomorrow — shot this footage while flying, in a plane, on tour from somewhere to somewhere. As Bill reflects on both the song and the sky:

“We take that airplane view for granted. Everyone choosing to watch a Nora Ephron movie instead. But at the same time I think, what does this mean? I’m not really supposed to be here. This isn’t supposed to be a human objective point. We’re supposed to be on mountains or oceans or valleys, etc but not suspended on nothing. Thoughts of heaven but heaven doesn’t have jets. Maybe that’s why most people choose the movie instead. It’s too confusing. I was looking for footage that was neither here nor there. Not of the earth or the cosmos. Somewhere between, which I think a lot of life hangs in places like that. So it fits the song’s themes of eternity, love, reincarnation and wildness brushing against domesticity. The video ends back on earth with steam from a venting dryer seeming to create the same nether world found in the skies.”

—Bill Callahan

Bill Callahan’s solo residency runs through France, Belgium, Ireland, the UK and Poland, beginning September 17 at Café de la Danse in Paris (with support from Jerry David DeCicca). Resuscitate! is out now on 2xLP, CD, and digital platforms.

2024 UK/European Solo Residencies

*Solo residency, support by Jerry David DeCicca

Sept. 17 – Paris, France @ Café de la Danse *

Sept. 18 – Paris, France @ Café de la Danse *

Sept. 20 – Brussels, Belgium @ KVS Bol *

Sept. 21 – Brussels, Belgium @ KVS Bol *

Sept. 23 – Dublin, Ireland @ Button Factory *

Sept. 24 – Dublin, Ireland @ Button Factory *

Sept. 26 – Manchester, UK @ New Century *

Sept. 27 – London, UK @ ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts *

Sept. 28 – London, UK @ ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts *

Sept. 29 – London, UK @ ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts *

Sept. 30 – London, UK @ ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts *

Oct. 3 – Krakow, Poland @ Unsound Festival @ Kino Kijów (solo)

2024 US Performances

Oct. 24-27 – Marfa, TX @ Flying Island Festival

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