Altered Zones

Not Not Fun's bewitching top girl Maria Minerva is back with a video for "Once Upon," an instrumental track from her recent full-length, Cabaret Cixous. The self-directed video consists exclusively of grainy footage of Minerva's former London haunts, with cars and apartments sweeping past her periphery.

Says Maria Minerva:

"Well, "Once Upon" is one of the two instrumental tracks on my album. Instrumentals are something that people probably don't associate me with because I always sing, but I might go more in that direction. Who knows? And the video is shot with a camcorder on the way from my old house in Stoke Newington/East London to New Cross/South London, where my uni is. First I'm taking the bus and then the train obviously. The video will always remind me of my sad, early days in London. This city really got the best of me but also there's this urban poetry to it, and I guess together with the track title, it tells some kind of story..." --Jasmine Zhu, Altered Zones

Grab Cabaret Cixous, available on CD and LP from Not Not Fun