Premiere: Nico Cartosio Unveils Music Video for 'Christmas on the Moon'
Gorgeous neo-romantic music with soul.
Cartosio followed with "Cocaine March," a biting deconstruction of the contemporary world's psychic devastation, along with its almost imperceptible consequences.
With "Christmas on the Moon," Cartosio scrutinizes the breach between the starry-eyed idea of Christmas and the stark reality of the holiday for many.
Cartosio says, "Christmas is such a joyous time. But haven't you ever happened to feel unbearably sad on this night? I believe those who are alone this Christmas would understand me."
"Christmas on the Moon" rides a graceful piano, followed by a lush violin, sadly beautiful. The music swells upon glowing strings, climaxes, and then subsides.
The video, directed by Lado Kvataniya, presents the moving story of a young girl, who stands outside in the cold as she watches another young girl and her father chose a Christmas gift. Expressing her jealousy, anger, and loneliness, the girl scrawls an expletive on the window and then goes home – to a gang of criminals. The girl and the gang plan a daring rip-off from a Mafia boss. The girl arrives at a nightclub with a huge bear stuffed with drugs. When the Mafia crew is occupied with the bear, she opens the door for her gang.
A violent gun fight occurs, followed by a suspenseful chase as the girl, the bear, and two of her gang attempt escape via a draw bridge. The two gang members die, as the girl narrowly survives. While holing up, she discovers she's been shot. Later, she awakens in a hospital room with the bear, who gives her the bullet that almost killed her. The girl and the bear leave the room to find a hospital populated by bears.
Set against the sublime tenderness of the music, the visceral violence, greed, and death project a sense of tarnish across the panorama, an inarticulate cry of desolation when peace, love, and goodwill should reign. The juxtaposition hits home like a hammer.
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Randy Radic is a Left Coast author and writer. Author of numerous true crime books written under the pen-name of John Lee Brook. Former music contributor at Huff Post.
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