Bruno Major - Columbo

Columbo

Bruno Major’s third album Columbo is a collection of songs written in the years after a dramatic car crash. He reflects on his existence as a performer, relationships old and new, and time itself.

Initial concepts were based on the mechanical and decorative beauty of old clocks. Using a photo taken immediately after the crash as starting point, something wrecked and melancholic is broken down and reformed into a new artwork. Much like with songwriting, memories of the event are reformed in new and abstract iterations.

After splitting the photo by colour and depth into twelve parts (one for each song on the album), the layers were laser cut from a range of metals and plastics, then stacked together to recreate the orginal image. The stark scene of a crashed car is then reimagined, the layers shuffled into one of infinite possible configurations; a new moment of reflection. Individual pieces were used for single releases and also animated, representing this abstract clockwork concept in each of the songs’ lyric videos.

Rob Shuttleworth

Columbo