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A washed out woman's silhouette and a few polygons are the meat in the official video for Alekesam's reverb-drenched RnB jam "It's Not You It's Here" — a favorite 'round these parts since we first wrote about it. Says director Jason Bergh,"Our hopes were that the viewer will feel the reflective spirit of the song as well as visually be brought into the world without over powering the senses with fast imagery or having the artist on screen." Watch it above.
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