C'è la Villa Aldini di Bologna - set principale del Salò pasoliniano - a fare da location al video di Sky Burial While Alive, tratto dall'album Kanda Teenage Honey, registrato e autoprodotto da Nick Hudson a Tbilisi (Georgia) con l'intervento di molti musicisti locali. E c'è la viva voce di Alfreda Benge ad elencare all'inizio del brano i nomi di oligarchi e dittatori - tra cui Ceauçescu, Mussolini, Nerone, Pinochet, Stalin, Assad, Pol Pot e Hirohito - associati in modo imperituro ai pianeti del sistema solare: "The souls of dictators when they die are appointed to planets, so impressed is the creator with their unbending will of granite".
"Sky Burial While Alive takes its imagery from a scene in my novel Inheritance - whereby an oligarch, upon finding his power challenged and his assets diminished, retreats to a Swiss bank vault only to have seven griffon vultures perform a sky burial upon him, depositing his remains in Lake Geneva - it’s a commentary on the imbalance of power and the thin-skinned nature of those who fetishize and seek to consolidate it at any cost… I shot some of this at the Bologna villa used by Pier Paolo Pasolini in his film Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma - fittingly, given the song is about dictatorships and oligarchy. The prologue is recited by very special guest Alfreda Benge, collaborative partner and wife of Robert Wyatt."
E a proposito della sua amicizia con Wyatt, e della scelta di Alfie per il recitato, scrive ancora Hudson: "I first met Robert shortly after he’d recorded with Björk in 2004. We met in a record shop and I asked if the synth he’d used on Cuckooland was the Yamaha CS1X - it was - I recognized it as I owned one too - and so an hour and a small bottle of vodka later we’d conversed widely and enthusiastically about all manner of esoteric things. Spool forward 17 years and we reconnect in lockdown, with Robert saying lovely things about The Quiet Earth and offering insightful, encouraging critique on a script I’m yet to film. Alfie and I rave a lot on Twitter, sharing a similar political outlook. When I needed a voice to recite a certain monologue on the new record, for a song that narrates an oligarch’s suicide in Geneva, it was hers that sprang to mind: her delivery is brilliant and chilling. Two examples of humanity at its exceptional goodness."