Following Smile Today, Manchester jazz pianist and producer Matt Wilde returns with another intimate performance film directed by James Killeen.The video for Everyday Words - taken from Wilde’s forthcoming LP Find A Way - was shot inside the historic Orangery at Tatton Park, placing Wilde's stripped-back musical palette - upright piano, trumpet and intricately programmed beats - in a space built for growth and light.James Killeen and DoP Matt Snow embrace the building’s glasshouse architecture, using shifting daylight and reflections to echo the track’s central theme: how words, or their absence, shape our connections in constant motion.Resisting excess staging, the visuals highlight the improvisatory spark that runs through his work - an artist carving new space between jazz, hip hop, and electronic production.

Prepare to be conflicted - and knocked sideways - by Niall Trask's remarkable video for Alabaster Deplume, where surreal black comedy meets realistic heartbreaking drama.The video for the jazz musician, composer, poet and activist's song Invincibility is an audacious blurring of filmmaking conventions, where a powerful narrative about a sombre event involving a seriously injured dog, is subverted by the bizarre, dreamlike device of having the dog's head replaced by Alabaster Deplume's. He performs the song that echoes the sorrow and trauma of a mother and daughter as rush their beloved pet to the vet, and endure the inevitable end. That's sensitively but unflinchingly dramatised by Trask - while there are also flashbacks to happier times, with shots of Alabaster (aka Angus Fairbairn) as the erstwhile carefree dog. Which is both funny and also underlines the heartbreak, the onset of grief.It's audacious storytelling - and so sad it could justify a mental health warning. Particularly for dog lovers."Alabaster was one of the first people I met when I moved down to London, a collaboration has been a longtime coming," says Trask. "He gave me total freedom to write on one of three tracks and I returned his trust by choosing to euthanise him to the score of Invincibility."On a personal level, there has been a fair share of tragedy in recent years and finding the absurdity/humour in it all, is always my go-to remedy. The treatment was ambitious and I’m grateful to everyone who helped bring this to life. Or put it to sleep should I say."

Dutch director Ruben Van Leer brings an ancient Armenian folktale Hazaran Blbul (or The Bird of a Thousand Voices) to life in spectacular fashion to accompany Armenian jazz pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan's intense jazz-prog instrumental The Quest Begins.In an ancient Armenian kingdom, a kindly old king mourns the death of a child, before we discover it was the result of his own folly. His grief leads him to plead for the discovery of the mythical Bird Of A Thousand Voices - to restore harmony to the kingdom. The challenge is accepted by his 'weakest son', provoked by his father's lack of faith in him, leading him to undertake a perilous journey.Shot in stunning Armenian locations - including the 10th century Amberd Fortress, on the slopes of Mount Aragats - with beautiful cinematography by Ezra Reverda, both the scale and the level of craft in the visuals suggest a big budget production - or one that has been a long-term project for those involved.In fact, the music video it is part of a longer longer theatrical film release, directed and co-written by Van Leer, based upon the Hazaran Blbul folktale, with an extended soundtrack by Hamasyan. It's certainly a terrific taster for the longer film, and a wonderful promo for Hamasyan's music in its own right. You can find out more on Ruben Van Leer and Tigran Hamasyan's collaboration on the project here.