“There is always something gratifying about seeing an artist’s home turf featured in their artwork,” says director Toby Dye of his music video-cum-documentary for British artist Elliott Power’s “Murmur,” released in collaboration with James Lavelle’s iconic label Mo’ Wax, which relaunches in conjunction with the release. Setting up the genre-blurring label when he was just 18 years old, Lavelle is renowned for fusing a plethora of disparate interests and maverick collaborators over the years, including Patti Smith, David Bowie and Yoko Ono.

“When I heard ‘Murmur’ with its undertones of hazy noir, I knew that nocturnal London, in all its beauty and brutality, was the perfect setting for the video,” recalls award-winning filmmaker Dye, who has previously made videos for Massive Attack and UNKLE. Inspired by Martin Scorsese’s classic Taxi Driver and an array of British music videos from the 1990s, the team captured more than 25 hours of documentary footage on London’s streets. “Almost all of what you see of London in the video was shot for real, as we spent several hot summer nights simply cruising around shooting out of the car, not knowing what we might find.” 

The result is a true-to-life portrait of London under cover of dark including everything from sex workers to the homeless, crystalizing the image of the capital at night.