Singer/songwriter, percussionist and guitar Ines Brodbeck is a mainstay of the Swiss music scene, best known for being the creative mastermind and frontperson of the recording project INEZONA. Her third album, 2017’s Gabriel Sullivan-produced Now featured contributions from musicians, who have worked with Calexico, Bob Dylan, Neko Case, and Giant Sand, and saw her drawing from her Latin American roots.

Brodbeck found a creative soulmate in Sullivan, and Now also became the start of a fruitful and ongoing collaboration Back in 2019, Sullivan was in Switzerland and the pair went to Basel-based One Drop Studio with the members of INEZONA — Fabian Gisler (bass, synths) and Eric Gut (drums) — to work on material that Brodbeck had brewing for some time. The end result, the Sullivan, Brodbeck and Gut-produced Heartbeat seems the Swiss-based outfit crafting harmonically and rhythmically complex material that reportedly move like a constantly flowing stream.

“Stardust,” Heartbeat‘s latest single is a Tarantino film-meets-Spaghetti Western-meets-David Lynch film-like song built around an atmospheric arrangement of shimmering pedal steel, strummed guitar, and a steady groove paired with Brodbeck’s gorgeous, yearning delivery. Thematically, “Stardust” is a homage to the power, beauty and immensity of our planet and the universe we inhabit. The song was originally conceived for a dance piece for dancer and choreographer with Brodbeck performing it solo.

Directed and shot in a gorgeous, cinematic black and white by Pascal Dick in Kandern, Germany, the video features Brodbeck (vocals, guitar) and a backing band of Gut (drums), Daniel Somaroo (bass) and Nick Nobody (guitar). A gorgeous black horse plays a major role in the video: We’re first introduced to Brodbeck riding the horse to her bandmates — and as the video proceeds, we see the band with the horse.