Kevin Bronson on March 1st, 2017

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Paris-born, L.A.-based enchantress Naomi Greene seems to float between worlds as deftly as she switches between harp and electric guitar. Her mystical indie-pop at once acknowledges the constraints of the corporeal while celebrating other possibilities, some of which might defy explanation. In the tender, cherubic swirl of her single “No Skin” Greene found “an epiphany about the power of vulnerability,” she says. “What does it mean to be open? What does it mean to shed your shell? Can we be weightless? How do we stay true to our authentic selves?”

The video for song is a testament to synchronicity. It was filmed in New Orleans, where Greene was working on her friend Meryl Murman’s movie “Ways of Forgetting.” With her friend’s help, performance artist and choreographer Tarren Johnson and artists from the troupe FLOCK joined in to create a netherworld of imagery, shot mostly at the Mudlark Public Theatre, run by puppeteer Pandora Gastelum. “We wanted to give a sense of fleeting realities,” Greene says, “as dreams have when they flow in and out of each other, to portray the introspective search of the lyrics in a multi-perspective collage.”

Somewhere in Greene’s episodic spasms of symbolism, you’ll find a familiar reality.

||| Watch: The video for “No Skin”

||| Also: Stream the song

||| Live: Naomi Greene celebrates the vinyl release of “No Skin” with a show March 8 at the Bootleg Theater, joined by Danke and Jeff Kwong. Tickets.