Kevin Bronson on February 5th, 2023

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Shana Cleveland is pranked by an apparition in the video for her delightfully spacey new single, “A Ghost.” It’s the second reveal from the La Luz co-founder’s new solo album, “Manzanita,” out March 10 via Hardly Art.

The video, directed by Vice Cooler, which co-stars Diana Diaz and Audrey Johnson, inspired by the TV program “Just for Laughs Gags,” a silent comedy/reality show.

Of the song — which, like the others on “Manzanita” Cleveland wrote while pregnant — she says, “I never really gave pregnancy and childbirth very much thought, and when I did become pregnant I was surprised by how much of a psychedelic experience it was. A subtitle for this album could be: ‘What to Expect When You Are Open to the Mysteries of the Universe.’ When I sat outside the house looking out across the field, the chemistry and shape of my body constantly changing, I understood that I was no different than the plants and animals around me.”

As for the video, she adds: “Depending on your comfort level for symbolism, it’s a story of someone coming back from the dead to haunt their BFF through cheap gags, OR a metaphor for pregnancy, OR a cautionary tale about colonialism.”

||| Watch: The video for “A Ghost”

||| Previously: “Faces in the Firelight”