»Water of Life« | Jens Strüver & Tim Ra

The video clip for »Wasser des Lebens« (Water of Life), the final track of the album »Kosmische Kuriere« (Cosmic Couriers), translates its vision into a cinematic narrative. New York has sunk. The Statue of Liberty is decapitated. Underwater, the last Palantir servers flicker—control without purpose, without future. Jens Strüver and Tim Ra, wearing tailored suits, jump from a golden airship into the Atlantic. What begins as a postmodern homage to 1960s Bond films evolves into a poetic meditation on friendship, transience, and hope.

Your mission is as absurd as it is inescapable: you are to recover a bottle of champagne from the legendary New York Four Seasons Restaurant and a vinyl record from a Jamaican record store on Fifth Avenue—your own. One of only seven copies worldwide.

While human systems collapse, life continues on its path undeterred. Corals grow over the ruins, manta rays glide through the sunken city. For cosmos and life are ultimately one. In the end, an improvised raft drifts across the open Atlantic. Two drenched men put the record on the turntable, uncork the champagne, and listen.

»What a record.« — »One of our finest.«

Seven copies, analog and irreplaceable: The limited edition is not a marketing tool, but an integral part of the work. The vinyl record becomes a seed pod—an artifact small enough to outlast the catastrophe and dense enough to regenerate an entire world from it. Even after the end, something remains: the water of life.

Music video | 4:32 | 2026 | Jens Strüver & Tim Ra

For the limited vinyl edition