RAY WILSON: Neues Album "The Weight Of Man" in Videos
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Ray Wilson, ehemaliger Sänger von STILTSKIN und GENESIS, der bereits mehrere großartige Soloalben veröffentlicht hat, präsentiert sein aktuelles Album "The Weight Of Man" in Form von neun Videos! Ein melancholisches, facettenreiches Werk, das man unbedingt antesten sollte, was mit dieser visuellen Unterstützung sogar noch besser funktioniert. Hier sind die Videos in der Reihenfolge, in der die Lieder auch auf dem Album stehen, mit jeweils einer kleinen Erklärung des Künstlers:
'You Could Have Been Someone':
"The video is very arty and atmospheric. A little abstract, like the mood you feel abandoning yourself into the song. Everything is created to enhance the concept being someone intrinsically means being someone else, or different. When you see something here, in truth immediately become something else. Words too. And there's also a more poetic message: we are all someone and someone else too. Eveyone has a story, an heart, a past, a dream, a pain. When we see something or someone, it doesn't mean what we see it's what it is."
'Mother Earth:
"We call it 'destiny' or 'fate'. Truth is the hands constantly rolling the dice or mixing cards are us. Daily creating our present and future. There's more than a snapshot of the pandemic in this video. It's about the isolation of the unexpected present with a virus we've created. It's about the need of a rewind - to change that wicked past where we've betrayed the earth. And there's also a premonition for our next future: we speak of going back to normality, ignoring it's something different. Maybe a new normality, but nothing will be as we'll constantly pretend to see it again."
'We Knew The Truth Once':
"Everything started from the memory of me and my older brother coming back home from school. Feeling protected, non-conscius that truth everyone will look for an entire life, was there. 'Cause truth it's inside of us as we born, but growing up means losing that purity. The video shows a collection of moments where the truth was there, mixed with some positive suggestions to win back what we've soiled, to regain our freedom, to erase 'the cracks showed'. But we've to be quick, the clock is tiking, as you can discover at the end of the video."
'I, Like You':
"Every artist express a sort of personal solitude. Singing for the others is consider an expression of altruism. The truth is you always sing for yourself, hoping someone else feels heard from your solitude. It's like sharing the weight of the stone. And this create the magic of a common wellness. 'Be as a friend to me' I sing here: a message that in the video explodes in a triumph of light and shades, travelling everywhere, touching every being on earth. It's both the music - or me - trying to reach an audience, and the lonely listener finally found a friend able to feel the same. Two is better than being alone. Maybe it's not that much, but surely a good start"
'Amelia':
"We worked a lot editing this video. The track is surely one of the most powerful, different and debated by fans from the new album. That's why we felt it deserved a great and engaging video. Something people would totally love or hate it, with no middle ground, as strong things need to be. We came up with this misterious world of Amelia, enlighting the darker side of the song and lyrics. A kind of constant battle between night and day, fear and hope, good and bad. With that feeling, even the scary and dark side of the scenes, had something fascinating you stay there watching and attracted by."
'The Last Laugh':
"Gossip, fake news, bad politicians, corruption, social network making us unsocial, nation going to isolation rather than stay united, tv promises broken, the decadence of what we are presented as a show with pay to watch. This video is a sort of the best of our worse. As a man promises to save all the men, there's a girl acting the same, and stealing power. And viceversa. The ordinary ugliness of the few pretending to be believed by everyone, only to conquest another chair. But we always forget we have a voice and a brain to change things. 'Them' is because of 'us'."
'Almost Famous':
"An ancient story. A polaroid of our times. Maybe a simple dream in a girl's mind, never happened in real world as a story. The video is all of this: different girls which are the same person, in different times, in different places. All connected to the need of find a way to touch the dream, to be loved, to be someone for someone else. And mostly, to always be what you are. You can be everything you want if you put your soul into life. The focus is you. What's around, it's only a backdrop. The way the video ends, perfectly explains this".
'Symptomatic':
"It's probably the most performed song out of the new ones 'til now. And one from the more acoustic bunch you hear throught the second half of the new album. Lyrics are a strong reference to this moment of time. Not a case we chose to present it with this live version, filmed last August in Mönchengladbach, in this new - strange - way of perfoming, with social distancing and so on. Stuff that challenge you on stage very much. But as I sing, 'determination fuses with new ideas': so there I am, performing, in 'these wasted days', focused on 'my need to play again'."
Das Album ist bereits erschienen.
- Quelle:
- Gordeon
- Redakteur:
- Frank Jaeger
- Tags:
- ray wilson the weight of man
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