Welcome back to The Little Island🏝️, my clod of dirt in an imaginary ocean where I go to write songs, draw, and dream up wacky tales for my kids’ bedtime stories. Today, I’m sharing a music video that features a favorite track from my upcoming EP.
The postmodern novel Invisible Cities, by Italian writer Italo Calvino, is one of only a handful of fictional works that I find myself still thinking about years after my first reading.
My new improvisational jazz-ambient EP Invisible Shores, releasing March 4, draws inspiration from Italo Calvino's novel to imagine invisible shores at four sets of latitude and longitude coordinates.
Each set of coordinates serves as a track title.
Were you to travel by boat or plane to each location, you might find an empty expanse of ocean… Or you might find the invisible shores of uncharted, unexplored, and untainted islands—achingly lonely but also pulsing with life that still bears the clay-caked fingerprints of God.
Above is the music video for "-28.159158, 53.024166", perhaps my favorite track on Invisible Shores. (It’s also available on YouTube.)
I loosely painted the elements of the video—ocean waves, sky, island vegetation—with watercolors, scanned them to my computer, and then arranged and added movement to them in Motion and Final Cut.
It would mean the world to me if you would give Invisible Shores a listen and download/stream it when it hits Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, and other music platforms next week.
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