Nadia Reid has revealed her new video for The Arrow and The Aim, taken from her forthcoming album Preservation. Shot in Mt Somers, just outside of Christchurch in New Zealand, starring Chris Parker and directed by Julian Vares in an abandoned house surrounded by stunning landscapes. “I guess there’s a lot left to the imagination with the video. I like that. The song is about reaching the very end of a relationship.” reveals Reid.
An ode to self-reflection and self-betterment, Preservation is the sound of Nadia showing her true colours, taking back a bit of power, and learning more about herself. Deeply intellectual but felt by all, it punches harder than before. Nadia’s beautifully warm vocals coolly wrap around feelings of turbulence and exude a gently improved confidence. “This record is about being OK with who I am in the world, and who I want to be. Learning to live with the fact I’m a person who operates differently to others,” admits Nadia. “I’m richer for the fact I am a musician. Without this way of being, I couldn’t write songs.”
Returning to the production skills of Ben Edwards in his Sitting Room studios in Christchurch and long term guitarist Sam Taylor, this time around everything is rubbed in more grit and channels Nadia’s deftly profound take on life and whilst we already knew it, her own realisation that it is music which drives her. “I remember recording the tracks, it was about 11 at night, and I felt almost transcendental, as if I was out of my body, singing these words to myself. That’s what these songs are; a confession to my future and past self.”
Nadia is currently touring the UK & Europe next month prior to the release of Preservation.
Nadia Reid UK & European Tour Dates
10/02: Brighton, Green Door Store, United Kingdom
11/02: York, The Fulford Arms, United Kingdom
12/02: Glasgow, Broadcast, United Kingdom
13/02: Manchester, The Deaf Institute, United Kingdom
14/02: Bristol, Crofter’s Rights, United Kingdom
15/02: London, Hoxton Hall, United Kingdom
17/02: Rotterdam, V11, Netherlands
18/02: Utrecht, TivoliVredenburg, Netherlands
19/02: Brussels, Botanique, Belgium
23/02: Berlin, Monarch, Germany
24/02: Landsberg, Stadttheater, Germany
25/02: Lugano, Studio Foce, Switzerland
26/02: Zuerich, Rote Fabrik, Switzerland
27/02: Muenchen, hauskonzerte.com, Germany
Preservation is released 3rd March 2017. Pre-Order it here: www.basinrock.co.uk