Lyrical content aside, Weightlessness is an apt name for this new song from Lee Endres. From the opening notes, the guitar harmonics carry you skywards as the accompanying dreamlike video, filmed by Christopher Jackson on the Dorset coast, never lets you feel grounded. Instead, surreal images which include a moon-faced woman (played by Joanna McCormick who also made the masks), support Lee’s lyrical fantasy of moving temporarily to the moon. The song is part of an Ep called Air-conditioned.
Lee tells us “The EP, ‘Air-conditioned’ is drawn from material written over the second half of last year in Bulgaria; I had a woodhouse in the beautiful and isolated Iskar mountain range for three months. This song was based on an imagined idea of moving temporarily to the moon, what the earth would look like from a different standpoint, and what I’d miss most. I wanted the song to come across fairly light-hearted, so I structured the lyrics like an old Sunday school hymn. I’m not religious at all now, but I spent a lot of time during my stay thinking about my childhood. One of my most prevalent memories was being sent to Church on Sundays, and spending most of the day in my imagination – quite possibly why I began writing music soon after. Remembering that luxury of time and space was the backdrop for this collection of songs.”
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Credits:
Joanna McCormick is a contemporary fine artist whose work includes live art interaction – part of which is her Moon Moon Sing Sing artwork piece (the character who appears in the video). For more information visit www.joart.info
Video and editing Christopher Jackson – www.vitapoesia.co.uk