Following the release last month of his new album Two Saviors via Keeled Scales, Buck Meek (Big Thief) has today presented a video for one of its tracks, ‘Halo Light‘. It’s a tender offering, delivered with warm vocals and made all the more enchanting by the soft lighting from the window…
The video, shot and directed by Riley Engemoen and edited by Alex Winker, was filmed during the recording sessions for Two Saviors in the New Orleans Victorian house called Wonderland where the album was laid to tape. It’s the same take of the song as appears on the record and features Adam Brisbin (guitar), Austin Vaughn (drums), and Mat Davidson (pedal steel/bass).
“I wrote Halo Light in two seasons – first as a healing process to accept loss as the seed of new growth – then, by a long string of coincidences, I ended up at Joni Mitchell’s home on New Year’s Eve, at a party filled with her old friends, all standing around the piano singing,” says Buck. “She held court in the centre of the room in an easy chair, like an ascended master, speaking with people one at a time with absolute presence. I remember her eyes being purple. I spoke with her briefly at the end of the party, and was struck so deeply by how the ephemerality of the human body and soul can manifest a collection of work for others to reflect upon and live through for generations to come, expanding outward. I wrote the chorus and finished the song that night when I returned home.”
To buy Two Saviors, head here: https://keeledscales.com/store/twosaviors