Posts Tagged ‘New Zealand’
Kawakawa: Universe Shifting – Video Premiere
Paloma Faith collaborator Sam Taylor introduces the superb new video for first single Universe Shifting from debut album Island Species.
Written by Amelia Gregory
KawaKawa by Simon McLaren.
Kawakawa is Hidden Cameras and Paloma Faith collaborator Sam Taylor, and he has just launched his solo project. Sam was born on the island of Kawakawa in New Zealand, but moved to the UK as a baby, so the name has come to encapsulate a kind of dream-space for him, the perfect moniker for his soaring brand of dream-pop. The possibilities of this other world are reflected in new album Island Species, and a clever video for new single Universe Shifting, which Sam talks exclusively about below.
"Strangely but fittingly this video ended up being completely the opposite of what I'd imagined for the first single from the album. I'd imagined something simple, DIY, arty and with ME-NOT-IN-IT-AT-ALL. Fittingly, because the subject matter of the song is partly to do with accepting that you can't control the vast majority of what happens to you during the course of your life.… read more
