We’re pleased to bring you the premiere of Nothingness’ new music video for their song “Sun of Mine” (watch it below).
“Sun of Mine” will be available for immediate download with all pre-orders of Nothingness’ debut album, Being, available from Big Smoke’s Bandcamp page. Pre-orders will also include the previously released “Annie’s Song,” with the album due for digital release on January 20th, 2017. Save 25% and pre-order the album now.
Nothingness vocalist/guitarist Bill Young comments on the video:
“I shot the footage of this video during August of 2015. With my partner Annie driving us along the Crow’s Nest Highway in the central far south of BC just west of Rock Creek, a small town that had just battled a forest fire for its life. The land was scorched and smouldering. The light of the air was immensely amber/rose from the smoke of thousands of acres of fires through the Pacific Northwest. This acted as a natural light filter for this otherwise unaffected video.”
At the end of 2014 Nothingness singer/guitarist Bill Young and his partner, Annie, found themselves craving a simpler existence and decided to leave their Vancouver home in favour of British Columbia’s rural Pender Island. With fewer stressors and a slower lifestyle, the pair embraced two years of introspection and artistic creation in their respective mediums. Nothingness’s debut full length, Being, is the culmination of those efforts.
Featuring long time friends and frequent collaborators Caton Diab (C. Diab), Justin Devries (Summering, Gamelan Bike Bike), and Paul Stewart (Summering), Nothingness have created an album that plumbs the abyss of despair and the warming light of the sublime, and the video for second single, Sun Of Mine, exemplifies this dynamic.
The track, which fuses elements of post-rock and drone, is accompanied by images of a burnt hillside forest at sunset, filmed by Young on a drive through the West Kootenays in south-central BC two summers ago. The beauty lies in the details of both the song and its slow building visual accompaniment, which has a natural amber toned light filter caused by the sunlight passing through the haze of forest fire smoke.
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