Video by Darian Donovan Thomas
This was created during the Pandemic. All shots were directed but taken on iPhones by both Gabriella and Gabriel, and I was given landscape footage from Gabriella's travels to include. A moving collage aesthetic made the most sense for assembling clips at inconsistent lighting/focus/sharpness/contrast points, and I'm pretty happy with the result.
About 'Bard of a Wasteland':
I spent November 2019 in my childhood home in the San Francisco Bay Area, wildfires raging like they never had during the years I spent growing up there. I remember pacing around my room one particularly smokey night in sadness, frustration, and anger, not knowing where my future lay or if I even had one. Furiously jotting down lyrics and recording melodic fragments on my voice memo app, Bard of a Wasteland began to take shape. As the only track with lyrics, I began to see it almost like a prologue or the album’s self-contained liner notes. It sets the scene for the rest of the album, whose remaining tracks are a wordless, raw emotional expression of the grief, loss, rage, fear, and hopelessness experienced as a result of climate change—as well as the joy, beauty, and wonder I have felt in the world’s last wild places.
- Gabriella Smith
I spent November 2019 in my childhood home in the San Francisco Bay Area, wildfires raging like they never had during the years I spent growing up there. I remember pacing around my room one particularly smokey night in sadness, frustration, and anger, not knowing where my future lay or if I even had one. Furiously jotting down lyrics and recording melodic fragments on my voice memo app, Bard of a Wasteland began to take shape. As the only track with lyrics, I began to see it almost like a prologue or the album’s self-contained liner notes. It sets the scene for the rest of the album, whose remaining tracks are a wordless, raw emotional expression of the grief, loss, rage, fear, and hopelessness experienced as a result of climate change—as well as the joy, beauty, and wonder I have felt in the world’s last wild places.
- Gabriella Smith
from 'Lost Coast' - the new album by Gabriella Smith and Gabriel Cabezas Out June 25, 2021 on Bedroom Community
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