MOTHER EARTH - Sam Redmore ft. Abdominal
'Mother Earth' is a collaboration with rapper Abdominal and an impossible to ignore slice of planet–conscious, NOLA flavoured orchestral hip hop that uses the music and lyrics to forcibly illustrate the message in the song.
Sam explains “I knew before starting work on Mother Earth that I wanted to make a track that built in tempo throughout. The climate emergency is something that I have become increasingly concerned about in recent times, and the idea from the beginning was that the increasing tempo would represent soaring temperatures, sea level rises and a surge in the frequency of natural disasters. My aim was to create something that ended almost uncomfortably fast, giving the impression it was spiralling out of control”.
Sam explains “I knew before starting work on Mother Earth that I wanted to make a track that built in tempo throughout. The climate emergency is something that I have become increasingly concerned about in recent times, and the idea from the beginning was that the increasing tempo would represent soaring temperatures, sea level rises and a surge in the frequency of natural disasters. My aim was to create something that ended almost uncomfortably fast, giving the impression it was spiralling out of control”.
I approached the visuals with this in mind, representing an Earth that was in peril, chaos and capturing the feel of the music track. This particular piece of work is slightly different to the other single releases, as a track it stands apart, so it does visually. I had a few rounds in developing this, first with a body, then realised it worked much better as a stand alone head(who said the Earth had a body!)...which took it to the final stage.