Shipwrecked Video
20 Feb 2024
See the animated lyric video for Phil Thornalley’s Shipwrecked Love
Phil explains: “Whilst improvising on my old piano one day i found a cool repeating motif and, to me, it suggested the ebb and flow of a rising tide. Shit got sea faring dude!”
After a while i found the lyrics to suit the simple melody. The words that came to me felt impressionistic rather than literal and i soon had a song about disintegrating romance. But not a sea shanty. No fair isle sweaters or captain birds eye beards. More the spirit of Robinson Crusoe rather than rock and roll cruise ship.
With the help of Karl, a string bass player, we created this minimal orchestral arrangement mirroring the pulsing piano. Added some vocoder harmonies to the singer’s plaintive plea. And a touch of flute.
Then, drum roll please, my collaborator, ac (head at record company lojinx) created this wonderful lyric video with, perhaps, a french impressionist feel.
Cascading warm, natural colours and sweeping brush strokes. Like Van Gogh on vacation.
As source material he used a film i had made on a beach holiday in January. then he added my scrawled handwriting that somehow became a wannabe Cezanne’s delicate touch. Pretty remarkable eh?
And that’s the salty sea tale of how a sad song became this visual feast.
“and so begins, the journey’s end”
Disclaimer: no fish were battered in the making of this video.
The 3-track Shipwrecked Love EP is out now. Pre-order the album Holly Would now for release on March 29th.