Music News - Louis Baker Releases powerful new single 'Black Crow'
03 May 2018 - 0 Comments
Good
things take time. Not only is that true in the case of New Zealand songwriter Louis
Baker, who we haven’t heard from since the single Addict a year ago, but also
of the music that Baker returns with, the soul-fuelled, introspective groover
that snaps and bumps with the piston fire of the rawest locked groove,
smoothed, warmed and informed by one of the finest voices in contemporary music
- Black Crow.
Written and produced in Sydney in six hours, Black Crow sounds like
alchemy freed from an artist’s DNA, rather than the chiseled result of time and
toil. Produced by Grammy-nominated Steve Rusch (Solange, Miguel, Ryan
Tedder), the song’s deceptively simple, deeply organic production initiates
a song about exorcising your demons, leaving the past behind and gaining wisdom
through experience.
Accompanying the
release is a stunning video from award winning director, Chris Graham (Scribe, Smashproof, Bic Runga, TrinityRoots)as he returns to making his first music video in three years.
‘I’ve been wanting to work with Louis Baker for years, so when I heard Black Crow, it really spoke to me. Being a song touching on the theme of mental health, a kaupapa I really care about, I wanted to make a video that did poetic justice to his song and mainly, provoke thought and dialogue for the audience about what the song and video are actually saying.” Says Graham.
Speaking about the inspiration behind Black Crow, Louis Baker says:
“The
idea of bathing one's hands in indigo came about through an old Japanese
proverb I read. I was fascinated with its idea- that a piece of fabric gets a
deeper and richer colour tone if you repeatedly dye it. The proverb has a
number of different meanings, but to me it is a metaphor about life, experience
and growing wise with age.”
As we may strive to grow wise with age, this is a record that doesn’t try to
sound more classic with every revolution, it just does so, effortlessly. It is
soul forged from a voice that gets richer with every year, aligned with writing
that gets more resonant with every listen. Black Crow’s implications of shaking
negativity off your shoulder, and hope are moon-shadowed by Baker’s
multi-instrumental finesse, pushing us from sentence to stanza, demanding that
his story be told.
It’s the story with
wide approval from Louis Baker’s fans who have given him 10 million Spotify
plays worldwide for songs including Rainbow (4.7 million) and Addict (over 850,000).
Other notable moments - Finalist APRA Silver Scrolls 2014 with Back On My Feet, Nominee APRA Silver
Scrolls 2017 with “Rainbow”, Radio Active most played song of the year 2017
with Gave It All Away.
Black Crow is the first offering off a new record Baker is due to release later
this year.
Louis heads to the UK and Europe for
a 16 date tour including a headline
show in London which sold out within weeks of the
announcement.
Black Crow is out now on all digital streaming platforms. Find it on Spotify,
iTunes/Apple Music, Bandcamp, and YouTube.
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