Echo Arcadia : Indie

Focusing on the expansive journey of a traveling 30-something female creative, a solo singer-songwriter musician who has been working the circuit for a number of years, while juggling all other aspects of her life. It’s a character tale of her own repression and diminishing creativity at a point in her life where responsibility is ever bearing, in a world where its frowned upon to have a form of expression in the real or cyber world/s. Taking subtle hints from the tale in which the song is titled, it takes a social realist route while delving into more fantastical and surreal elements as a snapshot into this part of her life.

The main journey of the character is to find some solace in her hectic world and in not being able to find it in her creative endeavors, where will she? Exploring themes of following your dreams, sexual repression and succeeding over all odds. The opening on the dark and dingy venue for the evening, she is welcomed to the stage by her stage name “Cinderella’. This venue feels like a home to her, until she peels away the layers; the dwindling audience full of old drunkards and young disinterested upstarts. There is a perverse nature to the city and to her, it is slightly intoxicating; more so when she is invited to a party. What consists of a long queue in a red-lit hallway to nothing but a closed door, inside host to a scene of indulgent lust. Her whole sense of aspiration is skewed; the fantasy so much more desirable than the actual. However, the main tread of the video is her time in the car, traveling along dark, dimly lit roads, enveloped in darkness, her mind wanders and she is privy to some strange sights. Haunted by these thoughts in the physical realm in the manifestation of a rabbit-man figure, that seemingly stalks her through her day to day life.