Two Wrongs

‘Two Wrongs’ is an allegorical analogue super8mm video, metaphorising the core elements of the song itself, which draws upon the interplay between movement and stillness, solitude and expansion and freedom and deprivation. Through the simultaneous layering of the subconscious realm, coupled with the natural landscape, the Two Wrongs short offers a passage into the rich tapestry of creation and destruction that lies at the heart of the balance of all things. 

 

Seven Years

‘Seven Years’ evokes the liminal exchange between oneself and the embers that burn within an entrancing fire, fusing fragmented memories and abstract visions, as they emerge, collide and transform into a dream-like sequence. The allegorical tapestry of ‘Seven Years’ is woven with motifs, representative of the physical and metaphysical periods of growth and change, offering us a passage into an artistic exploration of the ancient notion of the seven year cycle; of life itself and that of renewal. The film was shot across the breadth of Wales, on super 8 film.

 

Patience

Patience is a poem that manifests the velocity of movement; the movement of the body, the mind and the spirit. The song feels like a confession, a release and a realisation, with the words and music running parallel in dialogue to navigate a journey of transcendence between a pendulum of two states.The video for Patience was a collaboration between ourselves and brilliant film-maker Benjamin Wigley, created with ceremony and ritual during the transitioning of the summer solstice in the vast landscapes of North Wales. The film is a metamorphosis; a pilgrimage between the realms of the seen and the unseen. It draws upon the mysticism of ancient mythology and folklore and pays homage to the silent magic that exists within the immemorial wisdom of nature.

 

The Beach

“The Beach’ is a song that encompasses expansion. It is an interpretation of empty space; a walk upon a shoreline that stretches in between our waking consciousness and the liminal space of dreams.”

 

Live For The Road

"Live For The Road reconciles the power of freedom, the power of instincts, the power of fate and of decision. It speaks of life as a path; a dream, an open road. It recognizes the importance of the present moment and the realisation of the journey. To believe, is to radiate the will of truth and honesty, never to fade..."

 

Passing Me By

“The lyrics are carved from a part of the self, emulating ancient statues of rocks, shaped by the water of centuries; that of the foresight of dreams. They conjure the notion of absorbing a moment; its pace, its gravity, processing something wholly, before it shifts into a different contour, a different perspective, a different weight. The full interpretation of these lyrics as a language of the subconscious, so fleeting, so instinctive, will reveal itself to me over time. This is the beauty of improvisation, it is the poetry of the soul. The video imbues this concept, as a visual diary, moving through an ever-changing landscape over the course of a day, connecting the environment to the present, as we pass through both the surroundings from which this song grew, and a mental state of appreciation and observation.”

 

From The Fields We Once Knew

'From The Fields We Once Knew' is an improvisational piece of music paired with footage from the road trip that instigated the very existence of Samana. From the wild forests of Montenegro to the flower meadows of Serbia, the white mountains of Austria to the cobalt blue rivers of Slovenia, this composition of sound and vision is an exploration of the harmony between the freedom and possibilities of the open road.The life of man in every part has need of harmony and rhythm' - Plato.

 

Harvest

Harvest is the outcome of a social experiment, filmed over the duration of two hours, designed to explore and capture one of the fundamental concepts behind the album Ascension; the transitioning between one plain of consciousness to another. With dance being one the most primitive forms of human behaviour, we created a musical environment that shifted between five notions. Orchestrated with the intention of removing each individual from their bodies, from time and from their conscious state of awareness, to a state of catharsis and transcendence, we documented the language of movement that became the immediate dialogue of their subconscious, and in turn, witnessed the collective ascension of the group to pass into an altered state; a higher frequency and dimension of being and energy.

 

Beneath The Ice

Beneath The Ice is a psycho-emotional improvisation, a poem that in the act of its creation, navigates the subconscious through the intensity of loss, into a deep, eternal exhalation. This song is an ode to the moulting cycle of the poet, to the expansion of solitude, to the twilight that one lives inside, between the silence of stillness and movement.