{"id":19355,"date":"2021-09-14T16:12:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=19355"},"modified":"2021-09-14T16:12:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T20:12:38","slug":"marissa-nadler-releases-single-video-if-i-could-breathe-underwater-from-new-album-the-path-of-the-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=19355","title":{"rendered":"Marissa Nadler Releases Single\/Video \u201cIf I Could Breathe Underwater\u201d From New Album The Path of the Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York singer\/songwriter Marissa Nadler<\/strong> will be releasing her 10th album, The Path of Clouds<\/strong>, on October 29th, 2021.\u00a0 When I first heard Marissa’s 2014 release July<\/strong>, I knew I was hearing something really special. It’s not an easy thing to put a label on the the songs of Marissa Nadler.\u00a0 If I had to describe them with words, I would have to say that they are powerful pieces of music that are melancholy, gothic, psychedelic, folksy, dreamy, spacey, and sometimes unsettling.\u00a0 With a voice that is as delicate as a flower yet haunting enough to make you sleep with one eye opened, Marissa Nadler has carved her own place in music defying any kind of genre or tag.<\/p>\n

The song “If I Could Breathe Underwater” was co-written with one of Marissa’s longtime friends, Mary Lattimore.\u00a0 Marissa had this to say about the song:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I wrote \u2018If I Could Breathe Underwater,\u2019 I was contemplating the possibilities of possessing various superhuman powers: teleportation, shapeshifting, energy projection,
\naquatic breathing, extrasensory perception, and time travel to name a few,\u201d says Nadler. \u201cAs a lyrical device, I married those powers with events in my life, wondering if and how they could
\nchange the past or predict the future. I loved working on the melody for this song and bringing the choruses to their climaxes. Mary\u2019s layered, hallucinatory shimmers really echo the netherworld of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n

The accompanying video, beautifully directed and edited by Jenni Hensler with cinematography by Nick Fancher, serves to create a preternatural world where Nadler changes the colors of the sky and the water, floats weightlessly through seas, and becomes one with layers of color and ink. It was shot on 16mm film (with the exception of the underwater shots). \u201cThis song took on many meanings to me and I love that about it. How beauty and tragedy collide,\u201d says Hensler. \u201cDreaming of having supernatural powers to change reality and have the ability to live and breathe underwater. It could also speak to the duality of existence. That we all have inner personas or shadow selves, and how we envision those different masks we wear. I chose to make something that touched on the idea of duality and the inner persona. To connect to the two worlds.\u201d<\/p>\n