YEDM first coated world music/EDM fusionist Mohamed Assani when his epic Wayfinder album dropped in 2020 and the award-winning sitar participant has made a variety of singles since then, however his new video for “Lullaby for Guli” off of Wayfinder has given us trigger to look at this lush and superbly produced album but once more.
Wayfinder is a type of albums that reveals one thing new to the listener each time it’s performed. With Assani’s wealthy and complicated sitar alone, it appears like every monitor is a narrative that unfolds in a different way every time you open it and has infinite endings. Add within the accompanying devices and digital manufacturing and it looks like there are millions of methods to understand this surprisingly brief (it doesn’t really feel brief) work.
With its new remaster, simply launched this 12 months, it appears there are much more methods now to hearken to and interpret the spiritually-tinged journey that’s Wayfinder, however along with his new video for the album’s second monitor “Lullaby for Guli,” Assani has given us his authentic that means: it’s a love track to his mom.
Typically a baby’s first expertise of music is within the type of a lullaby sung to them by their moms. This was positively the case for me – my mom sang me lullabies and instructed me fantastic tales – tales that formed me and the way I considered the world.
It appears with “Lullaby for Guli,” Assani needed to return the favor and make a monitor that encompassed all these emotions from childhood along with his mom. The video, produced by Pool Service Productions, isn’t just a lovely and heart-rending interpretation of the music, that includes excellent cinematography of Assani standing on a seashore and remembering the love and lullabies along with his mom. It additionally attracts forth the cinematic high quality of the manufacturing on this track and permits the listener to listen to it in a good deeper, extra emotional and positively extra private means.
“Lullaby for Guli” is a stunning reward to moms and an appreciation of ladies and its video a journey via the life and artwork of a person who clearly reveres them. It’s additionally an emotional reward to the world for Mohamed Assani to allow us to see the uncooked emotion of this monitor via the video; the ability of music and the ability of movie working collectively to create one thing much more highly effective. Assani’s mom handed in 2014 however the love he has for her is clearly as as alive as ever via this track and video.
To re-experience Wayfinder’s remaster (or to hear for the primary time), it may be streamed on Spotify or Bandcamp. For extra epic movies of Assani’s superb sitar taking part in, go to his YouTube channel.