YEDM first lined world music/EDM fusionist Mohamed Assani when his epic Wayfinder album dropped in 2020 and the award-winning sitar participant has made numerous 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 kind of albums that reveals one thing new to the listener each time it’s performed. With Assani’s wealthy and complicated sitar alone, it seems like every observe is a narrative that unfolds otherwise 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 yr, it appears there are much more methods now to take heed to and interpret the spiritually-tinged journey that’s Wayfinder, however along with his new video for the album’s second observe “Lullaby for Guli,” Assani has given us his unique that means: it’s a love tune to his mom.
Usually a toddler’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 seen the world.
It appears with “Lullaby for Guli,” Assani wished to return the favor and make a observe that encompassed all these emotions from childhood along with his mom. The video, produced by Pool Service Productions, isn’t just a fantastic 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 tune 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 present to moms and an appreciation of girls and its video a journey by the life and artwork of a person who clearly reveres them. It’s additionally an emotional present to the world for Mohamed Assani to allow us to see the uncooked emotion of this observe by 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 by this tune 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 wonderful sitar taking part in, go to his YouTube channel.
