Download & Stream : smarturl.it/matteppshadowlands
About the song/video:
I was being called the "quintessential troubadour" - that's how people saw me, and how I experienced life, all my life. The Road was born and bred into me.
This whole album, Shadowlands, is about my struggles with the last few years especially - settling into a real home, and, the first thing in my life I'd have to learn not to leave behind: my family.
'Runaway', the album's lead track, begins the story. It's written from the perspective of my partner, who has witnessed my restlessness while I did the equivalent of jamming a branch into my own spokes, throwing myself to the gutter, over and over. Not only is it written from her-to-me in perspective, we actually did write this song together, sitting side by side in our marital bed.
She saw me with a new loneliness - where the feeling you have when you are alone is replaced with the one you have when you're not being true to yourself. In short, she is urging and encouraging me to go do what is good and healing for my soul, at the cost of 'us'. For the sake of us.
This day-in-the-life video for 'Runaway' shows me feeling light like the weight has been lifted, reconnecting to my natural habit - the land, the bike, the Road.
CREDITS
Produced by Matt Epp & Barnburner Collective
Directed by Mitch Barnes
Edited by Mitch Barnes
Colour by Mitch Barnes
Cameras:
Mitch Barnes
Victor Malang
Cast:
Cast:
Matt Epp (biker)
Paul Vasilak (biker)
Morgan Barrie
Jesse Wilkinson
