DIRECT/EDIT: JEREMY RUBIER
PRODUCED BY: Video.Siren
The piece “Komorebi”, written for guitar, deals with the essential aspects of modern living as the artist found himself in his apartment without electricity for over a week: “Last spring I woke up one morning and there was no electricity in our apartment. Turns out we lived in our apartment for 8 months without a contract, and that morning they had decided to cut our electricity. The following eight days I was struggling with every essential aspect of modern living. I was in the middle of finishing remixes and my laptop charged out every second hour, so I couldn’t find creative peace. This lead me to pick up my son’s acoustic guitar. I hadn’t played properly in a few years, but now playing guitar was so rewarding. For a few days I wrote and recorded song after song, and one of these songs was ’Komorebi’. In some way, I would say our electricity provider is responsible for that song.” – Sailor & I
The music video of Sailor & I – “Komorebi” is not what you'd expect from a typical scene of Berlin by night. This time, we get to know a different side of Berlin – from the eyes of two kids wandering through the night, turning the gritty city into their own playground. The video features the two young Swedish boys Frans and Uno, the sons of Alexander Sjödin, who is the artist (Sailor & I) behind the song “Komorebi”. Forced by their parents to be exposed to a new environment, to learn a new language, and to get the experience of adapting to a major changes in their lives, Frans and Uno had moved from Stockholm to Berlin in 2018. Moving from one country to another, this naturally involved challenges, as leaving their loved friends and the world they knew as their own. During the coming months, Frans & Uno managed by themselves to establish a new life in Berlin, with friends, sports and getting to know new people they randomly met on the street. They embraced Berlin and Berlin embraced them. The video is as much a tribute to Frans & Uno and their individual journeys moving to a new place and establishing a new life there, as well as a tribute to Berlin, which took them into its heart. The melancholic, filmic song “Komorebi” of Sailor & I makes the perfect background to tell this story by balancing delicately between light and dark, happy, sad, to land into the melancholic state of mind, where we often get when we're in between two worlds, letting go of the past and embracing the new.
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