Addie Brik
Georgia-born, Scottish-based artist’s Addie Brik shares video for Retromingent the latest track taken from new album That Dog Don’t Hunt released via Itza Records.
Paired with artistic new visuals conceived and directed by Addie; the official video for “Retromingent” has been edited by the esteemable Rick Elgood (The Clash, The Pogues ). A whirlwind of colour and creativity, it blends expert cinematography by celebrated Glasgow photographer Harrison Reid, surreal animations by Marian Obando, metal sculptures by Ross Spencer, and fluid choreography involving a cast of dancers (and local wildlife).
“This was shot here in Scotland at a local farm near where I live” says Addie of the video. “The animals did just keep running through”.
Co-written with Michael Timothy (Massive Attack), it also features expertly metronomic percussion from Jim McDermott (Simple Minds / The Silencers), guitars by Robbie Macinosh (The Pretenders / Paul McCartney), spacious piano parts and hammond organs, plus the voices of a thirty-strong children’s choir from The Scottish National Youth Choir.
Discussing the lyrical themes of Retromingent, Addie explains “Whatever people do or do not do to you along the way, if you can’t let go of that you’ll never get to where you should be going. So, there is Logos, the truth, not my personal take, or some lobbyist take on truth and I have a responsibility to think correctly and hold myself to higher standards, my future, heaven or hell, depends on it. People do what they do and will get their comeuppance. There’s a natural working order here that fulfils itself.”
With her first release since 2018’s acclaimed ‘I Have A Doctor On Board’, Addie’s new album documents the decline of Western society and culture, tells of the vilification of truth-sayers and whistleblowers, and derides the corrosion of free thought and the tide of dissolution our human liberties face in the 21st Century. Discussing the album, Addie comments: “I think Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato… the ancient Greeks blazed a very wise trail with the Golden Mean that influenced the best of what the West has achieved. The Golden Mean can right matters, which have gone too much in one direction, like betrayal or corruption; it’s about symmetry as opposed to chaos. The US Constitution, an inspired 4-page document, is still completely revolutionary. It states that man has unalienable rights, these rights are from Divine Authority and not from the State. It was written for ‘The one dissenting voice’. Whether it be society, music, architecture or education, the overarching thought should be: is it true, is it good, is it beautiful?”.
