Deserted Eyes
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“If you like Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Anneke van Giersbergen or Eivør, you could only succumb to her new single Deserted Eyes. This is the kind of song written and performed with guts. The artist expresses how our moods, our negative feelings can destroy a relationship, whether romantic or otherwise. Her despair explodes with the same violence as an erupting volcano, then turns into a bubbling lava that nothing seems able to stop. Yet a touch of optimism reflected on the last notes. Nothing is forever…” – Sébastien Bonnays – Prog Female Voices
Winner – Best Music Video – London Greek Film Festival – Cosmocinema Award
Winner – Best Music Video – Five Continents International Film Festival
Official Selection – Animfest Film Festival 2018
DESERTED EYES - The fourth single release by the multi-instrumentalist Oh.
An ethereal and epic journey into the depths of the heart. Dynamic and rhapsodic vocals summon forth the soul. Penetrate deeply into the inner darkness. The narrator of the epic verse is a melodious and warm piano which is enveloped by softly beating drums which reluctantly release into turbulent and thunderous revelations while violin crescendos announce the sage-like proclamations for ecstatic surrender.
The song takes the listener beyond the vicissitudes of relationship and love - beyond the criteria of reciprocity and togetherness. It casts a light on the individual within the relationship rather than the relationship itself. Expressing how one's state of mind — if left unchecked and allowed to settle too long in dark and despondent moods —eventually wears away at the soul of the other — casting an immutable spell unwittingly upon the one you love.
Like water wearing away at stone - so affected by your state of mind, the eyes of your beloved - are left a void - the soul having abandoned not only their body but their own dreams and aspirations as well.
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DESERTED EYES is a music journey by progressive art rock multi-instrumentalist Oh.
Production Note
"Deserted Eyes" was filmed at the seashore in Glyfada a southern suburb of Athens, Greece in the late summer of 2017. During the filming, an oil spill occurred precipitated by the negligence of the Greek government - an ecological disaster in the waters of the Saronikos. On the last day of filming the beach was covered in oil, dead birds covered in tar and the stench of petrol in the air.
The song "Deserted Eyes" is about how a person's dark, depressed and toxic states of mind can poison our interpersonal relationships and eventually dim the light of the soul in the other's eyes, stealing their aspirations, hopes and finally the connection to their own soul and sense of self. The oil spill starkly depicted — with the blackening of the earth, toxic fumes, depressed state all present experienced, the death of wildlife — the irreparable damage to the interpersonal relationships shared everyday by all the beach-goers and coastal community. During post-production, we could not ignore the correlation that tragic event had to the song and so incorporated the visuals into the final clips.
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