“Josephine’s bittersweet, ruminative, and velvety vocals reach out through the pensive atmosphere, as sight and sound support each other on a video that balances shadowy darkness and dawning light.”
– Big Takeover
March 20, 2018
Angela Josephine; Photo Credit: Matthew Von Dayton
Daylight, the long-awaited, full-length album from indie-folk artist Angela Josephine, is scheduled for release on May 4, 2018. The project is a folk-rock opera, and the cinematic prelude and first single on the release, “This Light,” sets the stage for the narrative that plays throughout the album – self-exploration.
Josephine explains, “I wanted to release this video and this song today because the vernal equinox is about a moment of existing in the balance between two extremes… winter and spring, darkness and light… and the length of darkness and light are nearly equal. It is a cosmic metaphor of not only the song, “This Light,” but also the album, Daylight.”
The video was directed by Matthew von Dayton, with whom Josephine had worked on a past video. “Matt is a genuine artist with a quiet manner and an enviable, quirky creativity,”says Josephine. “For example, there is an otherworldly light that appears and disappears throughout the video. That is Matt ‘magic’ and it involves fire and glass, but I’m not sure that I’m at liberty to say more. Suffice it to say, it was unique and creative!” …. (CONTINUED HERE)