ONLINE PREMIERE: Old Sault - Sail Home

6 June 2017 | 11:27 am | Staff Writer

Gold Coast up-and-comer Old Sault officially unveiled the clip for her new song, Sail Home, at Vivid Sydney at the weekend, and theMusic.com.au is proud to now bring you its online premiere, hot on the heels of her stunning debut EP, Mostly Worried.

Created in collaboration with writer/director Richard Clifford (of Spilting Films), the clip is presented as a short movie, opening with Old Sault — aka Angie Farr — reciting a passage from Narcissus & Goldmund, by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse as a solitary figure — played by Jess Sommerfeld — throws a lit flare towards the horizon before opening up into its primary visual narrative.

The video makes elegant, engaging use of stark imagery, slow-motion close-ups and the juxtaposition of Old Sault's warm vocals and instrumentals against a frozen Canadian landscape. An aerial shot of a barren forest is particularly striking, though Sail Home's video — as with the song itself — is filled with gorgeously realised moments, musician and filmmaker comprehensively complementing each other's strengths across its near-six-minute run time.

"When Angie first showed me the track it was the middle of winter in Toronto, so the snow and freezing weather had a huge impact on the creative," Clifford said of the video's conception. "I felt like the song and lyrics had a very isolated vibe to it. Choosing to film in an old cabin in Northern Ontario, coupled with the extreme elements, helped set up that visual for being alone in these thoughts, in that it’s an eternalised confrontation.

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"Essentially, we wanted to relay the message that we all tend to sacrifice our creative selves out of fear and would prefer taking the safer/less risky option to save face. The Herman Hesse quotes were added to push the idea of the battle between the aforementioned frame of mind and the one wishing to be creative."

The video follows Old Sault's equally beautiful recent single, Sleeping With Danger — though Sail Home itself was released before that track — and both songs, along with first single Ghost, serve to solidify her place as an artist well worth watching as she establishes herself on the national stage.

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Mostly Worried is available now.