Photo credit: Nick Mckk
Australian folk singer songwriter Jess Ribeiro is back today with a new single, "Summer of Love", out now via Labelman. A warm, piano-led song wrapped in hopefulness and love that came out of a period of tangible vulnerability and mourning.
Jess sings, “We need a summer of love like no other, a gate way to good vibes with each other”.
The music video for ‘Summer of Love’ was filmed and directed by Nick Mckk who is well known for his collaborations with musician Julia Jacklin, RVG and Rolling Blackouts. Nick and Jess made the music video spontaneously after plans changed due to cast members getting sick.
Ribeiro shares: “Nick is one of my favorite people to work with, he’s intuitive, open and empathetic.”
"Summer of Love" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5zRDqmiazo
"Summer of Love" opens with just two simple piano chords before slowly folding in strings and lightweight percussion, a minimalist soundbed that only amplifies the vulnerability evident in Jess Ribeiro’s vocals. The soft yet grounding instrumentation came courtesy of Jim White’s (Dirty Three, Xylouris White, Cat Power) almost invisible drums, Carrie Webster’s double-threat violin and viola, and piano by Nick Huggins, who also lent his hand to recording the track.
"Summer of Love’" was first written during the heartbreaking Victorian summer of 2019-2020 at a solar powered shack on the Great Ocean Road down past Gadubanud Country/Apollo Bay, with her friend and musical collaborator Dave Mudie (Courtney Barnett, Super American Eagles). Ribeiro shares, “We used all the solar power trying to record demos, so it ended in us using torches and a candle for the rest of the night as well as being terrified that the feral pigs were going to get us.”
‘"Summer of Love" was originally born as an 80’s pop song recorded with producer John Castle (Vika & Linda, Cub Sport), before a second life as a Velvet Underground-inspired rock number made alongside Mick Harvey (The Birthday Party, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds). What you hear is its third and final incarnation, and for Jess Ribeiro, the song’s true form: capturing the rawness and vulnerability she felt around the reopening of a much-publicised missing person’s case that marked the end of her childhood. Ribeiro shares, “This song has undergone many evolutions but this version suits where I’m at. It's stripped back, vulnerable, reflective.”
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