The music video portrays Alexandra Alden taking on two roles opposed to one another - in one role she is carefree and at peace with her surroundings, enjoying the familiar landscape which is available to everyone, and in her other persona she is luxuriously wealthy, but disconnected, despairing and lost.
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this is a collaboration between Alexandra Alden & MarieClaire Portelli .
filmed by MarieClaire Portelli .
edited by MarieClaire Portelli and Alexandra Alden (the ideas were bouncing all over the place!)
with special thanks to the Portelli family .
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Full-length album 'Wild Honey' (2018) is available for streaming on Spotify and available on VINYL.
Composed and performed by Alexandra Alden.
Recorded at Rocktown Studios, Rotterdam (NL) and released on MARS Worldwide.
Produced by Hanyo Van Oosterom and Ocki Klootwijk.
Cello by Marien Okkerse.
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The titular song of Alexandra Alden's new album, Wild Honey & Thyme, discusses the conflict in modern Maltese society between holding on to our roots and the drive towards personal profit.
"I was frustrated by how the landscape of Malta and Gozo is being consumed by buildings, litter and all sorts of pollution. Having been studying in the Netherlands while reading about overdevelopment in the news was getting me down, it made me feel helpless and like I couldn't do anything." Alexandra Alden explains. "So the only way to vent the frustration was to write a song about it. On the world stage, we are losing touch with nature. We are overvaluing the manufactured instead of adapting and evolving with the natural."
"We see nature as something separate from ourselves rather than as an extension of ourselves. If we feed our bodies junk then it will look like junk and feel like junk." Alex concludes.
Wild Honey & Thyme depicts the duality and contradiction of a world of luxury and a natural world in decline, framed in our local context. If we cannot protect our own inheritance, and a future for our children, then for what are we really living, except our bubbles?
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