Tasmanian-based The Sheyana Band recently released their six-track EP, 'Ricochet', a collection of six songs that came together during COVID.
With plenty of free time to fill, Sheyana and her bandmates – Wayne Rand (lead guitar/ vocals), Dan Jeffrey (bass) and Leigh Hill (drums/ vocals) – quickly found the songwriting flowing with lyrical ideas mirroring those strange times of lockdowns (feelings of isolation combined with existential dread fostered by a shared loved of bringing individuals and community back together).The EP's opening song 'Big Hearts' is a pop-rock number that's a rollicking ride of soul-bluesy-flavoured tones that hurtles along with a feel-good energy you'll find hard not to soak up.
Lyrically, the track's an emotional journey as it explores life, love, loss, pain, hope, fear, vulnerability, uncertainty and faith, questioning whether there's another way to travel to reach the 'place where we use our Big Hearts to look after our planet and each other'.
The music video for 'Big Hearts' portrays Sheyana on the open road journeying to find what her key to happiness is. She gathers up her band up and follows her heart to a new beginning, back to her roots, her nature and the power of music.
scenestr is thrilled to premiere the 'Big Hearts' clip today. Enjoy.
During the filming of the clip, the band did have a brush with the law.
"Badly parked on a country road in the middle of nowhere shooting the car scene," begins Sheyana, "we were about to test the acceleration of the immaculate 1968 GT Ford Torino, when the only car we'd seen all day appeared in the rear vision mirror. It was the police!
"A car full of grown adults reverted to teenagers and proceeded to hide anything they happened to be holding (including the camera). Turns out everyone was surprised! 'That's not something you see everyday,' said the policewoman.
"Admittedly, it was the official pace car that carried Miss Universe to open the 1968 Indianapolis 500, full to the brim with The Sheyana Band and 'Big Hearts' blaring!"
The band collaborated with director Andrew Del Vecchio to bring the video to life.
"To be trusted by Sheyana to tell this story in locations dear to her heart was, as an artist/ filmmaker, a humbling experience and something I felt honoured to be able to do," Andrew says.
"Besides that, her and the band, Dan, Wayne and Leigh are a bunch of kick-ass humans and we had an absolute ball making this."
