Aotearoa eight-piece The Black Seeds have shared their first new music of 2022, the contagiously upbeat joyous jam 'Bring The Sun'.
Set to feature on the group's forthcoming new studio album (their first since 2017's 'Fabric'), 'Bring The Sun' was written by co-frontman Daniel Weetman.The track, which also features a scorching guitar solo from new guitarist Ryan Prebble, began life as a demo Daniel wrote using an app on his phone, before the band re-built the track in Pro Tools. "It was a classic COVID co-lab effort," Daniel says.
"A week-long marathon Zoom session that had everyone sending in their tracks and giving their feedback as me and Nigel [Patterson, keyboard] sculpted the track into place."
Given current travel restrictions, the music video for 'Bring The Sun' playfully looks at some new digital habits that have become the new-normal during the pandemic.
"My eldest son lives in Sydney," begins Daniel, "and due to the COVID restrictions with travel I started to wonder and worry about when I would see him again.
"We keep in contact a lot over video calls and when we speak it is for hours and we connect really well through this technology at a distance.
"So the song revealed itself to be about the strong bond my son and I have, and that the distance between us is nothing when our love for each other is unbreakable."
