WATCH & SHARE: Panteon – “The Hill” (Official Music Video)
Berlin-born, NYC-based artist Panteon shares the official music video for her latest single, “The Hill,” out now on all DSPs. The 405 exclusively premiered the video, praising her use of multimedia art forms, stating, “The song’s video, which is premiering on The 405 today, utilizes a wide variety of mediums — collage, video footage and animation — which serve both as a compelling realization of the song’s subject matter and as a testament to Ambrée’s considerable artistic skill.”
The latest release from indie artist was written during her residency at Banff Center of Arts and Creativity (Canada). The song was written in less than an hour looking outside the studio space at a view of steep and snowy mountain peaks. One mountain in particular called ‘Sleeping Buffalo’ in the native Blackfoot tribe called Iini Istako holds a rumor that it shouldn’t be a place to settle for long because of it’s other worldly energy.
The song plays with the concept of nature and the always moving city life where it feels easy to disconnect from your inner voice and just lose focus to everything around you. The chorus line of the song ‘You’re pulling me to the wire and telling me to cover up the fire’ refers to the idea of suppressing instinct and intuition, and trading it for a life of seeking constant momentum while loosing the spark inside.
Panteon was born of a desire to ensconce oneself in exotic, oftentimes remote locations around the world and document whatever emotions and stories are evoked.
The logbook of a musical journey-woman navigating unfamiliar terrain and allowing herself to be moved in hopes to better understand and accept her own elusive story.
It is the nom de plume of Yvonne Ambrée, who as a child grew up behind the wall in East Berlin and to whom boundary and immersion have deeper implications. Traveling solo save for a smattering of musical accouterment and notebooks to gather field recordings and pen new music.
Panteon is a musical projectionist but is Ambrée projecting herself into the environment or the other way around?
