STEPHANIE CHEROTE RETURNS
WITH MELLIFLUOUS NEW SINGLE
& VIDEO “WHAT BECOMES OF THE
THINGS I’VE SEEN?”
For fans of Nick Cave, Stevie Nicks, Leonard Cohen and Lana Del Rey
Stephanie Cherote’s soft musical caress returns with her latest single, “What Becomes Of The Things I’ve Seen?”, written in a converted laundromat during a New York winter.
A broken heart is seldom an easily healed wound, and as the Byron Bay artist began to work through the broken pieces of a relationship, Cherote realised how many mountains lay before her in the journey of recovery.
“Sorting through my grief I got stuck in a place (emotionally), where I didn’t know how to file away all the fragments of this person that were still vividly alive in me. When you love someone you absorb the many impressions and sensory details of them, and every path I set out on to move beyond this person I couldn’t be with any more, seemed to be paved by enduring imprints of them, hence, the question “’What Becomes Of The Things I’ve Seen?’ “
The song, both melancholy and wonderfully euphonious, is the second track from Cherote’s forthcoming album, “Some Holy Longing” recorded at The Grove Studiowith a twelve-piece orchestra. “I am relieved to have arrived at a place where I have a finished record – a piece of work that suggests I have been going in ‘a’ direction!” Cherote tells of the release.
WATCH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO “WHAT BECOMES OF THE THINGS I’VE SEEN?”
Working with illustrator and graphic artist Mitch Meseke, Cherote has brought the song to life in a video filmed in Texas and Byron Bay. Not one to make a decision that isn’t based on pure feeling, Cherote carefully chose Mitch as her artistic counterpart to bring people into a world that portrays the haunting discomfort and the beautiful aura of nostalgia.
“I came across Mitch’s hand-cut collages some time ago and was struck by the extraordinarily warped realities he creates using vintage National Geographic magazines. They are enchanting and deeply thought provoking, often turning life inside-out or portraying the mythical world with so much candour and familiarity, almost as though it is hovering within our range of sight but we are just too caught up in the commonplace to see it”
“I felt that his visual realms and my sonic worlds were two sides of the same coin, so I reached out and asked if he would be interested in making a stop-motion music video clip using the hand-cut collage approach. Mitch was very excitable and actually just curious in the most beautiful child-like way, he hadn’t made a stop-motion clip for such a long duration but wanted to try it. We did discuss certain themes and I sent him the lyrics for the song so that he could take in the sentiment but I really wanted him to just dive in and cut the images intuitively. He came back to me with something incredibly striking and other-worldly.”
Reminiscent of Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen, and Nico, Cherote’s music has earned her opportunities to work with major record labels, although she withdrew for fear of feeling “emotionally unqualified.” She explains “I wanted to deepen my songwriting with life experience, in my own time.” After taking time to travel, sing her songs at open mic nights in NYC, live in an off-the-grid cabin and raise twenty thousand dollars through crowd funding for her debut album, “What Becomes Of The Things I’ve Seen?” is served as the second taste of a wonderful body of work to come.
2020 is firmly paved for the introduction of this uncompromising artist whose deep introspection yields songwriting of timeless importance.
Stephanie Cherote ‘What Becomes Of The Things I’ve Said’ Official single artwork above
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