The collage and animation video for “Heaven” by Paperface (done by the artist as well) really conveys the sense of wonder and confusion about one’s own identity after discovering the world isn’t quite what you assumed for years and that your dreams and aspirations are called into question because your very foundation as a human is now so tentative. The metaphor of getting some distance on your whole world via airplane and hot air balloon is obvious but it never seems heavy handed with the vocals intoning into a vast open space as percussion and piano keep up a simple rhythm and melody. Guitars fill in some of those musical spaces a bit, ringing out, backing vocals trickle in just before the song dynamic shifts and keyboards and distorted come in to accent climax of the song and the moment of realization as the narrator descends back into his body in a hospital and accepting life as it is rather than the alternative of escaping this mortal coil into infinity. It is a cycle of emotion, thought and personal transcendence cast into song. Other than that Paperface lives in a lighthouse and claims to add an orchestra in Prague and Budapest before finished and mixing the music in a borderline ruins of a chateaux outside Paris, the artist likes to keep things under wraps. That said, you can follow him and his work at the links below.
paperfacethemusic.co.uk
facebook.com/paperface
Queen City Sounds and Art 