With his new album Inner Shibori out on Feb 11th, today PopWrapped are delighted to premiere the new single from Nashville based folk/soul singer-songwriter Jesse Correll called “An Icy Cold”, also the first to be lifted from the collection, and its video. “I remember sitting in the waiting room at a doctor’s office and the opening line – ‘Seaweed, ‘round my ankle, a cork-screwed tentacle’ – scrolled through my mind,” Correll recalls. “An Icy Cold” was inspired by this lyrical oceanic dreamscape, one that became a metaphor for Correll’s subconscious becoming aware of a troubling situation before his mind or body did.
Asked about the song-writing process to and behind the track, Corell shares: “I wrote it pretty quickly in an attempt to describe cycles of resentment and misunderstanding that were tearing my relationship apart. A relationship that, at that time, I thought was fine.” The accompanying video was directed, filmed, and edited by Anana Kaye and Irakli Gabriel of Duende Vision Productions, and choreographed by Rebecca Steinberg, in collaboration with the featured dancers. “The song is about destructive cycles that can happen in relationships; when I was working with the Anana, Irakli, and Rebecca, the question came up early on regarding whom we should cast: one couple? Male/Female? Did it matter? The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to be clear that this song is about love, and what happens in all relationships,” explains Correll of the video. “The song took on a deeper meaning for me – making it more clearly about what we can take from any one relationship to the next.”
Correll took a years-long break from making music, and this album is the culmination of life experience, surviving heartbreak, and transformation. He calls Inner Shibori a breakup album – if you’re breaking up with yourself. Shibori, a Japanese resist-dyeing technique, involves binding, stitching, folding, twisting, or compressing a natural fabric, dyeing it, and then releasing the bind and pressure to reveal its pattern. The cloth sensitively records both the form and the pressure; the “memory” of the tied shape remains imprinted in the cloth. “The technique spoke to me,” Jesse says. “We endure a lifelong process of unfolding, unbinding, unstitching, and unblocking. Little by little, we see that what we thought were stains, are intricate patterns; the design of unseen hands.” Inner work is never easy, but after all the pain and pressure comes the unique and beautiful reward.
Check out the video for “An Icy Cold” above and for more information on Jesse Correll, visit his website, give his page a like on Facebook or follow him on Twitter and Instagram. Header photo credit: Stacie Huckeba.
