Solomon Cole is a local of Waiheke, an island within the South Pacific that’s a part of New Zealand. With a inhabitants of a little bit greater than 9,000, it might not be the optimum place for a proficient, blues-based singer and guitarist to orchestrate a profession. Nevertheless it’s Cole’s model of a “bohemian paradise.” And floor zero for the launch of his upcoming LP, Ain’t Obtained Time To Die, due later this yr.
You get a mysterious style of Waiheke within the video for “Get Up Get On,” the album’s newest single. “It options just a bit little bit of this island that runs by the arteries and DNA of this document,” says Cole. “5 minutes from my house is a good looking native bush and ocean that have been as soon as residence to early Maori tribes. I’m a New Zealand Maori, and the spot within the video is a magical place, the place you’ll be able to really feel one thing else used to inhabit the world.”
Cole additionally notes that it’s a spot the place magnificence and sorrow comingle—and you may sense that in video and the tune. “It’s within the grime, the bush and the sand … a sense of melancholy,” he says. “I’m paying tribute to it, together with different visceral photos, like snake dealing with, chain gangs and the grave web site. The bush jogs my memory each week that nothing lasts. However I ain’t obtained time to die simply but.”
We’re proud to premiere Solomon Cole’s “Get Up Get On.”
—Hobart Rowland
