"Change of Season" music video

Hi all,

I have a new music video out for my song "Change of Season".

I spent the first couple months of the pandemic upstate NY with my friend Tom Krueger. We went for a hike every single day. It was non-negotiable. The routine was dialed in: water bottles, a clementine each, pants tucked into socks to deter ticks (are there really ticks even in the snow? We weren't taking any chances.)

Tom started taking all these short iPhone videos of me walking on the trails, at first for no particular reason. One day, on what was supposed to be a more ambitious outing, we were delayed for at least an hour by an irresistible ledgeful of icicles. Tom asked didn't I have some kind of snowy song that needed a music video...

The chorus goes "A change of season brings a change of heart / what was getting me so down, I do not know / January hides the dirty parts / underneath the snow". Alec Spiegelman (who produced this song, and the album that it's from, Secret Admirer) helped me finish writing the lyrics, walking around Ditmas Park on a studio break. I remember debating with him - wasn't January a little late for the first snow? But then that year (2019?) January DID end up bringing the first snowfall, in NYC... and besides, it was a month that rolled off the tongue and had a fitting number of syllables. It doesn't matter: we all know how it feels. How when the seasons change, and things look different and smell different and sound different, it has the power to shake you out of - or at least temporarily relieve - whatever funk you might be in.

Whichever month is bringing you this transformation, in this song, it's January, and here we are. I got my friend Sam Tudor (who is also a great songwriter, and he has a live-stream this Sunday) to edit together Tom's footage, and I think he nailed it.

This song features the flugelhorn playing of Nadje Noordhuis, who I discovered playing duo with James Shipp at a house concert in Brooklyn some years ago. Also we have the most-excellent Robin MacMillan on drums (I think we restricted him to just floor tom for this song), who's all over the album. He's also on Alec's latest album Airplane Mode.

This video wouldn't exist were it not for TK's boundless enthusiasm, creativity, initiative, see-it-through-ness, love and support. Miss you pal.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you're all doing alright and getting outside as much as possible, wherever you live!

Love,

Zoe