Lee Ranaldo has released a music video for “Moroccan Mountains”. This follows the artist’s release of a music video for “New Things” and “Uncle Skeleton” and the release of the album Electric Trim.
According to the press release, Ranaldo explains the song saying “’Moroccan Mountains’ was begun sitting atop a blood-red carpet with yellow mountain shapes woven into it that was brought back from Fes on my first trip there in 1995. I was strumming the chords that became the song and those mountain shapes took me back to my first trip to the country and into the Rif Mountains where I first met and played with the Master Musicians of Jajouka, in their little hilltop village with no running water or electricity. Somehow those memories infused a certain ‘Moroccan spirit’ into the song. It was a magical time, for Morocco is a magical place, and I found myself transported back via the chords from my guitar. The opening spoken section about ‘falling into the crack between the window and the world’ is based on true events that took place on a train approaching Grenoble, France in 2015…”
Directed by Fred Riedel, the video was shot in Morocco, France, New York City, Berlin and over the skies of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The video is an excerpt from the upcoming documentary of the making of Electric Trim, called Hello Hello Hello: Lee Ranaldo: Electric Trim. The video can be watched below.
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