[Cover photo credit to Fred Siegel]
NAACP award-winning author, songwriter, Grammy-nominated Producer, and multimedia storyteller The Reverend Shawn Amos has shared a new video for the track “It’s All Gonna Change (For The Better),” the latest single from his upcoming album Soul Brother No. 1. Soul Brother No. 1 will be released on May 3, 2023 via Immediate Family Records.
The video was created by the London-based artist David Sheldrick.
Amos writes:
Sheldrick’s use of music visualization software, photography, and computer animation is both hypnotic and unnerving. He created a completely original landscape for the song that contains multiple layers and meanings—a beautifully apocalyptic world where human callousness gives way to a reclamation of the planet by non-human lifeforms..
Amos continues:
There’s a famous comedy bit from George Carlin addressing human’s disgraceful treatment of Earth. It ends with the punchline, ‘The planet is fine. The people are fucked.’ This song takes a page from Carlin’s book of dark humor. It’s a conversation amongst non-human life counting down the days until these dumbass humans are out of the way.
For Soul Brother No. 1, Amos immersed himself in African American culture, “directly linking to the ongoing story” of his people’s “struggles, triumphs, and unshakable joy.”
He says:
The whole reason I started playing the blues was it connected me to my race in a way that I hadn’t fully understood. With Soul Brother No. 1, I’m taking that journey even deeper.
Amos and Producer James Saez (Social Distortion, The Road Kings) crafted a sonic world influenced by Afrocentric ‘70s Soul and Funk. They worked with drummer Steve Ferrone (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Average White Band, Chaka Khan), bassist Jerry “Wyzard” Seay (Stevie Nicks, Keb’ Mo’, Mother’s Finest), keyboardist-songwriter Dapo Torimiro (Lauryn Hill, Earth, Wind & Fire), and longtime Amos guitarist Chris “Doctor” Roberts.
Shawn Amos U.S. Tour Dates:
05/02/24 – Woodlands, TX – Dosey Doe
05/08/24 – San Antonio, TX – Sam’s Burger Joint
05/09/24 – Dallas, TX – Club Dada
06/08/24 – Santa Monica, CA – The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage
