Ed Harcourt playing London Roundhouse for ‘Fightback’ (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever)
Ed Harcourt‘s promo for You Give Me More Than Love is as much documentary as it is music video thanks to his collaboration with award-winning journalist Christian Stephen.
Pushing Harcourt’s seventh album Furnaces, the video was put together in northern Iraq; “Upon returning from one of many trips to Northern Iraq to report on the crisis within, I was fortunate enough to take courage and personal refuge in what was yet an undiscovered internal country, for myself at least,” Stephen explains.
“That solace was the work of my dear friend, collaborator, brother, and herculean musical talent – Ed Harcourt.”
“We soon found that as I was releasing my frontline reports and he releasing his 7th studio album ‘Furnaces’ that we had separately approached a similar, merciless near-limit of what could be communicated about our brutally dark, yet staggeringly beautiful world.”
“This video is a labour of love for us both, and an attempt to communicate the incommunicable. To defy the clinical packaging of a news report, and do our utmost to conjure a more emotive view of the conflict from an atmosphere all too easily relegated to the darkness.”
