Video Premiere: Andrea Ramolo - Quarantine Dream
Accomplished contemporary folk singer-songwriter Andrea Ramolo released her seventh studio album, Quarantine Dream, on October 22nd, 2021. The record takes its idea’s to their furthest boundaries with Ramolo explaining:
“The record’s about extreme hope, extreme fear, extreme loss, extreme loneliness, and extreme imagination — wishing and hoping for a better tomorrow,”
Another notable extreme from the album is the decision to work with as many women as possible to create the record. Quarantine Dream was produced, mixed, and engineered Sarah MacDougall, mastered by Elisa Pangsaeng, and features co-writes with Kinnie Starr and Hill Kourkoutis and Madison Violet’s Brenley MacEachern and Lisa MacIsaac. Ramolo explains:
“Don’t get me wrong, I love men, but I made the decision you need to be the change. The music industry is a man’s world; there aren’t hundreds of women coming out of the woodwork because we haven’t been given the opportunities. I have worked with really good men, but this is an opportunity to start the shift. It has to start with us women hiring women.”
Today, the Cups N Cakes Network is honoured to premiere the video for the albums title track, “Quarantine Dream.” The song takes a hopeful approach to ideas like climate change, violence, and war, with Ramolo taking time to reflect throughout the pandemic in a healthy manner, with optimism not cynicism.
“In the quiet of quarantine, the world stopped and we all slowed down enough to get back in touch with the things that matter most to us. A healthy planet, peaceful and loving interactions, and justice for all people amidst a world full of fierce fierce love sounds like a good place to start."
The video was directed and edited by Jacq Andrade and plays on the theme of life in quarantine being similar to life in a snow globe.
"I had this vision last year when I was trapped indoors and writing the title track for the record of being stuck inside a human-sized snow globe. Us humans often find snow globes so magical and fascinating because we get to peer into this wonderful little sliver of an imaginary world. But we never really think about what the characters who are stuck inside the globe are feeling. Finally, we all got a little taste of that, didn't we? I wanted to capture the essence of feeling stuck and suffocated and have such a tainted but beautiful world around me that I could see, but I couldn't yet touch. Maybe that's the hope... we can see it.... the beauty and what this life could be... now we just need to create it so that we can live it. Also, I just thought being trapped in a giant bubble would truly capture the last two years of our lives."
Enjoy the video below and purchase Quarantine Dream here.