Dubai: Dubai-based singer-songwriter Hamdan Al Abri has released the video for his new single, Falling.
Filmed around Dubai at popular spots at Deira Creek, Karama, Downtown Burj Khalifa and Dubai Festival City Walk, Falling received almost 1,000 hits on YouTube in just seven hours.
tabloid! caught up with Al Abri to find out more. “With everything that’s currently happening all over the world, the song is about me trying to make sense of everything and more importantly myself,” he said.
“The video provides the perfect visual of my state of mind as I try to figure out the world.”
Directed by Toronto-raised Muna Esmail assisted by co-director Shaun Mir, Al Abri said Dubai was the perfect place to film.
“The video shows me wandering through different parts of Dubai, lost in my own thoughts, trying to make sense of my life and everything that’s going on in the world. I’m surrounded by people, the city, and yet I feel alone.
“I’m sure a lot of people have gone through the feeling of isolation at some point in their lives and the video embodies that feeling perfectly,” he added.
Produced by up-coming producer Yasser Anderson, Falling features on Al Abri’s debut solo EP which released in October as a free download at hamdan.bandcamp.com.
Comprised of five tracks, the EP has a personal feel to it, touching on matters such as life, love and death, he said. “The concept was to create a diary of thoughts and experiences at a very specific moment in time, a part of myself I leave behind in this world, bare, for all to see, feel, enjoy and relate to,” he said.
Esmail captured the “rawness” of the song on a Canon 5D. “My co-director, Shaun Mir, and I wanted this song to touch people universally and it’s reflected in the emotions and colourful faces,” she added.
For more on Al Abri, go to Facebook.com/HamdanAbri.
