22 October 2019 - 0 Comments

Award-winning singer-songwriter and producer Seth Haapu recently released Cool Down – a collaboration with Stan Walker – and today has unveiled the striking accompanying video, filmed in Rarotonga.

Watch the video here.

Get the video on iTunes or Apple

The video, which premiered with Radio New Zealand this morning, is directed by the award-winning Shae Sterling and mitigates glacial melt with the beauty of Polynesia. The idea came from Seth, who wanted something natural and symbolic of global warming in the Pacific Islands: “Through our Pacific origins, we are custodians of the environment. In the visual, we each express this role as an image of the land and sea.”

The song delivers a powerful message, brilliantly realised with compelling lyrics, crisp R&B beats immersed with Polynesian-instrumentation and a chorus, which simply soars with the sublime vocals of Seth and one of Aotearoa’s most well-known artists, Stan Walker.

Self-produced by Seth, Cool Down features a number of instruments, which are unique to the Pacific, including Pahu (made of native wood and shark skin) which gives a low pulse like a heartbeat; Pate and Rākau, which offer higher tones and can be heard as textured drum lines and the Hue Puruwai, which forms a shaker pattern that sounds like flowing water.

Listen to Cool Down on iTunes / Apple / Spotify

Find Seth Haapu:
Facebook / Instagram
YouTube / Apple / Spotify

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