Take Flight: freedom in its most simple and intense form
Levi Silvanie launches his new track and video
Rotterdam, February 27, 2020 — No story is a purer testimony of the strength of profound connections between people than the story behind Take Flight. With this new track, Curacao’s own singer/songwriter Levi Silvanie makes a comeback — after three years of absence. It’s a song with not just a remarkable background story, but also a unique message.
Levi wrote the song Take Flight almost eight years ago. In the turbulent year 2012, which was marked for the artist by the death of a dear friend and a broken engagement, he laid the groundwork for this track. Oddly enough, or maybe just because of that, Take Flight is about the strength of connections between people, and overcoming the fear to engage in these connections.
“Take Flight is about being open to loving one another. Everyone is unique, and therefore we must sometimes put aside the fear to be close to someone and to love each other,” says Levi. Taking flight doesn’t have to be about jumping off a plane, or some other enormous gesture. Levi: “I believe that the solution is to primarily learn to connect to, and love, yourself. The more you make the connection with yourself, the more you’ll learn about your inner strength — your ability to go through life growing, trusting that you’ll be alright no matter what. And the beauty of it all is that when you learn to connect with yourself, you’ll be able to see yourself in everything and everyone around you.”
Especially nowadays in our current multi-cultural society, the connection Take Flight is all about is such a fitting theme. This can also be seen in the upcoming video, which was directed by Shariff Nasr and produced by André Freyssen from Videoagency. In this video we see an unorthodox friendship take shape between a little boy who’s locked out of his house, roaming the streets of Rotterdam and a homeless man who helps the boy get back home. In the video, they pass by people who each in their own way find their strength and experience an important phase of their life. These people suddenly transform into a flock of birds — a transition that symbolizes the strength that they find.
How Take Flight was created
Levi also sees that connection in the story of how Take Flight came into being: “When I sent the demo music to Isak Strand, the co-producer of Take Flight, I didn’t know him. But I took a risk and got inspiration in return. I had to learn to trust people in order to grow. We can learn so much from each other, but you have to allow yourself to let it happen, to open yourself up to that form of growth.”
When Levi is touring through the Netherlands with Jandino (Asporaat), Shariff Nasr is in the audience one night when Levi plays Take Flight. Coincidentally, they share a ride back to Rotterdam. During this ride, Shariff tells Levi how the song moved him, and that he wants to direct a video for the song. Together with André from Video Agency, he manages to get the required budget. The video is recorded and shown for the first time at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). This was a very conscious choice, says Levi: “The video was shot in my city, Rotterdam, and even largely in my neighborhood. This neighborhood represents ‘connection’ to me, and recording the video here felt like the obvious choice.”
Now the moment has come to share this story with the audience. Levi’s fans can count on the singer/songwriter to be the way he always is: in his open, honest, and upfront way, he will open himself up to connect with his audience through this story. His wish is to do this in the form of an album to make this connection timeless.
Collaborate on the album
Because Levi believes in the power of collaboration, he wants to create his new album together with his audience. The album will, therefore, be financed through crowdfunding.
Coming soon on TV
Take Flight and the new album aren’t the only news. Levi will appear on a new talent show that will be broadcasted on TV. More info about the crowdfunding campaign and the new TV show will be shared soon on his social media channels:
Take Flight will be released on Monday, March 2, 2020. The music video will come out at the end of March. Levi’s new album is expected to be released in late 2020.
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