Toronto songwriter, performer, producer and radio host Lily Frost has released a new single “Nightbird (Lilith)” (Indie release – KMG Distribution) with a new video out on YouTube.
“Nightbird (Lilith)” rides on an acoustic guitar riff and hand drum and is produced to bring elements of Celtic mystique through harp, accordion, percussion, and Lily’s stark, powerful vocals. She honours the glory and ubiquity of the feminine divine: whether siren, demon, goddess, or nightbird, who “lives within you” and offers “refuge in the night.”
In the spirit of the song, the video, produced by Jason Ball focuses on imagery of both the moon and the forest, symbols of the divine feminine that have extended from ancient times right through today.
Across many cultures, the moon symbolizes the divine feminine, its ebb and flow linked to intuition, change, fertility, and the subconscious, and its mysterious, reflective, and rhythmic nature to inner wisdom, emotional balance, and feminine power.
The imagery includes a red “blood moon,” which sometimes stands for renewal and spiritual power, and a blue moon, which resonates with the concepts of growth and wisdom. Similarly, forest symbolism is primarily rooted in the historical and cultural associations of women with nature, fertility, transformation, and wild, untamed power, and appears in mythology, literature, and eco-feminist philosophy.
A highlight in the video comes when Lily raises her arms and while cloaked in the white faux fur coat, her arms look like angelic wings as though she embodies Lilith in joyous flight, rising to glorious freedom.
“‘Nightbird (Lilith)’ was born out of deep study, spending a year immersed in the history of pre-Christian goddesses from pagan Celtic and Greco-Roman traditions,” Lily said.
“I found myself wholly drawn to the exploration of the feminine divine. I wanted to resurrect the myth of Lilith, now a feminist icon, who refused to lie beneath Adam and who came before Eve, and bring her voice to life in this song.”
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