New Music Video: Forces of Nature

Forces of Nature is the title track off of Colin’s forthcoming record, due out October 16, 2020 on Splice Records. He describes the making of the new video below.

"‘Forces of Nature’ has a driving, upbeat kind of feel, but lyrically it is basically a love song that uses a lot of imagery and simile to get the point across,” said Colin Lake. “For the music video we were able to use footage that we shot over the course of about two years while sailing in the Western Caribbean. I shot the primary footage with a Go-Pro and a selfie stick in Maria La Gorda, Cuba. It's a very remote part of Cuba along the southwest coast, well known for its diving and pristine water. The waters around that part of the island are also known for big dangerous waves where currents collide. Fittingly, we arrived there under sail in a squall and once things cleared up we could see this big old blue sailing schooner that had been shipwrecked on the beach in a powerful storm about a month earlier. The captain was a French Canadian guy that was staying at the little dive resort, waiting for help from his embassy to sort out a salvage operation. That boat felt symbolic of the forces of nature that I sing about in the song and that we are all at the mercy of, to one extent or another. I thought it could make a cool backdrop for a video, so I went out and spent half the day zooming around in the dinghy, lip-syncing the song over and over… I must have looked like a crazy person and there were definitely a few Cubans in uniform who took notice and were keeping track of me from shore, since at that time the Cuban military had jurisdiction over that boat. In Cuba someone is always watching."