AUSSIE POP STARLET, MONTAIGNE RELEASES LIVE VIDEO
Off the back of her acclaimed debut EP, Life Of Montaigne and anticipated, sold out national headline tour in April, whimsical Aussie pop starlet, Montaigne has released a new live video for EP track, A Cinematic Plea For An End.
Montaigne, also known as Jess Cerro, showcases her exquisite songwriting ability, luring the listener in to her vast musical dreamscape with her intrepid song, A Cinematic Plea For An End. Beginning with a raw, vulnerable vocal and impeccably understated instrumentation, the song builds in to a work of art, bounding with fury and defiance, captured perfectly in the live setting that this video was recorded in.
The live video and audio recording for A Cinematic Plea for An End was filmed and produced by Masses Collective (Hungry Kids of Hungary, Something With Numbers, Ball Park Music), with audio recorded and mixed by Adrian Breakspear, and shot on the Sydney leg of Montaigne’s recent sold out headline tour at Brighton Up Bar.
“Cinematic the song basically expresses several issues with idealism, both in platonic and romantic relationships,” explains Montaigne. “It is pretty much a letter to myself which is me trying to ensure that I don’t create unreasonable and idealistic expectations of situations and relationships, so that I don’t hurt myself nor others.”
A regular on the national touring circuit, Montaigne was included in the line up at Groovin The Moo (Canberra), has recently supported Megan Washington and San Cisco, and is set to perform at Come Together Festival and open the Japanese Wallpaper national tour. “I love performing, I love the thrill of it, the challenge, the risk, and the result when you pull it off. And I just love singing. I always do it, and when I’m performing on stage I get to do it in a grander setting and on a grander scale. I also really love meeting fans. They’re always really lovely, very affirming, very effusive, which I like in a person,“ enthuses Montaigne.
And if you didn’t catch a show around the country, it’s likely you’d have heard her on Triple J, with recent singles, I’m A Fantastic Wreck and I Am Not An End both spun on high rotation. The video for Montaigne’s Sia Chandelier cover performed for Triple J’s Like A Version has now had over two hundred thousand views. Silverchair’s Straight Lines was the second song option, Montaigne clarifies, “I figured Straight Lines is already perfect the way it is and if one were to do it any other way, it wouldn’t be me doing it because I can’t envision it sounding any other way. Chandelier felt right because of the vocal of the song. I like pushing my limits a bit with vocals, and that song was perfect.”