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The Official music video for 'And Love' written and performed by Carla Patullo, featuring Lili Haydn, the Scorchio Quartet, and the vocal ensemble Tonality. This is the final track of Carla Patullo's GRAMMY® nominated album SO SHE HOWLS. With SO SHE HOWLS, Patullo creates a blend of howling vocals, orchestral swells, and electronic pulses, as well as field-recorded sounds from the natural and the machine worlds. Natural elements like rain and wind were field recorded and blended into the tracks ‘So She Howls’ and ‘To Forest Scenes,’ which features an emotionally charged solo by Lorenza Ponce. Whereas other tracks such as ‘Machine Dreams’ implement manmade-like elements such as hospital radiation machinery, urban traffic sounds, and killer electric viola by Martha Mooke. In several tracks, the strong and open-hearted voices of the choir Tonality marry with Patullo’s vulnerable and intimate vocals to create intricately sculpted soundscapes, each track transporting the listener into an immersive new mind-state, evolving from hauntingly beautiful lullabies into uplifting anthems of recovery and resilience. The first few tracks in the album such as ‘If You Listen’ and ‘So She Howls’ are hypnotic and haunting as they tell the earlier part of the story, filled with grief, fear, and the unknown abyss of death. Their darkness, though, is expressed with a beauty and a power that cuts to the soul and echoes the despair in humanity. In contrast, the last two tracks, ‘Earth’ and ‘And Love’ most strongly embody the concepts of healing and adventure. Especially ‘And Love,’ which recounts the moments of being surrounded by different loved ones, ghostly figures, like a montage of loves flashing before her eyes. In these moments, and also when Carla gave grace to her healing body, she was able to push forward, move beyond grief, and to ultimately, seek adventure. And it is no coincidence that the vibrant violinist Lili Haydn is featured on this last track. Her violin solos are like wings, direct representations of this sense of adventure, strength, and openness to living life and shucking fear to the side. Overall, SO SHE HOWLS creates a force that will open any cynical heart with its vulnerable, raw, haunting, hopeful, and layered musical story.
