SoulCircuit – Rolling With Me (I Got Love) ft. Maverick Sabre
SoulCircuit – Rolling With Me (I Got Love) ft. Maverick Sabre (2015)
Directed by: Dan Henshaw
London duo SoulCircuit announced their second single a couple of weeks back, teaming up with Maverick Sabre who lends his emotive vocal alongside the producer’s unquestionable slick production, stamping their mark well and truly all over summer 2015.
Following a trip to New Orleans, director Dan Henshaw‘s approach to the video encapsulated what he saw in the cross-section of parades at Mardi Gras:
“Its mishmash of music, sin and spirituality make it unlike anywhere else in the US. On a previous visit I’d seen these African American guys parading around the ‘hood in elaborate, home made American Indian suits with psychedelic-colored feathers, holding guns and shouting war cries. It was wild and intimidating but totally fascinating. Since then I knew I wanted to shoot a film about them.”
“My friend Chris, a New Orleans Local who had connections with the Mardi Gras Indians, filled me in about this working class, black tradition unique to Southern Louisiana, that traces its origins back to the times when Native Americans would shield escaped slaves from the white man. Freed slaves began ‘masking Indian’ (they never refer to dressing up or wearing costume, it would belittle the culture) to parade and show solidarity with another oppressed people in the late 1800’s, eventually forming their own tribes or gangs. In the early days there would be violence between some of the tribes, as local gangs “masked Indian” to settle grudges. Now it is a much more positive and celebratory way of life.” -Dan Henshaw
‘Rolling With Me (I Got Love)’ is released on The Full Hundred label on August 7th, pre-order from iTunes HERE
