Dana Margolin and her Big Beautiful Sound
Big Beautiful Sound arrives alongside a music video directed by Mike Mills and Joe Nankin, produced by Ways & Means.
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Dana Margolin unveils her debut solo single, Big Beautiful Sound, ahead of an autumn that includes a headline London show, festival appearances, and a run of dates opening for Ezra Furman.
Big Beautiful Sound is accompanied by a stark, spellbinding black-and-white video by acclaimed director and filmmaker Mike Mills (Talking Heads, Air, Pulp, The National) and Joe Nankin, and produced by Lana Kim, Jett Steiger, and Hana Antrim of Ways & Means, that perfectly matches the quiet intensity of the music itself.
Director Mills lends his visually precise and disarmingly tender eye to Big Beautiful Sound, beautifully lensing Margolin in an open state of vulnerability as the song moves through her. Stylized yet grounded in the naturalism typical of documentary filmmaking, Mills’s cinematic taste perfectly complements the depth of feeling in Big Beautiful Sound.
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- Production Company Ways & Means
- Director Mike Mills
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Credits
View on- Production Company Ways & Means
- Director Mike Mills
- Post Production TRAFIK
- Director Joe Nankin
- Producer Hana Antrim
- Executive Producer/Founder Lana Kim
- Executive Producer/Founder Jett Steiger
- Head of Production Danika Casas
- Head of Post Production Grant Keiner
- DP Joe Nankin
- Colorist Mark Gethin
- Color Producer Rebecca Boorsma
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Credits
powered by- Production Company Ways & Means
- Director Mike Mills
- Post Production TRAFIK
- Director Joe Nankin
- Producer Hana Antrim
- Executive Producer/Founder Lana Kim
- Executive Producer/Founder Jett Steiger
- Head of Production Danika Casas
- Head of Post Production Grant Keiner
- DP Joe Nankin
- Colorist Mark Gethin
- Color Producer Rebecca Boorsma
Of the process, Mills shares: “I have been moved by Dana Margolin’s voice, lyrics, and songs for years now. I love Dana's new solo music so much, it was exciting for me to try to make a portrait of Dana and the many spirits that run through Big Beautiful Sound.”
Nankin adds, “Our idea for Big Beautiful Sound was to create a video that gave Dana a clean stage to stand on. With a song this beautiful and evocative, and an artist with such a strong personal aura, all we wanted to do was let them shine. It was such a joy to make.”
Having spent the past decade leading one of the most acclaimed, mercurial British indie-rock bands in recent memory, on Big Beautiful Sound Margolin peels away the layers, offering a dark, poetic and open-hearted first glimpse at her world as a solo artist. Adorned by the rustle of fingers on guitar strings and minimal percussion, Margolin’s enveloping vocal is allowed center stage as the song builds from moments of despair and silence into a rich emotional epiphany.
Of the track, Margolin shares: “We go all the way down together, down a spiral staircase into the centre of the earth where there is darkness and nothing can grow, and we chose to go there, and wasn’t it fun, and right there at the deepest depths of the journey is a glowing ember, something luminous, a big and beautiful sound.”
