Nolton Lake explains the inspiration for the songs on Pink Lights :
Peace After War was written after a very brief, but special moment that lasted only a few seconds, though it felt much longer to the singer-songwriter. He describes a scene, a woman, an inspiration: She was clear, surrounded by a pink light, and she was smiling at me. Everything around was blurry, I could only see her. That was one of the most powerful moments I have ever experienced in my life. A second can sometimes feel longer than eternity.
When I wrote Dreamers, I was sitting on the banks of the River Ganges in India, in the iconic town of Rishikesh, where the Beatles went for their famous meditative retreat. It's a beautiful town and the water has stunning blue and turquoise hues. It's literally the place where yoga originated from, says the artist. Pondering the distance between people, a distance that leads to so much hatred, pollution, and problems, he envisions a new reality, full of dreamers that together can make the world a better place.
Released last month, Lake Champlain evokes a series of unanswered questions. Sitting on the American shores of Lake Champlain, Nolton Lake wonders about human pleasure and happiness, perched high over another world, a world of which we know nothing. The desire to know more about this world is like the water of a lake: we see a little bit in the depth, but the rest, we are blind to.
Now I Know is a song about mental illness, the feelings of being misunderstood that a person with mental illness might feel. It says nothing and everything all at once: it is confused, unclear, scattered. It's navigating through life in circles, explains Nolton Lake.
Nolton Lake has a deep love for India. Sea Of Mangoes he describes feelings of happiness and freedom which evoke the country he lived in for several months. If I were to die tomorrow, I would want to eat a mango from India before I leave this world. It is one of the best things I have ever tasted. I have traveled a lot in my life, I have walked a lot, but this country has always kept me crazy. Crazy with the desire to see the world, crazy in my creativity. And of course, my beloved Indian sitar comes from there
The instrumental Unification is a musical metaphor. The song is a mixture of Latin rhythms, African percussion, Western acoustic guitar, Australian didgeridoo, and Indian sitar. The desire to bring people together, regardless of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation... no matter who a human being chooses to be, we all deserve to be part of a symbiotic whole, like the instruments in this song.
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Peace After War (extrait)
Sea Of Mangoes (extrait)
Unification (extrait)
The Man That Goes Too Far (extrait)
Over The Mountains (extrait)
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