Sourcing inspiration from the trip-hop genre, the early, experimental days of post-punk, and the atmospheric noise collages of artists like Puce Mary, ‘Hallowed is the Earth’ is a track that grieves a wounded world deemed as a lost cause by its creator.

The accompanying video reflects the track’s chaotic descent into the reflections of a tormented goddess figure, lamenting what humanity has done to itself and the natural world. The image concepts came from Lana Del Rabies (Sam An) and artist Louise Saafi and were brought to life by director, cinematographer and editor M.Dean Bridges. With co-direction and art direction by Lana Del Rabies and additional shots provided by Saafi, fragmented images of the land, water, and different incarnations of this figure are composed into a cyclical experience of destruction and control.

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The album begins with the ominous scorn of the all-knowing, intangible creator in ‘Prayers of Consequence,’ with the lyric “You don’t know, what I’ll show,” coming in after the thundering kick of hypnotic, ritualistic drums and a delicate looped piano sample over a deep bass drone. The song moves into a layered, rhythmic warning from many voices, about the consequences of brutality and apathy, and the saga of a deity grappling with a man-made apocalypse.

The accompanying video is a collaborative effort between 5 American artists residing the southwest to bring the mystical and allegorical imagery of the song to life. Louise Saafi, Adam Cooper-Terán, Abraham Cooper, and M. Dean Bridges all collaborated to film various rituals performed by Lana Del Rabies over a span of 2 years in different landscapes of Arizona. A majority of the imagery was conceived between Sam An (Lana Del Rabies) and Louise Saafi in 2021 to depict and embody the multifaceted “Mother” creator figure that narrates STREGA BEATA. All of the artists involved collaborated to find environments that would be the setting of these rituals and shot their perspective of the events. These rituals are intended to transmute grief around violence and loss, in and of the natural world. The final product is a collaborative phantasmal vision between An and Cooper-Terán’s editing.

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STREGA BEATA:

1. Prayers of Consequence
2. A Plague
3. Master
4. Mother
5. Grace The Teacher
6. Mourning
7. Hallowed is the Earth
8. Reckoning
9. Apocalypse Fatigue
10. Forgive 

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