VanWyck - Nightflyer (Allison Russell)

VanWyck played a cover of 'Nightflyer' by Allison Russell for The Influences. “It’s one of those songs that has everything in it. It is partly based on an ancient text The Thunder, Perfect Mind, in which a female divine voice speaks. A mysterious text in which paradoxes are always spoken, I think also in an attempt to encompass everything, to oversee the whole of existence, with good and evil.” “Russell has portrayed that beautifully, she describes on the one hand the trauma that happened to her as a child and also how she has transcended it. So you carry all those things within you, the evil and the good, the powerful and the helpless. By embracing all that, you can move on. Not running away from the pain, but looking the beast in the mouth, so to speak. And then dance to it with pleasure.” Filmed & edited by Matthijs van der Ven. Audio recorded & mixed by Matthijs van der Ven. www.theinfluences.com