WL//WH Video Of The Day: TOM RADAR & DYLAN PHOENIX “The Man With White Wings” (Official Music Video)

WL//WH Video Of The Day TOM RADAR & DYLAN PHOENIX

A special joint project between the German Dark Wave/Electronica/Synth Pop artist Tom Radar (vocals, guitar, lyrics) and the Italian Gothic/Hard Rock artist and producer Dylan Phoenix (music, choir) came to life in 2024 specifically to build on the lyrics and guitar chords established by Dylan for “The Man With White Wings.”

The song, a journey through shadows and grace, comes with an Official Music Video to further enhance the poetic storytelling and evocative darkwave sound.

“The Man with the White Wings” is a modern allegory. Tom used an allegory to convey complex meanings through symbolic figures, actions, images or more abstract concepts such as „beauty”, „independence“, „vulnerability“, „decay” or “death”. The man in the song is a synonym for planet Earth and the creatures that live on it. Both have suffered a lot in recent years and time has left its mark. In the end, the god of death, Thatanos, takes the man into his kingdom and the man surrenders to his fate.

A wistful, chilling piano intro leads into a dire, lush, slow-swirling realm built on a stirring river of crisp skipping beats and heavy tremoring bass lines over which hover warm melancholic string swathes and icy dimly sparkling synth strains, woven with intervals of passionate glistening melodies, to surround deeply expressive, emotional vocals and moving back-ups, with the pain, suffering, and tragic beauty felt by observing “The Man With White Wings.”

The Official Music Video creates a timeless supernatural world by blending amazing scenes of nature with archetypal imagery and people wearing life-like angel wings to bring forth the epic good vs evil theme of the soundtrack. It is interesting to inspect the scenes of the main character as they are inverted using negative light photography and also appear to be set in an urban decay environment, evoking a sort of modern Luciferian vision.

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