Brian Might performs the guitar whereas making a music video in Teide Nationwide Park, Tenerife, Spain. Picture: Richard Grey/Duck Productions through Reuters
LONDON — Many years after learning the skies above the Canary Islands for his PhD in astrophysics, Queen guitarist Brian Might has returned to movie his Spanish singing debut “Otro Lugar,” a translated model of his previous track “One other World.”
The 74-year-old music star traveled to Tenerife, La Palma and El Hierro to document his new music video as a part of a remastered model of his 1998 solo album additionally referred to as “One other World.”
The brand new album options two variations of the track, in English and in Spanish, with a video for the Spanish model launched on Friday.
“It’s magical up there. You’re above the clouds the entire time,” Might advised Reuters of Tenerife’s Teide Observatory, which he first visited in 1970 whereas learning for his PhD. “They name it the ocean of clouds… And to me, it’s the closest to heaven I can ever be.”
Might labored with a good friend to translate the track, his first totally in Spanish. He described it as romantic and “about attempting to succeed in a spot the place the world is best run.”
“We shot each variations… and the Spanish model got here out significantly better,” Might stated. “It flowed from me very simply.”
Might, who shot to world fame with Queen, stated he re-released “One other World,” his second solo album, to succeed in new audiences. He re-issued his 1992 debut solo album “Again to the Mild” final yr.
“I really feel I put my coronary heart and soul into these two albums… and none of it’s been obtainable to the brand new technology for years and years as you may’t get it on Spotify or Apple Music or no matter YouTube… so I felt I wished to be represented,” he stated.
“I additionally suppose it’s very related… I really feel if I used to be making an album now, I’d make it precisely like this,” he added. “I might have the identical issues in my coronary heart, extra so now due to the horrible state the world is in in the intervening time.”
A brand new, official video of the unique track in english was additionally launched in Might’s official YouTube channel final week.
Later this month, Might will embark on a United Kingdom and European Queen + Adam Lambert Rhapsody Tour, which was twice postponed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
“It’s like type of having your legs reduce off in the event you’re a performer when you may’t get on the market and do what you do,” Might stated. “So for us, it will likely be… a stupendous second in time once we can resume the stuff that we meant to be doing.” JB
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