Hot Press is thrilled to premiere the video for the gorgeous new Eric Eckhart single, ‘When I Was A Girl’, which was shot on and around Dalkey Island.
It’s from his Luminous album, which is out this week and is very much an all killer, no filler affair.
The record documents what has been a tumultuous time in the West Virginian’s life.
“The songs that make up Luminous were written in the time between the home birth of my second child and the death of my parents not long after and reflect the extremes of life and death, darkness and light, love, hate and forgiveness, peace and war – all of which are part of our ever more polarised world we live in today,” he reflects. “For the first time, I took full artistic control by playing most of the instruments myself as well as recording alone, often in one take in that magical moment when the song was just written and played through for the first time in all its rawness and wonder.
“I set myself a goal for Luminous – to create the space to allow myself to channel the purest, truest songs that I possibly can with no filter or need to please anyone but my artistic self. I am deeply proud of these eleven songs and now they belong to you.”
Resident for a chunk of time in Dublin – we’ve claimed him as one of our own! – Eric is currently based in Berlin where he recorded Luminous in a World War II bunker (as you do), and will be chatting to Hot Press in an upcoming issue.