Brand new ANA TIJOUX video shot in Medellin (via OkayPlayer)!
What do you get when one of Latin America’s top MCs links up with one of the world’s best photographers/videographers and take them to the greatest city on Earth (no we are not biased)? You get this brand new video from Chilean-French MC Ana Tijoux, shot by B+ (Mochilla) in Medellin, Colombia!
Apparently the video was shot while Ana was in Medellin recording in the infamous Discos Fuentes studio for the stunning Ondatrópica project put together by Quantic and Frente Cumbiero. Ana and B+ travelled to the Comuna 13 community where Hip-Hop is used as a tool to educate and empower the impoverished and marginalized youth of their community.
Ana Tijoux tells Okayplayer:
“On my last morning there, B+ and I woke up extremely early with the idea to film what was his favorite song from my new album. We didn’t really know what we were going to do, we just walked through the streets and he took the camera and filmed. We had been invited by some community organizers in Comuna 13 to get to know their barrio and a few things outside of the usual tourist routes, and we took the metro to its end to see what was going on,”
“There, amongst the beautiful people, the organization doing its terrific work, and the reality of life in the barrios of Colombia, we took to the skies with our guide on the MetroCable to see the entirety of this isolated neighborhood. We had been looking for something simple to film, and here we had it, the absolute beauty of the views over the hills that make up Medellin, with all of the humanity of Comuna 13 below.”
Watch Ana Tijoux ascend into the mountains of Medellin while her laid back flow gently drifts amongst the clouds. The track ‘Volver’ is off her second album ‘La Bala’ which is available on iTunes.