Hayden Pedigo – “Letting Go”
Texas musician Hayden Pedigo just announced a new record, Letting Go, to be released 9/24 via Mexican Summer. The title track pairs Pedigo’s signature intricate finger-picking with ambient synth, bass, field recordings, and pedal steel courtesy of Luke Schneider. Pedigo and recording engineer/producer/arranger Andrew Weathers are both adept at creating sonic landscapes very much interdependently entwined with their surroundings. No doubt Letting Go will be lush, evocative, and timeless.
“My good friends Rocco and Gilles pitched the idea of making a video around the character on the front cover of the album to kind of show the stranger side of my personality usually on display on my Instagram account,” explains Pedigo. “They took this concept of a weirdo/outsider in the Texas panhandle feeling alienated/different, and blended it through this strange angelic lens.”
Directors Rocco and Gilles add: “The ‘Letting Go’ music video concept sought to find a balance between the playful and inventive world of Hayden’s countless online personas, and the deep sincerity and beauty in the music he creates. What would happen if you took one of his comic characters from Instagram and entered its world, treating it with the same careful respect with which the album was made? We drove out to Lubbock, Texas, from Los Angeles in the same white Jeep used in the video, with this idea and a 16mm camera.”
