Alexandra Alden - Wild Honey & Thyme | An Eternal Session

The recording and meeting with Alexandra has been something we've been talking about for a few years actually, and this May 2023 we finally made it happen. It felt just right it record this song on the old fortress in Leiden. It can be a bit crowded in this popular spot in Leiden but luckily we went there after the Dutch lunchtime had passed (12h00 till 13h00).. Below you can find some more background regarding 'Wild Honey & Thyme' and about Alexandra herself. This is the first of four recordings we made that day, and we can't wait to show them all. Alexandra: ''The titular song of my album, Wild Honey & Thyme, discusses the conflict in modern Maltese society between holding on to our roots and the drive towards personal profit. I was frustrated by how the landscape of Malta and Gozo is being consumed by buildings, litter and all sorts of pollution. Having been studying in the Netherlands while reading about overdevelopment in the news was getting me down, it made me feel helpless and like I couldn't do anything. So the only way to vent the frustration was to write a song about it. On the world stage, we are losing touch with nature. We are overvaluing the manufactured instead of adapting and evolving with the natural. We see nature as something separate from ourselves rather than as an extension of ourselves. If we feed our bodies junk then it will look like junk and feel like junk. Wild Honey & Thyme depicts the duality and contradiction of a world of luxury and a natural world in decline, framed in our local context. If we cannot protect our own inheritance, and a future for our children, then for what are we really living, except our bubbles?'' Recorded at de Burcht van Leiden, The Netherlands, Europe. Music performed & written by: Alexandra Alden Directed by: Charles Rommens For over 5 years we have been filming immersive music performances. We strive to create unique recordings where we always look for a suitable location to the music.