{"id":42473,"date":"2018-02-19T16:28:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T14:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/premiere-thornatos-new-music-video-connects-nyc-and-ghana-through-a-magical-phone\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:37:58","slug":"premiere-thornatos-new-music-video-connects-nyc-and-ghana-through-a-magical-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/premiere-thornatos-new-music-video-connects-nyc-and-ghana-through-a-magical-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Premiere: Thornato&#8217;s new music video connects NYC and Ghana through a magical phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8FGC8HZJnWw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Hotline dancing.<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">At this moment in time, Global Bass is a bubbling music scene where producers and DJ from\u00a0LA, Bogota, New York, Austin, San Francisco and Montreal are like a little family. Airplane tickets and the internet serve to connect producers and artists in every imaginable combination spanning Africa, America, Europe, India, South America and the Caribbean, allowing for the birth of new forms of collaboration.\u00a0Thor Partridge aka Thornato\u00a0takes part of this tropical music moonsoon &#8211; a fabric of emerging cultural trends in a globally-connected 21st century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Thornato&#8217;s new\u00a0music video is the perfect exemple.\u00a0&#8216;Back It Up&#8217; features the singer Zongo Abongo and the dancer Soraya Lundy. Filmed on the streets of Brooklyn and Accra, Ghana, the video connects the locations through music, dance, and a magical orange phone.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Thornato says \u201cMy inspiration for the song was 90\u2019s dancehall, Afro-pop, Champeta and Dembow, We wanted to make an uplifting song for the dance-floor that feels nostalgic. I met Zongo through The Busy Twist who had featured him on a remix they did for me off last album Bennu.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The director\u00a0Justin Conte perfectly caught this idea of today music movements:\u00a0\u201cThe music was the inspiration from the get go. It manifested colorful visions of dance, sunshine, and community. From there, we wanted to illustrate how simply (yet powerfully) bright vibes can beam around the world. No matter age, race, gender, culture, etc&#8230; Music moves and connects us ALL.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Thornato&#8217;s new EP&#8217;s arrives February 23\u00a0via\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com\/album\/back-it-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wonderwheel Recordings<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11843\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Thornato-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Thornato-2.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Thornato-2-759x542.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Thornato-2-1010x721.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Thornato-2-661x472.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Thornato-2-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Thornato-2-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hotline dancing. At this moment in time, Global Bass is a bubbling music scene where producers and DJ from\u00a0LA, Bogota, New York, Austin, San Francisco and Montreal are like a little family. 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