‘Game Of Love’ is the latest single by local electronic act Dave Scott (The Kiffness) to take over the airwaves. The track comes off the just-released record ‘Soul Safari’ and is easily one of the standout tracks on the album. The song is a beautiful piece of work so, naturally, it needed a complimentary video – and boy, did he deliver!
The song was written as a sketch by Raiven Hunter, who features on the song, back in February 2016 at Popsicle Studios, after the studio invested in a brand new microphone which needed to be tested. The inspiration for the song came as a stream-of-consciousness – written in 20 minutes – and based on the feelings that one has for someone whom they once loved, but no longer do. In Russian, the word for it is ‘razbliuto’. It wasn’t until a year later that the song resurfaced from a dusty hard-drive, only to be discovered by Dave who took the recording session and produced it into a pop duet ft. Gemma Griffiths, written to a deep house palette.
“’Game Of Love’ is about the differing stages of a relationship between two people, and the different ways in which love is manifested throughout the process. It’s also about the differing perspectives that two people have on their own relationship,” Raiven tells us.
The Kiffness have been known to create beautiful visuals to accompany their songs and the just-released video for ‘Game Of Love’ is no exception. The video was shot in Cape Town, during early August 2017 and was directed by Daniel Marcos and produced by Christy Marcos. “The concept of a duality between two people is inherent in the song, so we worked from there. We knew that the track has to be expressive, and that dance would help exemplify that notion,” Dave explains. “Daniel and Christy did a great job of bringing our idea out into the neon tainted streets of the city, thereby being able to work with our core feature idea of ‘the fire dance’ which is the organic embodiment of release and expression, and where our video reaches it’s crescendo.”
The video features some beautiful choreography and some beautiful rooftop scenes. A highlight is definitely the dance sequence where the dancers are on fire. It’s simple, yet striking and could earn The Kiffness their second South African Music Awards nomination for ‘Best Music Video’.
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