Berlin-Based Iranian Artist Mentrix Releases Atmospheric Video for New Single ‘Nature’

Hot on the heels of unleashing her debut LP, My Enemy, My Love, in January, Samar Rad, aka Iranian multi-instrumentalist and composer, Mentrix, has hit the road and headed for scenic Kavir-e-Lut desert in eastern Iran for the video for the album’s second single, ‘Nature’.

Every bit as atmospheric and spiritual as the Sufi-inspired track, the video sees the Berlin-based artist use the mountainous landscape as her stage, as seemingly unconstructed, instinctive body movements make for a choreography that sees the artist act as some sort-of crazed conductor, controlling elements that mere mortals cannot see.

Other standout scenes see Rad lead a harem of women, clad in traditional Middle Eastern garb, standing and a walking in formation across a dry, and later on, dancing what might be most accurately compared to a rain dance. “Dancing for the body is like rain is for the desert,” reads the video’s description. “It might survive without it but it longs for it always; it is nature.”

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