Ed O’Brien embraces fringe phenomena and unexplainable experiences as part of his healing journey. He connects “magic” to music-making, describing music as something that comes through him rather than from accumulated study. His second solo album, Blue Morpho, released May 22, is paired with a short film created during a period of personal challenge. The project draws on his time in Brazil, where he encountered an iridescent blue butterfly that symbolizes metamorphosis. During the COVID shutdown in 2020, he fell into a deep depression and found solace in music and nature, including daily walks in Wales that sparked spiritual awakening. The film follows him through woods, water, lakes, and the night sky.
"“I am drawn to phenomena that are on the fringes and things you can't explain,” he told Outside on a call from London. “I believe in magic. It's inherent to music-making. Music doesn't come from studied, accumulated knowledge. It comes through you.”"
"Blue Morpho is named for the iridescent blue butterfly O'Brien encountered while living in Brazil with his family in the early 2010s. Like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, O'Brien underwent his own metamorphosis; a sort of creative reinvention born from a place of darkness. In April 2020, amidst the COVID pandemic shutdown, O'Brien fell into a deep depression, or what he calls, “my dark night of the soul.”"
"“This land is like my cathedral,” he says in the ten-minute film, which premieres on YouTube June 3. The film, which is narrated by O'Brien and set to the soundtrack of Blue Morpho, follows the musician as he wanders through the woods, dips his hands in the cool water of a river, looks out at a lake, and gazes at the night sky. Most of the footage was shot on the grounds of his home or nearby."
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