A musician from Macclesfield has released a powerful new song, with a video shot in the Southeast Asian countryside.

Tarek Musa, who goes by the name Dead Nature, is releasing his debut solo album on July 23. Mid-tempo reflective rock song Rivers is the fourth single.

Musa is an ex-pupil of Macclesfield's Fallibroome Academy on Priory Lane. He has had a prolific career since the dissolution of the Macclesfield band Spring King, where he played drums.

The award winning producer has worked with indie bands The Big Moon to Circa Waves. He also remixes songs, as well as songwriting his own music for Dead Nature.

Previous singles attracted the attention of Jools Holland, along with Steve Lamacq of BBC Radio 6 Music.

Dead Nature was recently featured as the "Next Wave" artist on Jack Saunders' BBC Radio 1 show.

The Macclesfield musician's latest effort comes with a video shot in the Malaysian countryside.

The artist had this to say about Rivers:

"Rivers was one of the very first tracks I wrote around the age of 21," he said.

"I had never fully delved into music composition at that point, but what came from that era really helped ground me as a songwriter.

"The goal was to write a love song that had an urgency to it, just like the passing of youth and ever changing relationships.

"Just like the nature of our ever evolving ecosystem, love can be a sink or swim battle that is affected by its surroundings, cause and effect."

The music video for Rivers was directed by Amani Azlin, from Kuala Lumpur.

The term 'drowning in love' was the foundation for the concept behind the music video. You can view it at the top of this article.

"Amani has worked on some incredible projects in the past, and it was such a pleasure having her onboard for Rivers," added the Macclesfield musician.

Rivers follows the multi-coloured, sky-high indie-pop dramatics of recent singles Red Clouds, Hurricane and Falling Down, through which he wrote about innocence, euphoria, and finding stability in a world at war with itself.

Musa's talent for heavyweight pop songwriting is as honest and sentimental as is it is fizzing with energy.

Rivers is taken from the album Watch Me Break Apart. It is released on July 23.

Self-releasing on his own terms through his Dead Nature label, it is entirely Tarek-made as he injects scuzzy garage-rock with the soul of great American songwriters from his personal playlists; Springsteen, Fleet Foxes and Adam Granduciel's The War On Drugs are influences.

You can pre-order the album from the talented Maxonian here.

You can view the tracklisting, and listen to the tracks released thus far on the link below:

1. Watch Me Break Apart
2. Hurricane
3. 50 Foot Wall
4. Borrowed Heart
5. Falling Down
6. Red Clouds
7. Rivers
8. Nothing Is Gonna Change
9. Ladlands

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