NEWS: TRAIN Partners with SoulPancake for Release of 'GIVE IT ALL' Music Video

May 19, 2015  •  Leave a Comment

 

(Los Angeles, Calif.) May 19, 2015—Grammy award-winning band Train has partnered with SoulPancake for the release of their new music video “Give It All,” premiering today exclusively on USAToday.com. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, the video draws attention to teen suicide and is serving as a call-to-action for viewers to help prevent more lives from ending too soon.

 

'Give It All’ is an important song to me,” says Train frontman Pat Monahan. “The song is about the deep losses in my life, as most of us have also experienced.” He continues, “When we approached SoulPancake about producing this project, they instantly got what we were trying to do. We all want to make this not just another music video, but one that can inspire and empower people.

 

The dancers, Izzy and Ashleigh, are two teenagers who endure the struggles as millions of others their age.  It's heartbreaking to think that so many will view their situation as hopeless with no faith that life can change and shine bright again. With the help of SoulPancake, we want to be a voice for those who are struggling, to those who have pressed through and those who are healing.

 

Directed by SoulPancake’s Bayan Joonam, and Chris Koser serving as Director of Photography and shot in Seattle, Wash., the video features two teenage dancers Israel "Izzy" Harris (16) and Ashleigh Mitchell (17) and together they merge the beauty of dance and art together to deliver a powerful message about loss, healing and letting go. The lotus flower represents the idea of something beautiful and pure rising from murky waters. Bringing attention to the fact that suicide is the third leading cause of deaths for 15-24 year olds according to HealthyChildren.org, the dancers perform a captivating contemporary dance number choreographed by Tani Ohashi and Kelly Bahr.

 

“Dance is a powerful medium, it is able to express emotions where words fall short,” explains Joonam. “to me, this is a video about dealing with the loss of a loved one.  The video tells a story of a relationship that is abruptly ended by a situation beyond the main character’s control.  While he is both tortured and inspired by her, the only way for him to finally move on is to create something tangible out of those memories.”

 

“Give It All” is featured on Train’s latest album Bulletproof Picasso available nationwide. Fans can come see Train perform the new single live on the Picasso At The Wheel tour with special guests The Fray and Matt Nathanson.  The 40+ city tour begins Friday, May 21 at the Sleep Train Amphitheatre in Sacramento, CA and will conclude in Quincy, WA on July 25 at the Gorge Amphitheatre. For the full list of Picasso At The Wheel tour dates, please visit http://savemesanfrancisco.com/tour.

 

SoulPancake is actor Rainn Wilson's media and production company that creates entertaining, inspiring content about the human experience. Its signature style of content blends emotional, thought-provoking storytelling with energetic, quirky visuals. SoulPancake has built large, loyal, socially conscience Millennial audiences across multiple platforms including its Emmy Award-winning television division; Webby Award-winning premium YouTube channel (youtube.com/soulpancake) with nearly 1.5 million subscribers; and a first-rate creative agency services team that has worked with international brands such as Nestle, Disney, and the United Nations. Collectively, SoulPancake’s social cause integrations and campaigns have helped to raise more than $2 million for charities such as cancer research, provide more than 3 million meals to the hungry, and activate more than 1 million people to help the homeless.

 

For more information on Train and to purchase “Give It All” please go to http://savemesanfrancisco.com/. To keep up with the latest on SoulPancake, visit www.soulpancake.com.

 

About Train: Bulletproof Picasso – the band’s 7th studio album – debuted at #5 on the Billboard Top 200 upon its September 16, 2014 debut and earned rave reviews. USA Today’s Elysa Gardner remarks that “the best tracks… are the driving and high-spirited ones, where Pat Monahan’s sweet, keening tenor – evoking cative here of a Wings-era Paul McCartney – rides meaty but crisply percussive arrangements” and Billboard’s Richard Bienstock says the band’s “wholehearted embrace of pop has unshackled Train, allowing it to revel in anything-goes stylistic tourism” that all feels “oddly cohesive, with the band’s rocker roots showing an impressive pliability to move within pop’s boundaries.”

 

Train has successfully traveled the nearly-unnavigable path of a contemporary, hit-making rock band while keeping their heads. The climb to the top began in San Francisco in 1994. The original 5-member band tenaciously built a loyal following, leading up to their own self-titled debut album, released by Columbia in 1998.  The tumbling wordplay of “Meet Virginia” gave them their first unlikely radio hit, with 2001’s Drops Of Jupiter garnering multi-platinum status thanks to the double-Grammy winning title song that spent 10 months in the Top 40.  In their typical ‘you-gotta’-nail-it-down-motherfucker’ style, the quixotic song snared the Best Rock Song trophy by beating out Coldplay and two U2 songs.

 

The group won another Grammy in 2011 for their global hit “Hey Soul Sister,” the #1 best-selling smash and most downloaded single of 2010, from their multi-platinum album Save Me, San Francisco.  Their most recent album, 2012’s California 37 launched the hit “Drive By,” which reached the Top 10 in 13 countries.  They’ve sold more than 10 million albums worldwide, more than 30 million tracks, with multiple platinum/gold citations, including 3 Grammy Awards, 2 Billboard Music Awards and dozens of other honors. Additionally, Train's award-winning Save Me, San Francisco Wine Co. has recently released their 6th varietal, 'Bulletproof Picasso' sauvignon blanc. Proceeds from the wine support Family House, a San Francisco charity that supports families of children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.

 

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