New Video: Christopher Coleman & The Great Escape - ‘Paloona’

Christopher Coleman & The Great Escape reveal transcendental single and video ‘Paloona’

Hobart singer songwriter Christopher Coleman returns with his eight-piece band The Great Escape on new single ‘Paloona’, the second offering from the outfit’s highly anticipated debut album The Great Tasmanian Escape. The cherished Aussie act is excited to also share the track’s visual counterpart in a new film directed by revered local filmmaker Ursula Woods, and reveal that their expansive LP will be with us this summer, landing Friday 25 February 2022.

‘Paloona’ chronicles the long-awaited second chapter from The Great Tasmanian Escape’s sprawling collection that centres around the semi-autobiographical protagonist, Jesse. The single acts as both a tangible and metaphysical escape from the character’s present reality, named after an isolated rural Tasmanian powerstation but presented as a pair of open arms.

Ursula’s video couples the track’s exponential crescendos, from quiet beginnings of Coleman laying in a field, to waterside camping, picturesque bike rides and solo road trips, in a sprawling escapist epic. Produced by Glenn Richards, ‘Paloona’ was performed by the late, great Mike Noga on drums, Stu Hollingsworth on bass and Kelly Ottaway on keys, with Christopher and Glenn leading both guitar and vocals in another captivating taste of Coleman’s undeniably rich storytelling.