On October 17, Elis Floreen released her single ‘Nimbus’. The track reveals the storm she carries within. Anger, powerlessness and a longing for justice, translated into music that feels both intimate and overwhelming. For the video, she set out to find a place where that inner storm could also resonate in the landscape.
She returned to Essaouira, the ancient and vibrant city on Morocco’s Atlantic coast. At the age of twenty, she travelled there for the first time. An experience that felt like a transition into adulthood, with the stormy shores leaving a lasting imprint. Years later, when writing ‘Nimbus,’ she imagined the story unfolding in a place much like Essaouira. So together with two friends, armed with nothing but a backpack and a camera, she set out to capture the spirit of the song.
In just a few days, they immersed themselves in the people, the cats, the ocean, the food and the sand. It turned out to be the perfect setting: the wild sea and dark clouds became the embodiment of ‘Nimbus’. The journey was beautiful but also emotionally intense. Time and budget constraints tested their artistic vision, and along the way they encountered hundreds of stray animals. Cats, dogs and horses all greeting them with kindness. Leaving them behind was heartbreaking, yet they were deeply moved by the way the local community cares for them.
Elis Floreen will never forget the white horse in a green valley, the feeling of absolute freedom while running with stray dogs on the beach at sunset, or the stray cat coming to say goodbye at the gate in the airport. Together with her friends, she feels eternal gratitude for the people of Essaouira, and hopes that the video for ‘Nimbus’ carries a fragment of that same magic.