Roger Waters Shares ‘Wait For Her’ Video

Last month Columbia Records issued Roger Waters’ new solo album Is This The Life We Really Want?. A video for the album track “Wait For Her” has been shared by the co-founding Pink Floyd bassist.

The newly posted video once again features the same flamenco dancer, actress/dancer Azzura, who appeared in the official music video for the Is This The Life We Really Want? song “The Last Refugee.” Waters’ film and creative director Sean Evans spoke to Rolling Stone, which premiered “Wait For You,” about the the pair of videos.

“[“The Last Refugee”] part called for a woman who was an experienced flamenco dancer and who could convincingly have a mother/daughter interaction with a child actress,” Evans said. “Azzura was perfect: she’s a trained dancer and when not dancing, she works with kids. She did such a fantastic job during the filming of ‘The Last Refugee,’ that Roger and I wanted to include her in ‘Wait for Her.’ The song has a yearning that we felt a band performance alone wouldn’t quite address.”

Waters was inspired by the poem “Lesson From the Kama Sutra (Wait for Her),” written by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish who died in 2008. The poem also influenced the “Wait For Her” video.

“When Roger wrote this song, his adaptation of the poem took on a sensual yet melancholy tone, and the video needed to represent that,” Evans said. “It needed to show femininity and sexuality but also needed to have an air of loss and pain, and longing for a time that was.”

Described by Evans as “companion pieces, [that] are not meant to live in linear time with each other,” watch the videos for “Wait For Her” and “The Last Refugee”: