Emancipator "Minor Cause" Official Music Video

The official music video "Minor Cause" directed by Ben Moon. emancipatormusic.com
A glimpse behind the scenes: • Behind the scenes: Ema...
From the third Emancipator album "Dusk to Dawn" on Loci Records.
Director: Ben Moon benmoon.com
Producer: Jainee Dial
Cinematography: Skip Armstrong & Thatcher Bean
Assistant Camera & Locations: Hayden Peters
Aerial Photography: Brian Dalrymple & Craig Gruenewald
Editor: Page Stephenson

[@WGLKM]

This guy wrote his first Emancipator album when he was 19. What a talented guy.

[@jel018]

Without a doubt, one of the most beautiful songs I have heard in my entire life. Why don't more people love this kind of music, I wonder.

[@noneya9035]

Cuz ya can’t twerk to it.

[@suzis4566]

because it's for us, not them

[@Simonatman]

Beautiful ❤️👌

[@beverlyfaul9064]

This music touches your heart and soul. A place that has been taught out of us as we grew up as children... it's beautiful..

[@dprice81]

I have 5 of their albums on vinyl. Music you can feel.

[@therealsabs]

My phone's ringtone for years now... Incredibly perfect!

[@Andresuperawesome]

i tried writing an adequate comment for 30 min and nothing i wrote could describe the feeling this song gives me

[@_4lec]

I know EXACTLY how that feels

[@solarseraph]

I was just thinking about this - the song doesn't have any lyrics, so it doesn't tell a story. It's appropriate that the video is a conglomerate of imagery without any real story - it doesn't make you think, just maybe matches what you feel.

[@11cacoo]

This music made me human.

[@mr.e0311]

He didn't use words either. Music is so much better than words.

[@psychee1]

Yeah... There are so many adjectives one could use to describe it but... Wow. That's what this song is to me, no other way to put it, just Wow.

[@frankk89]

This songs provokes in me a strange sensation, as if suddenly I remember how I have to be grateful for the life I'm living.

[@bobbyclem2801]

Minor cause and Anthem are the two most hauntingly beautiful.and addictive songs I have ever heard.

[@jevhg7779]

Try Labyrinth

[@evansinclair4114]

Nevergreen and Smoke Signals

[@ledgengoad6214]

This. This is what keeps me going

[@Hydrolysate]

This is the stuff of legends. Of dreams. Of prophecies. This is the sound our world yearns for, day in and day out, one unifying musical principle set to the tune of each and every mind that it flows through. This is Emancipator.

[@MrAndersonsArchaicHealth]

I've listened to this song steady for the past 5-6 years of my life. Emancipator never fails.

[@DontComeBack.]

That’s cool! 🥺

[@tapatapaz]

same

[@KH-pd2bv]

Me too. Still a joy every time

[@user-he8rl4sm3k]

Dude me too, this song has been in my life for about 10 years, I NEVER forget about it and find myself returning to it. Incredible isn't it? I get so emotional about it sometimes, I was 20 when it released, and I reflect on the last decade every time this song plays

[@detectiveyoshi]

Same.. also been in my life for atleast 10 years and still one of my fav artist 😭 it’s so touching 💗

[@bgc200]

How can a song with no lyrics or vocals still stirr so many emotions?

[@Vlad-eh4oc]

that's 'cause it's calling music

[@jel018]

That's Minor Cause it's calling music

[@ComfortablyMuffin]

I've no clue what this 'calling music' thing means but I like the sound of it. :)

[@chorthithian]

Genc007 vocals. what does that mean? is it the sounds that come out of somebody's vocal box? is it the interpreted sound waves that we like to call language? however you define it, there are many , many things communicating to me in this piece. the video alone says so many things. add on top of it the sounds, a mixture of organic, string, choral smoothness and sparkling percussion, all of it brings upon me a great buffet of juxtapositions and flavors that may as well speak as much as words do

[@corey333p]

I say there are vocals, but no lyrics. In any case, amazing piece of music!

[@WanNotJuan]

You ask “why?” But what’s really happening is your spirit is getting touched.

[@alegonzalez1564]

Now i know why

[@BEEFBRSKT]

i think this may be the most perfect tune ever made

[@headphonehuman]

It's hard to describe the feeling this song causes. At the same time I get chills and then burst suddenly into tears with no reason whatsoever, feel this weird nostalgia and melancholy - and then I want to embrace the beauty of the world and show how grateful I am for the life I've been given. It's not many songs that cause this amount of emotion. This is breathtaking.

[@miriamantoli373]

This song feels like a journey...

[@XDrSinusX]

makes you think of a life that you never had :)

[@shkafec]

I feel the exact same way after listening to this masterpiece... Mesmerizing!

[@jonnyapplesead737]

I think it helps us let something out. Its helping you heal yourself.

[@farahshah8878]

this is exactly how i feel

[@Ailtheal]

This is my absolute favorite song in the entire world. I trudged through so much mud at Wakarusa to see them. Fantastic. Would do it again a million times.

[@user-ne9vj7yo7w]

Согласен. Души у всех одинаковые.

[@Ame08282]

Cette musique me donne des frissons... ❤

[@naoboyz8259]

Music with no lyrics tells the most touching Stories❤️

[@erawriter1651]

I remember back in 2013 when this song only had 700,00 views. I was blessed to find it back then and am so happy many more have heard its beauty as well.

[@miraskdirbaev8147]

Hello how are you?my name is Miras and l am from Kazakhstan

[@erawriter1651]

@@miraskdirbaev8147 Hello Miras. I'm from Denver Colorado. I'm doing great! Hope you are also. Peace and Light.

[@idunnainnit]

Almost a year since its release, and I'm still shutting out the demons of the day with this breath-taking track. Love love love Emancipator.

[@Nikolayski1337]

This song feels like ascending above my weaknesses and troubles and discovering a brand new way of living.

[@alenaxp]

Emancipators music instantly effects my mood. Thank you for making such a beautiful music Sir.

[@scottscheerhoorn4398]

wonderful music to listen to

[@scottscheerhoorn4398]

wonderful music to listen to

[@maskedbusiness2080]

perfectly descirbed

[@youngfamas5563]

Sauce kzbin.info/www/bejne/ioSVaoZ9jLKtbrc

[@telepatin40]

@@scottscheerhoorn4398 Vvvvvla

[@codysatornino8162]

Wrote to this instrumental when I went through PTSD (saw two brothers shot execution style) and this piece of music saved me a LOT of pain. "You cannot change what you refuse to confront" One week after the fourth of July torment arrived... now I don't normally cry but this story of mine sits sorely inside.. I took a week, I took a month, shit! I took till it manifested almost becoming anorexic and defected feelin' sorry in life 'fore I could speak about this journey I ride.. every morning arrives and mourning arises, I got shotgun in this foreigning mind.. I couldn't sleep and would vomit in fights, I wouldn't breathe, I wouldn't eat cos I couldn't dream and hear horrors at night.. quick jolts of reaction out of impulsive attacks in defense in madness was like cries for help inside a cell I was forced in to die.. when it triggers, the world goes blank..I black out and see their murder inked then I pull a mask down thwarting demise.. I'd scratch till tissue exposed - sitting alone - as it seemed I was sipping through holes just to breathe - gripping a bowl - fingers of souls're a sword in my side, a grip on my bones, crippling blows, one touch'll leave me obliterated, stiff in the cold... Scared? Yes.. always the first to blink.. hard time flows like blindfolds as eyes sew minds blown till these words will brink.. this curse'll bring many heart aches and dark days but I'll never give up on this tethering grudge cos i'm on the verge of it.. like a birds plummet... *BANG * BANG* I yell "STOP THE CAR!" and "GET DOWN", tires screech and I step out only to see they robbed their hearts and sped out.. wreckage and blessings - the immediate thoughts - it's weird knowing it was me he last saw - did he know I helped out? sound barriers have broken, I'm mad now and I'm focused, I know fireworks don't echo and its what I heard that was hopeless, I see him bleeding from a hole in his throat, choking, lookin like he's holding a rope tryna climb it but he's slippin' and fallin'... trying to get to his baby brother muttering "mother im sorry", I stutter on heartbeats on the phone with 911 grippin his collar.. his gurgling, murmuring slows, I'm witness to a murder scene, the first to see the third degree, smelling eternal dreams; and done.. kept askin if he accepted Jesus just to help ease it maybe help him see it, didn't think death lingered after a soul has released 'em.. I felt it, the cold chill of a life being taken that didn't want to leave, saw God first hand and he wasn't even there.. I got to see it... *.....................* From the moment my eyes open.. my lifes focus is to over come what had happened, I tried my best to save them I know it.. I embraced in the moment, took a chance to control it, nothing worked but the fact that I tried made me realize the heroics.. I see eyes when im rollin back in my head, stress attacks till im dead it seems and I feel the back of my mind battlin' nerves and its always a fight till tragic has worsened and the black becomes curtains every waking second and im mad cos im hurtin', hurtin'... but nowadays from countless rage taking over my outer place i've learned to have hope and speak away with the words inside, findin' reasons of what I've learned in life, never sleep on opportunity, if it's in my reach I got to prove to me cos hard work defines, there's a beast on the leash but I dont fight it, it keeps me at peace and cries like a lion but keeps a reason to beat what im fightin.. this is just a piece of my PTSD that i'm writin'.... just another chapter of the Phoenix that's flyin...

[@maskedbusiness2080]

Woah

[@Ashutosh_Dahia]

Woa......

[@spacetimearchitect3318]

Goddamn man. I'm sorry you had to go through that. I hope you can find peace in all the madness because it's out there. I know you wrote this 2 years ago but still... I hope you read this. I hope your still out there.

[@c.j.thedude]

Wow.

[@ruthking5994]

Strong writing thanks for your courage xxxx

[@ElricMeln1]

Releases your mind from small things...

[@BULLTRONHERO]

This is especially amazing to me. The first Emancipator music I heard was the 'safe in the steep cliffs' album, and I would just listen to that album on repeat as I explored game trails in the vast forest near my house. There was very little sign of other people back there, and Emancipator's music made the journey, for lack of a better word, magical every time.

[@PoniesNSunshine]

"What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky..."

[@mazavron7974]

I think the guy in the video ate something rather delightful before beginning his mystical journey. Like; "This tree is absolutely amazing"

[@jokosi]

or he's just admiring the beauty of nature ^^

[@mazavron7974]

Joschii With the help of edibles supplies by nature of course. :D

[@0iGer0]

Dustin C the guy, actually is Doug, the Dj. Aka Emancipator :)

[@benkalios6191]

Minor Cause is my favorite song in front of all your albums. It makes me nostalgic and reminds me a period of my life. I sometimes have to switch this song because the sadness comes. But I could hear it all the time. Listened and listened again. Minor Cause = Beautiful, Natural, Posed, Nostalgic, Emotional, Subtle. Very good job Emancipator !

[@ipecac4634]

+Benjamin PAILLER Un frnaçais par ici? ;) Very nice sound indeed

[@benkalios6191]

+Lhika Emzeld ouais :-)

[@iraqiinsweden911]

exactly what I felt with this music

[@khaireddinebouras4523]

I'm in love with this masterpiece 😍

[@battle5bruno162]

Our lifetimes are just a tiny drop in the vast oceans of time, but to us it is EVERYTHING.

[@Narsuaq]

This is just magnificent on so many levels.

[@Eliseklapwijk]

One word: eargasm, so happy i could See him around the corner for free, whenever i listen this music i wanna ride my downhill bike, me my bike and emancipator is heaven on earth

[@JoetjeNick]

+Elise Klapwijk Best music ever, I was there too at Paard. I was there just...listening....I hope he'll come back soon.

[@Eliseklapwijk]

this coming february on a wednesday got the tickets already ;)

[@stereoo8885]

this makes me so nostalgic i always listened to emencipator when i was a kid cause my father always listened to it and today i remembered it again and searched for him this is so overwhealming

[@ronmattshort]

My son is only 4 but I hope that one day he has the same experience as you rediscovering this beautiful music. Much love.

[@nubianalchemist4797]

Most powerful song I have heard in my life! So enlightening.

[@RSuwak]

Bless you for posting this. Better than a cup of coffee in the morning.

[@mgunn9801]

+Rebekah Suwak Better WITH a cup of coffee in the morning!

[@DarthNihl312]

+Rebekah Suwak But not a cup of tea. :P ;)

[@CampCooperator]

Even better with an Cup of Irish Coffee in the morning on a free day. :)

[@danielgreen4747]

+Donar0208 Even better with a cup of coffee in the morning and a few tabs of LSD.

[@RSuwak]

hahah right on.

[@dimitrisatsikpasis1421]

What a poem..!!

[@gregfisher4147]

Mad respect for an who can make emotions with such powerful music.

[@wkurzona_zona]

Nie potrafię się rozstać..emancipator wyjdź z mojej głowy!. .. potrafię szukać, zawsze tu wyląduje... kocham te nuty. .🎵🎶🎧

[@aleksanderpszczola1182]

Najlepsze do pracy, bo nie ma wokali, które rozpraszają. Genialne. Mam jego całą dyskografię.

[@averyvolk3022]

I just can't believe something so beautiful could exist.

[@jeremyyarbro8749]

When his eyes are closed, he walks in the forest. When his eyes are open he walks upon the beach. What is the significance of the transition to red at the end? He blinks, and the change. Perhaps signifying that life happens in the blink of an eye? This video has powerful symbolism about life, death, and beyond.

[@BEEFBRSKT]

+Jeremy Yarbro and that there is minor cause for it ...could be onto something there

[@beardedmarshmallow5590]

Its the detail that the mind can achieve

[@dogsofemerica]

I can never get tired of this song

[@Ailtheal]

A song has never put me more at peace in my life. This will stick with me as the years continue to come and go, as I feel it has for so many past. I like to think of this as my song, but it can be ours together.

[@betahumanx]

I feel you, man

[@triinpalu5313]

Unbelievable this song is from 9 years ago. Beautiful!

[@TheSweetrocket]

This music and these scenes... Oh my God! Just bewitching!!.....

[@11cacoo]

Filled with bittersweet sorrow and nostalgia, a secret peaceful pasture in our minds filled with memories of times gone by, Loved ones past away and dreams buried with them. This song makes me cry.

[@piapatel1513]

this actually really makes u go thru the timeline of your life. the good n d bad ones.

[@Lydario]

This version sounds so much more rich and full of depth. Love it!

[@Mable00]

I am speechless...

[@UFUK_1997]

Best Music EVER I am listening this Music 25 hours per day

[@uygarcan7494]

Ugur can you make a 60 minute track of it? bu sarkinin 60 dakika versiyonunu yapabilirmisin?

[@michaelak.593]

been listening 24/7 to emancipator the last few weeks! ♥

[@EchoplexGhost]

I watch this video every day, now. This song speaks to me on a different level.

[@Woodrow-nw1pt]

I think I listen to this at least once a day. Everything about this track is superb, but the violin and percussion really hit me the most.

[@gurvin1987]

you can listen to this music a zillion times, you can never get bored out of it. It only soothes your soul & keep you calm all the time. 1 of the best music i ever heard all time.

[@iamupintheclouds]

It's impossible to watch or listen to this too many times. Every time is just as magical as the first.

[@RealityyBytes]

Some of the most amazing music I've come across in my 23 years of living are from Emancipator. What a melodic genius!

[@cameronm5597]

Emancipator is incredible live with the full band, blew our minds

[@mr.e0311]

Ive never seen him live with a full band!! I bet its a spectacle. Usually he stands in front of his computer and bobs his head while he adjusts his mixing board.

[@OkonkwoPlaysBass]

He also plays guitar

[@foxxrider250r]

With the full band i literally could not believe how awesome the show was ....amazed me. A life changing experience.

[@KrummyBrinkleJr.]

Live music with no vocals must be really hard since you cant cover up mistakes with a loud voice

[@rlesko56]

agreed

[@28GBlunt]

Great music producer of our generation

[@k_m_b_l]

This song just never gets old

[@mafiaismafia]

The video is so simple in idea yet so grand in effect. I feel so peaceful while watching it while the music enhances it. Very fine combo.

[@evoktive7320]

How does Emancipator create this transitions? You just can wonder how this different sounds can fit in the same song... It's amazing

[@jonpahba]

the video expresses exactly what I feel when I listen to the songs of emancipator, the contact with nature and the peace it brings me. thank you very much!

[@uhsting]

It's a rare gem to find some artist like this who produces orchestral pieces, apart from Hans Zimmer and Neil Davidge. This song is so relaxing and different with nowadays songs - heart-beating and exciting. I love this style and so do my teacher. Nice job, Emancipator!

[@omarquintanilla6135]

This song is that powerful that it sounds as if the Violin is singing / speaking to us the whole time. Emancipator you're one great musician that can create powerful music!!! I love "Wolf Drawn" so much too!!

[@mattflores3621]

This is such a good track.

[@LicoInk]

After six years i come here again to say thank you for this song. I'm lost in my life and need some time to relax. I just listen this song a couple of times and recharge my battery again for another day.

[@EsotericHighway]

eliellico everything will work itself out brother. Those periods of being lost are transition periods..

[@aquariusavatar5400]

Trust, Faith, Belief...LOVE

[@sharpcookiellc]

I was blown away when I found out he's (Doug Appling) is from Portland Oregon. I grew up there and I can tell you that if you are familiar with the northwest his music makes way more sense! At least it does to me. I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy. Portland is a very quirky town. It's a great place for an experimentalist recording artist to explore and try mixing genres. It's a very none-judgemental environment. His music really encapsulates all of these wonderful feelings of free thinking and self-exploration that Portland is known for.

[@sharpcookiellc]

Right on. Seattle is awesome. Use to do road trips there all the time.

[@NestiesForLife]

soldforfree Oregonian here! :)

[@sharpcookiellc]

yeah, you guys are pretty awesome ;)

[@templarexemplar35]

Vancouver BC

[@skaterjz67]

It's a dream of mine to road trip between Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver. SanFran is as far north in the U.S. as I've been. Hell, I'd even be up for a long trip from San Diego all the way up the Coast to B.C. Stunningly beautiful country!

[@blakemclaughlin183]

I don't believe ill be able to hold my tears of joy back this year when I hear this live in the forest with my lovely girlfriend in my arms and all the lovely people of the forest basking in a sound that is so touching it gives me the butterflies just thinking about it. Omg I can't wait

[@DavidthePerez]

Pure love...

[@mrdelerious2009]

Oh wow, speechless. This is like the godly music heard in the mind of soul searcher wondering through the a forest on shrooms!

[@Erihk_]

This song makes me look back at all my happy memories

[@koash5]

Hello from Russia! This is the best music for the last 10 years! Good luck to you!

[@Sunkan86]

It's been long since I had a song on repeat for this long. My soul is in joy when listening to this track

[@ckkaneaster]

I've been listening to this song for a week now and it still effects me hard

[@jpf566]

The fact that this only has 223,000 views is troubling to me.

[@Entropeace]

5 years later and it's at 1.6 million :)

[@philpace94]

Better to be kept a secret 😉

[@EsotericHighway]

Almost 2 million now. The whole world will hear this one day.

[@LagMar100]

In Actuality One Of The Most Beautiful Songs I Have Ever Heard In My Life.

[@Yo1shadyfan]

I am not a poet , have nothing profound to say. I just love emancipator. His first 4 albums have had such a deep impact on me.

[@lifeismovementislife9647]

I am listening to this song since 5 years now and it never gets old.. It just conveys so many different feelings and has helped me through hard times. Thank you so much emancipator for this masterpiece. I am also truly in are by this video... It teaches me a lot about cinematography.

[@tonycastles2022]

Nature, my friends! Experience nature! It is like a drug! Nice Song BTW.

[@alessandroaggio]

Crazy, CRAZY. Feelings, emotions, sensations, memories, just crazy.

[@jethro69tull]

Found this randomly. Taking me back to the Enigma days x

[@jendryk11]

Much love Emancipator, your music is an inspiration to all.

[@leeman6101]

This music with the video is everything!! The journey of life, the ups and downs, the pain and the relief, the beauty and tragedy. A man's struggle to survive, and the insatiable appetite to know more and more..

[@jamiekraut2948]

This music makes me THINK and ponder this thing called life...

[@theStepFamm]

too real. gives me chills remindin me what its like to be alive. scary thought to realize the power of the here and now. corny or not the shit is crazy when you really start to question your existence. emancipator somehow transforms those realizations from scary into appreciation

[@Abyss-Will]

I had no idea ben moon was a director, I love the song he did with veela, gotta check out more of him

[@JamarD421]

I've heard this song a year ago and I'll never forget how it made me feel the first time. I feel the same way to this day. So sad yet very uplifted.

[@EbagsGalore]

By far my favorite Emancipator track

[@Ben-rz9cf]

Do you ever feel a sense of longing for something you can't explain that you've never had but can feel is meant for you?

[@bilalchaudhry2952]

Feeling so blessed to listen about this amazing band ❤

[@cosmicstargazer10]

All kinds of gorgeous, trip hop lives!

[@SkipyOfficial]

So amazing...just WOW!!! why dislikes... idk(

[@iaa443]

Such a beautiful piece of music! and video. My girlfriend and I were blessed with E-man's music at Hullaween 2014, while we sat in hammocks on spanish oak trees. Best day of our lives!

[@slidem2k]

Gave me chills

[@ImFeelingDiZe]

In a state of euphoria 🙌

[@kennethmamos411]

Emancipator creates beautiful music that touches and soothes my soul, Masterpiece after masterpiece.

[@jasonknight7799]

beautiful

[@wkurzona_zona]

kiedy nie moge spać, zamykam oczy i nadal widzę. .. kocham to uczucie....🎧

[@StefanRutsch]

Nice music

[@michalj.521]

Superkowa nutka........ Pozdrawiam Ewo :)

[@sayianin]

widzisz wykoksowanych azteckich bogow w stringach? :D

[@Delta-Frost89]

Wow i have no words to describe how beautiful and deep it is ... this touch my soul. i can't stop listen this masterpiece in loop. The video shooting and editing is stunning!

[@alexandreterrigeol5860]

I usually never comment a video, but the mosquitoes with the Violin on the background, making the sound of an insect, that's absolute genius, loved it!

[@zorancicmil4896]

Hvala ti...tvoja muzika, me čini živim...

[@nekonekic4378]

Ne daj se buraaaz

[@maryb2107]

..time to rethinking.. so long so far :) masterpiece !

[@MattDavey68]

This song is the warm fluffy blanket you wrap youself in at the end of a trip.