cat stevens Wild World - cat stevens Wild World

What this video is

Released on 15 October 2020 as the fourth single from Tea for the Tillerman², Yusuf/Cat Stevens' complete 50th-anniversary reimagining of his landmark 1970 album. The original song was first released in September 1970 by Island Records and A&M Records, becoming Stevens' breakthrough hit in America. The 2020 rearrangement recast the song in a klezmer-inflected waltz style with accordion and saxophone, described by…

Why it matters

Represents a landmark intersection of singer-songwriter folk canon and contemporary art-house animation video practice. The original 'Wild World' (1970) helped establish Cat Stevens as a defining voice of the early-1970s singer-songwriter movement and has been covered extensively across reggae,…

The director

Effie Pappa is an award-winning director and animator based in Athens and London. Her work employs allegory, absurdism, and humour to explore universal human themes. Her short film 'My Stuffed Granny' (2014) won over twenty international awards including the…