Black Sand Shore

Making heavy use of the marble corridors of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, the sepia-toned video for Grace’s 'Black Sand Shore' is pure 1990s pop. Jason Ioasa leads the vocals while exploring the many corridors — although the three Ioasa brothers spend most of their time standing intensely at the entrance to the museum’s interior ‘Centennial Street’. All the while, an hourglass placed by an Ioasa and an unknown woman ominously ticks down. The song was the third single from Grace's 1995 album Black Sand Shore, which was included in Nick Bollinger’s 2009 book 100 Essential New Zealand Albums.