Long ago it was a session on La Blogothèque that first introduced me to St Vincent. Vincent moon shot her through a handheld grainy dv camera, and although raw and imperfect, or perhaps because it was so, that piece filmed on the streets of Paris remains one of most haunting […]
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Katya Boom møller
Trentemøller Dj hailing from Zealand (old Zealnd in Denmark) invites the intriguingly named Katja Boom Philip to direct a stage shop for the track entitled “Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider Go!!!” and this is what happens. Here is Trentmøller’s face book page. http://www.facebook.com/trentemoller
10) Quimby: Legyen vörös
We had wanted to shoot with Quimby for some time, and were in fact talking it over when Kiss Tibi came and sat at the table next to us. I reminded him that we had worked together many years earlier and explained our idea. Thankfully he was excited as we […]
9) Nouras Motoc: O cafea amara
We have heard Nouras’s voice and his guitar drifting down the budapest streets for some time now. More often than not near tram stops or train stations. We took him down to the front of the old Bem Mozi and asked him to play us a song. He uses a […]
8) Hangmás: Luna
The 8th Anormal session. We shot quite intensely, there was little over two weeks between this and the next piece and this time we decided to take the live music video concept in a different direction. Like the upcoming piece, Luna is a kind of fusion short film/live performance. We […]
Lamentations
Jeff Buckley, Son of Tim Buckley singing here Dido’s Lament, from Purcell’s Dido and Anaes. This, the first opera composed in English, has always had a very special place in my heart. Usually for some unknown reason I find Opera in English trying, threatening on the edge of a musical. […]
Meredith’s dreaming
Meredith Monk, Turtle dreams. The kind of dreams the little girls have in bathtubs. The kind of echoes that ripple off the churning of a wheat field in the wet of a storm. She is definitely not for everyone, nor is she for all times. But there are some moods […]
7) Harcsa Veronika and Gyémánt Bálint: Moss and Lichen
Bálint and Veronika gave us a beautiful piece to work with. Veronika wrote the lyrics in the woods and we shot the video in a basement cave. At first listening it struck me as song about symbiosis, we drew up a concept that would be simple and complimentary. In the […]
6) SoulClap Budapest Ft. ILLspokinn: Let’s get it together
So Judie Jay tells me she would be singing with an amazing MC from NY city and that I should make my way down to listen. Well sure enough the stage was on fire.We put it out there that we do something together and the man was game. For backup […]
Walls of Persepolis
The first dose of Persian music today comes from the Kurdish group the Kamkars. The Kamkars are a single family, siblings. Kamkar is the family name. Here they set some of the poems of the ancient Persian mathematician/philosopher/poet Omar Khayam to classical Persian instrumentation. They are undoubtedly one of the finest classical ensembles […]