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Ed Boxall – Dance Beneath A Diamond Sky (Music Video)

Ed Boxall an artist/musician and dear old friend, recently asked if I’d be interested in making a video for a track on his upcoming “Wild Ones” album release.
Back in the (distant) day, Ed and I had a band called “Sunshine Head” and I have always loved his songwriting and art work, so it was a swift and simple ‘yes’.
The track he chose was titled “Dance Beneath A Diamond Sky”, the Bob Dylan reference immediately endeared me to it.

Ed was happy for me to have free rein to do whatever I wanted and after listening to the track a few times an idea presented itself.

I took some existing footage I had shot on a beautiful old Russian Helios 40 85mm lens in a nearby wood and a whole stack of illustrations Ed had sent me.

I had been planning on experimenting more with AI image generators after my initial experiments a year ago as much had evolved in the space. This seemed like the perfect project on which to play.

I fed both the footage and the drawings into the Deforum extension for Stable Diffusion, using prompts generated from Clip Interrogator. This produced some interesting shifting animations of the static footage and dreamlike hallucinations of Ed’s original drawings. I also generated some additional elements to layer into the video using variations on the song’s title as prompts.
Everything was blended together in After Effects and a grade applied to complete the look.

I wanted to make something that didn’t look like it had been generated by AI, something that was using it more as a tool to play with my original footage and Ed’s original drawings. Not only was it more satisfying to use these tools to create based on work done by our own hands but (for me at least) it dismissed a lot of the ethical hand wringing that rightfully accompanies a lot of things being produced by it.

We hope you like it.

Listen to the full album “Wild Ones”

See and order the “Wild Ones” book and Ed’s other work on his website www.edboxall.co.uk

Handbook “New Day” – Official Music Video – Cascade Records

My first official music video in a while, “New Day”, taken from the new Handbook  E.P. “Reminiscence“, out now on Cascade records.
I’ve made two music videos for Cascade previously, Repeat Pattern “Fuck But Beautiful” and Fitz Ambro$e “FAIFF”, so I reached out to Handbook after seeing a tweet from Cascade records promoting the EP and he chose “New Day” as the track he wanted a video for with the brief “I love rivers, countryside and birds/insects so that would be a great focus. Probably difficult, but something ant based would be dope.”

I love this kind of brief as it gives me the amazing freedom to try out ideas and play with effects I otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity to, even better when the music is as good as this.
Some fun involving a borrowed Garmin Virb 360 (Thanks Documentally:)camera, lots of tests, waiting for the English weather to play ball to get the clouds I wanted and a lot of meticulous masking and editing and voila…..

 

I really love the happy, uplifting quality of much of Handbook’s work, do yourself a favor and check out his other stuff:-

soundcloud.com/handbook

and follow him on Twitter:-

@HandbookYork

 

 

Fleck E.S.C. – Further Peace (Official Video)

To coincide with the long overdue release of French electro artist Fleck E.S.C. ‘s website – www.fleckesc.com I can finally release my video for his “Further Peace” track.
Actually shot in Feburary last year the video has taken a long time to see the light of day, I am particularly proud of this one so I hope you like it!
Leave me a comment and head over to Fleck E.S.C.’s site to hear more of his great music.

Fitz Ambro$e – FAIFF (Official Music Video) Cascade Records

Very happy to present my second official video for Cascade Records.
This time for Fitz Ambro$e for his track “FAIFF” taken from his and Ohbliv’s  Zen Vapors album.

Amusingly because of my VPN Youtube thinks I’m in Germany and won’t let me watch my own video, so if anyone else has that issue head over to see it on vimeo here:- https://vimeo.com/72188715

From the Cascade press release:-

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Digital & Vinyl version ➥ http://cascaderecords.bandcamp.com/al…

Directed and Edited by Uchujin

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Its 2013 and in this release we hear a totally new approach
to sampling. A vinyl release of two artists.
Fitz Ambro$e (Cape Breton Island) residing in Tokyo, & Ohbliv
of Richmond ,Virginia(USA). Fitz Ambro$e sound has unique
influence from 90’s hip hop and 80’s soul, he is also
affiliated with Cosmopolyphonic collective in Tokyo.
From the record archives of his father, Ohbliv developed the
charm of sampling. The record is a 14 track collage of beats
from two uniquely talented artists who transcend their
individual musical roots. As if competeing with each other
both leave the remnants of sampling material, and the method
in which they cut and chop is truely an interesting work.
Don’t sleep ! ! !

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TRACKLIST:

SIDE Ambro$e

A1 BKAUULIN
A2 ALDAY
A3 FAIFF
A4 DIPN TREES
A5 CANI
A6 JDSYY JOINT
A7 MIND RINGA [Bonus Track] vinyl & digital *

SIDE Bliv

B1 KEITHY
B2 GILLY
B3 HEALET (RARE TOUCH)
B4 JUSWANABE
B5 GO PAK
B6 LEVEL 24
B7 WHIPMYHEART [Bonus Track] vinyl **

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All Music Written and Produced by Fitz Ambro$e & Ohbliv
Mastered by Barry Gardner
Art Direction and Illustration by Mitsutaka Mutaka
A&R by Sal Martin

➦ Exclusive worldwide distribution by Fat Beats
➥ Exclusive Japan distribution by Jet Set Records

All Rigths of The Producers, Artworkers and Cascade Records
Of The Work Reproduced Reserved.

CR007 [P]&[C] SEPTEMBER 2013 Cascade Records

 

You may like to check out the first video I did for Cascade for the artist Repeat Pattern and his track “Fuck But Beautiful”

Vaughn Montgomery LIVE in Kyoto part 3 – “One And Only”

Here is Part 3 (the final part) of the wonderful Vaughn Montgomery from Ojai, California playing live in Kyoto at one of Sean & Ariko’s wedding parties.
As mentioned in Part 1, and Part 2 I was a little too drunk, happy and enjoying myself to capture his performance the way it really deserved to be, but I did manage to get a couple of songs.

So, the final song from that wonderful night  “One And Only” by Mr Montgomery his bad self.

Thats Gui Martinez on drums.
Gui runs jagr-mag.com a rather wonderful art/music website worth a look as well as being devilishly handsome and insanely talented

Visit Vaughn’s website to hear his album and tell everyone you know.

Special thanks also to my dear friend Manny Santiago at www.hesomagazine.com for the additional audio recordings used to make this sound better than the shitty in camera audio and for being an enigma of a friend who never stops surprising me.

Part 1 in case you missed it is HERE and Part 2 is HERE

Vaughn Montgomery LIVE in Kyoto part 2 – “The Clownie”

Here is Part 2 of the wonderful Vaughn Montgomery from Ojai, California playing live in Kyoto at one of Sean & Ariko’s wedding parties.
As mentioned in Part 1, I was a little too drunk, happy and enjoying myself to capture his performance the way it really deserved to be, but I did manage to get a couple of songs.
So, song 2 “The Clownie” by Mr Montgomery his bad self.

Thats Gui Martinez you can hear (but not see, sorry Gui) on drums.

(Gui also runs jagr-mag a rather wonder art/music website worth a look)

Visit Vaughn’s website to hear his album and tell everyone you know –  let’s get this amazing, sweet & incredible man a record deal!

Special thanks also to my dear friend Manny Santiago at www.hesomagazine.com for the additional audio recordings used to make this sound better than the shitty in camera audio and for being a prince amongst men and far too far away for my liking.

Part 1 in case you missed it is HERE

Vaughn Montgomery LIVE in Kyoto part 1 – “Pastures Of Plenty”

I very briefly mentioned the greatest wedding I have ever been to or am ever likely to go to in an earlier post and one of the people at that wedding who helped to make it so spectacular was Vaughn Montgomery a musician from Ojai, California.
As part of the 5 day long festivities there was a concert one night in a bar in Kyoto at which Vaughn (amongst others) played , I was a little too drunk, happy and enjoying myself to capture his performance the way it really deserved to be, but I did manage to get a couple of songs,
Here is the first of them.
“Pastures Of Plenty” a Woody Guthrie cover. Enjoy!

Visit Vaughn’s website to hear his album and tell everyone you know –  let’s get this amazing, sweet & incredible man a record deal!

Special thanks also to Manny Santiago at www.hesomagazine.com for the additional audio recordings used to make this sound better than the shitty in camera audio and the legendary bloody marys that we drank every morning while everyone else was still sleeping ;)

Repeat Pattern – Fuck But Beautiful (official music video)

My second video for the rather lovely and talented Repeat Pattern, this time for the track “Fuck But Beautiful” from the self titled album out now on Cascade records.
Available on white vinyl and digitally, go order it now!

All real footage shot with a GoPro on the Tohoku shinkansen with some After Effects and Premiere Pro magic to create the effect.

A nod and a dothing of cap to Alani Cruz a.k.a. Rather Make Art for his inspiration.

Repeat Pattern can be found here:-

Cascade Records

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I Love You But…..

Allow me to present a short music video for your delectation.

“I Love You But…” is a song I wrote and recorded more than 10 years ago and it is one of the pieces I still love most from my time as a musician.
I’ve recently been frustrated by a couple of stalled documentary projects and needed to do or learn something new before I went crazy, so I’ve been studying 3D modelling software and After Effects.
Anyway, the video above is the result of my meddling.

Who is the song about? Now, that would be telling………..

I Long To Be Invisible Again

5D in for repair? (*see note below)
No problem, shoot loads of clips using your iPhone 3GS , edit them together in Premiere Pro with some music from your old band and voila a music / personal confession video.

Music – “Plinky One” – The Hawkline Orchestra
(That’s me on guitar that is – and the fantastic singer Rochelle Vincente, now of Product/01 )

*5D mk II mode dial broke off in my hand a few weeks ago. Took it to the Canon service center, 19,000Y ($220 U.S. ish) to repair or 10,500Y ($120 U.S. ish) to replace the dial with the new locking mode dial.
WTF?
New locking mode dial thanks, oh….but that’ll take 2 weeks!! f%&k what am I going to do without a camera!!!!*

DISCLAIMER: This video was filmed and this blog post was written before the events of 11/3/11 in Japan and the subsequent disaster that struck the country. I am publishing it now in an effort to return to some kind of normality.