Barbara – Robopopironica EP!
This is Barbara
I have been working with a really talented band called Barbara for the past couple of months producing their EP, Robopopironica. The band was formed by Derek Stephens, a classically trained pianist and folk singer, and hip-hop producer Frank Eybsen. They are joined by Betsey Moyer on vocals and Jerrod Thompson on drums.
The EP was released on iTunes and Amazon last week as well as all your other major online retailers.
Here are a couple of the tracks:
Moon Trip
San Francisco
Fistful of Mercy!
Ben Harper, Joseph Arthur, and Dhani Harrrison premiered their new band, Fistful of Mercy for KCRW at the Village last Tuesday. Check out the video I did:
Here’s a clip on YouTube as well:
Oh, yeah and they posted my video on Rolling Stone.
Nas and Damian ‘JR Gong’ Marley
This is a session a did last week at Apogee Studios with Bob Clearmountain.
JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys
Corinne Bailey Rae Live at Vibiana in downtown LA
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck on MBE
The Flaming Lips on Morning Becomes Eclectic
The Flaming Lips came into the studio at KCRW for a live performance on Morning Becomes Eclectic. The video I did got featured on Stereogum and Pitchfork. Check it out:
Calibro 35 and Daniele Luppi
Me, Ariana, Liza, Calibro-35, and Daniele Luppi
Planet Money Live At KCRW on NPR
I produced and directed a live video webcast for KCRW in affiliation with NPR this past weekend. KCRW and National Public Radio presented This American Life’s Alex Blumberg and NPR’s Adam Davidson in a one-hour live stage show, explaining the global economic crisis in human terms. The web-cast is features on On Demand at http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/. It is also currently featured at http://www.kcrw.com/
KCRW @ SXSW 2009
For this years SXSW music conference I managed both web-cast for Morning Becomes Eclectic remotely. We had PJ Harvey and John Parish at SXSW and Peter, Bjorn and John at SXSW. For this I put together a simple one camera set-up with encoder, which we sent to Austin and streamed live from Tequilla Mocking Bird Studios. Also for the conference we built a custom page KCRW at SXSW 2009, designed by my colleague, Nathan Lubeck. The site included interactive slideshows posted via cell phone using Flickr, and live video and instantly posted video clips using Nokia N95 and an interactive video site, Kyte TV. For this project I managed the audio video content and sent out the producers/DJs with the phones we set-up. I also shot a few pre-SXSW videos at the station. The quality is very respectable considering the size of the phone and the immediacy of the upload. The audio/video isn’t great, but it is a great resource for capturing live content on the fly with upload and live capabilities. The live video takes only seconds to connect and be streaming live video to the web and the to upload content can take anywhere from seconds to a few minutes depending on the length of the video and the connection to the network. I shot a bunch of pre-SXSW videos/interviews at KCRW, my favorite being Chris Pierce:
Check out the whole feed:
We started experimenting with the technology last year as part of our of one of the bi-annual drives. It was a 24 hour web-cast that gave listeners a chance to voice and share their thoughts of the station with video. We called it “Speak Easy”, with an open mike style. Check it out: