Promo News

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• Janelle Monáe featuring Big Boi’s Tightrope by Wendy Morgan
• Monsters Of Folk’s Dear God by Lauri Faggioni
• Jarmean?’s Bad Penny by Alex Sufit
• Performance’s The Living by Sam Pilling

Janelle Monáe featuring Big Boi’s Tightrope by Wendy Morgan Posted: 19 Apr 2010 07:00 AM PDT Sounding like Martha Reeves and looking like James Brown – that's a hell of a combination. And the joy of Wendy Morgan's video for Janelle Monáe's Tightrope is how the slightly weird and surreal – with a tribute to a recent Yeasayer video – sits comfortably with a compelling song and dance performance. Superb. [...]

Monsters Of Folk’s Dear God by Lauri Faggioni Posted: 19 Apr 2010 05:19 AM PDT From sometime Michel Gondry-collaborator Lauri Faggioni comes this distinctly crafty reinterpretation of Ray and Charles Eames' legendary film Powers of Ten for MoF's soulful Dear God. It goes from macro to micro, through layers created in-camera on a 4ft square set in New York, heading towards a guy lying in Panavision's parking lot in LA. [...]

Jarmean?’s Bad Penny by Alex Sufit Posted: 19 Apr 2010 04:00 AM PDT Relatively new to music promos – her last for New York act Aaron & Mordechai was nominated for the 2009 Rushes Soho Shorts MVA's – Alexandra Sufit directed this video for 'punk vaudeville' act Jarmean? Shot in East London and lensed by Mike Bates on the Canon EOS 5D Mk II, the lighthearted promo features burlesque [...]

Performance’s The Living by Sam Pilling Posted: 19 Apr 2010 01:30 AM PDT Manchester band Performance, signed to Big Life Management, teamed up with Sam Pilling for their track The Living – Pilling's first proper music video. Dressed all in white, the trio are drenched in nasty black paint over the course of the promo. "From first listening to the song, the lyrics that really caught me were ‘the [...]

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