Teaser video for an upcoming videoclip featuring the visual highlights of the late 2014 Cumbia Cosmonauts tour of Mexico.
The video will help launch the Mexico Remixes EP (coming soon via cassetteblog.com), which will include remixes by Bumb Ay, Yelram Selectah, Malacopa Bros, HNRY + Sonido Satanas – and The Ghost whose remix of Cumbia Sampuesana you can hear above.
Full video coming soon…
by j p, June 23, 2015 0 comments
I was in Hobart to do triple-Screen Video Projections at ‘ Faux Mo‘, which is the afterparty venue each night for the MOFO Festival, connected to the MONA gallery in Hobart, Tasmania. It tends to be eclectic – here’s the program.
Highlights included doing video for – the Frikstailers, (rad Argentinian duo), ZA! (Barcelona crazies!), Chupacabra (Hobart based Latin American band),Vulgargrad (Russian-gypsy-punk!), The Osaka Ramones (Aka Shonen Knife doing Ramones covers), Mad Professor (dubb-b-b), and The Bird– and getting to animate the illustrations of Hobart artists – Tom O’ Hern and Dane Chisolm.
Video-wise, I was running a combo of VDMX and Millumin to trigger, manipulate, sequence and map the videos to a mainstage screen, and two side-wings.
(click the image below to see a larger version)
Other festival good-times while wandering:
– some of Tim Hecker‘s set had me transported, Zammuto (ex-Books) have a pretty engaging and fun audiovisual live set, playing on Robin Fox’s laser-organ was surprisingly engaging, Filastine + Nova delivered a very tightly crafted audiovisual set, there was some impromptu whisky-bar parkour by Jamin, Keith Deverell‘s beautifully shot film installation used mirrors and a walk-through screen very effectively, and finally managed a few moments inside the inflatable labyrinth by Architects of Air, before departing. Thanks Hobart!
Click through for a photo-slideshow below, or browse directly.
by j p, January 22, 2015 0 comments
Am super excited – it’ll be my first time in any of the Americas. From Nov 26 – Dec 22 I’ll be wandering through Mexico City, Oaxaca, Tijuana, as well as Cuernavaca, Metepec and a few other places in between.
[[UPDATE >> Would you like me to send a MEXICAN POSTCARD to your letterbox? ]]
I’ll be doing live-video for the Cumbia Cosmonauts tour (you can help the Cumbia Cosmonauts tour crowdfunding campaign below, + get assorted Mexican goods in the mail… postcards, marketplace mixtapes, tshirts etc) – and outside of that I hope to be holidaying through Mexican landscapes, crazy butterfly reserves, Aztec ruins, mexican wrestling matches, visiting unusual rooftops, haggling about weird vintage Mexican Masks, practicing my duolingo Espańol (si, level one!)….
…and where possible, doing some live video projection + filming outdoors with any Mexican artists / film-makers / performers.
Love to hear from anybody with Mexico-tips, or weird filming locations / fun people to film / project with etc
And aye, flying across the Pacific Ocean to Mexico means going via Los Angeles – so it seemed insane not to be spending my first few days in the United States on the way back.
Love to hear any Los Angeles tips – places to visit/ good rooftop filming locations / people interested in outdoor projections – or Death Valley trips?
Help support the Cumbia Cosmonauts tour:
And here’s my low-budget Cumbia Cosmonauts video-clip from back in 2012:
by j p, November 14, 2014 0 comments
Chancha Via Circuito – a favourite listen in recent years – has a new album out – Amansara (Wonderwheel Recordings). I first discovered his enchanting atmospheres and mixing on his wonderful ZZK Records mixtape (promoting his previous album Rio Arriba). His music seems to thrive best in mixtapes (see also Mixtape Cumbiero European Tour 2013 and a mixtape at Testpressing for new album ), reminding at times of early Future Sound of London and their wandering from soundscape to rhythm and back again. There’s a warmth to this music, and despite a slower tempo, there’s a momentum to it all as well. Recommendo!
Recent Chancha Via Circuito interview with Jace Clayton
Chancha Via Circuito MTV interview
Chancha on soundcloud,
Chancha on facebook,
Chancha on twitter
Oh and a special shout-out too, for Paula Duro, who makes the enchanting artwork for Chancha (and featured in the backlayer of the collage above), as well as much of her own cool stuff. Check out her playful cosmic palette at flickr.
by j p, November 12, 2014 0 comments
So I’ve been reading a lot lately. And swimming in words returns me to writing. Or at least – some words about books.
The infinite shelves at Goodreads are responsible for the bulk of the book orders above (want to swap recommendations?). I don’t know what took me so long to finally join Goodreads, I’d long been finding it tricky to get interesting book recommendations (particularly – good fiction – compared to say music or movies). Amazon has a decent catalogue, but I’ve found it unreliable for recommending new fiction of interest. And while I prefer the hand-curation of say – the Brainpickings bookshelf, the McSweeney’s Journal or DJ Rupture’s Mudd Up Book Club (includes a pretty great collection of sci-fi set in non-anglo cities), each of those are a pretty limited lense.
Anyways, I seem to have my reading for the next while sorted, which is also going to mean some more words here over time.
And if you’re not already aware of the second-hand booksellers below, this is where I found the bulk of the above:
by j p, October 16, 2014 0 comments