mardi 29 avril 2014

The Leafs - The Error of Your Ways ( Dir : Gus Kemp ) 2012



... Elliott Smith .. Donovan ... plenty of ( top stuff ) influences ... moving & beautiful track ... simple & effective video ... bravo !

lundi 28 avril 2014

samedi 26 avril 2014

Beck - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime ( Written by James Warren - The Korgis 1980 ) 2004



... from the Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind OST ( Michel Gondry 2004 ) ... moving song , moving amazing movie & moving cover version by Beck (Bek David Campbell) ....

mercredi 23 avril 2014

Light Installation for the Montreux Jazz Festival - ( Cauboyz ) 2014


.... Swiss craftmen's ...  at the service of jazzmaking instead of watchmaking ( sorry , OK ,  I'm out ...).. pleasant & interesting ...

mardi 22 avril 2014

Shapeshifter - Endless ( Dir : Nick Dwyer & Tu Neill ) 2013



... superb Tokyo night life fantasy ... hang around ... I'm not sure about the song .. you can turn it off but the video is worth watching ....

dimanche 20 avril 2014

vendredi 18 avril 2014

jeudi 17 avril 2014

Thee Oh Sees - The Lens ( Dir : Alex Theodoropulos ) 2014



.... psychedelicious garage band from San Francisco ... somewhere between The Zombies & The Left Banke .... Wonderful music ....intergalactic vid

mardi 15 avril 2014

Coldplay - Magic ( Dir : Jonas Åkerlund ) 2014



.... classic , beautiful & perfectly controlled direction by Jonas Akerlund ....silent movies melodrama ... Houdini ... watch it directly from the music video agency ,great HQ , HERE !.....

lundi 14 avril 2014

Tokyo Reverse - Extracts ( French France 4 TV show ) ( Dir : Simon Bouisson et Ludovic Zuili ) 2014



.... music : Francesco Tristano ....amazing & dreamy trip in Tokyo's streets ...simple but quite fascinating , good idea & directing ... great " reverse " video by Spike Jonze , HERE !

samedi 12 avril 2014

Judah Warsky - Bruxelles, capitale de l'Europe ( Dir : Jamie Harley ) 2013


... Gainsbourg leave this body ( throat ) .... peculiar mood & atmosphear ... real cool vid .... Dick Annegarn & Trans Europe Express ( Kraftwerk ) are invited ...

vendredi 11 avril 2014

The Train Kept A-Rollin' - Four versions of the same song ( Audio & Music videos ) 1951 / 1957 / 1968 / 1974

Original version : Tiny Bradshaw ( Composer ) 1951    HERE !
 Rockab' versionJohnny Burnette Trio   1957              HERE !
 British blues explosion The Yardbirds  1968         HERE !
American heavy rock  Aerosmith    1974              HERE !

Uncontacted by anthropologists ( Photographer : ? ) 2014


    Indians who are considered uncontacted by anthropologists react to a plane flying over their community in the Amazon basin near the Xinane river in Brazil's Acre State, near the border with Peru, on March 25. Many indigenous groups, including the Huni Kui, Ashaninka, and Madija, live in villages in the Brazilian rainforest near the border with Peru .....

jeudi 10 avril 2014

mercredi 9 avril 2014

Queens Of The Stone Age - Smooth Sailing ( Dir : Hiro Murai ) 2014



... Sake/acid party  .... XLent Japanese  short thriller staring Josh Homme/QOTSA's frontman ...  influenced by Takeshi Kitano ... Point Of View .... directed by the great Hiro Murai( see also :
http://leschicsclips.blogspot.fr/2012/02/st-vincent-cheerleader-dir-hiro-murai.html )

mardi 8 avril 2014

lundi 7 avril 2014

dimanche 6 avril 2014

Michael Jackson & Janet - Scream ( Dir : Mark Romanek ) 1995



.... still the most expensive music videos ever made ( lots of million bucks ) ... it was before the democratization of digital FX's software .... 2001 : Space odissey inspired ( like 99 % of sci-fi film made since ! ) ... very clean & efficient directing by Mark Romanek  ...

vendredi 4 avril 2014

The Human League - Only After Dark ( Mick Ronson's cover ) Audio track 1980

.... from "Travelogue " ...  ( on keyboards , Martyn Ware & Ian Marsh before Heaven 17 ) ....  great song & cover version ... Sheffield sound ....( original here : http://leschicsclips.blogspot.fr/2013/02/mick-ronson-only-after-dark-dir-mark.html )



Heaven 17 - I'm Your Money ( "12 Version Audio track ) 1981

.... "machine driven" music influenced by Kraftwerk  ... perfect match music/lyrics ... satire of Reagan/Thatcher era capitalism & Yuppie culture .... catchy track  .... Glenn Gregory on vocals + Martyn Ware & Ian Marsh ( ex- The Human League  ) ....



mardi 1 avril 2014

Arif Lohar - Mirza Sahibaan ( Live TV show, Coke Studio Sessions ) 2010


.... very strong & brilliant Punjabi funky stuff from Pakistan  ... if listening to this , you don't feel like dancing , you are probably dead I'm sorry to say ...
                                Watch it HERE !