We proudly present the Wayne Hoecherl directed video for Best Tonight by Combine the Victorious. The video features Taya Morrow, who choreographed and performed the dancing in a mysterious tunnel to great effect. Special thanks must be given to Taya and Wayne as well as Dan Kozma for his excellent camera work and editing as well as Chris Hooper for assisting with the dolly during the shoot.
Taya Morrow was styled by Isabelle Dunlop, and you can see her dancing to great effect in flowing scarves and wool outfits. Hair and makeup was courtesy of Charlene Santaga of Bambu Salon, Vancouver BC.
Big thanks to everyone involved in this project, we're very pleased with how lovely it's all turned out!
NorthernTransmissions.com and Boutique Empire proudly present the Aurora episode of Records In My Life. We met with Aurora backstage at Imperial Vancouver, while she was on her current North American tour. Things have been going very well for her with this new album release and she was very charming during our interview. I think we both enjoyed her enthusiastic declarations about the music she loves: a childhood favorite with Ane Brun as well as The Beatles and A Perfect Circle. One of my favorite guests we've interviewed yet! Please check it out.
This Aurora episode of Records In My Life references the following albums: 1. Ane Brun - A Temporary Dive 2. Bjork - Homogenic 3. The Beatles - Revolver 4. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step (Aurora actually names a song title from the album) 5. Wardruna - Yggdrasil
RIML with guest Aurora was hosted and produced by Charles Brownstein Direction, videography, editing by Mark Henning Animations and Logo by Susana Ramirez
Music Credits: This episode of Records In My Life with guest Aurora features the song "Running With the Wolves" by Aurora from her album "All My Demons Greeting Me As a Friend"
Theme music is "Best Tonight" by Combine the Victorious
Northern Transmissions and Boutique Empire present the Leisure Cruise episode of Records In My Life. We caught up with Leah Siegel and Dave Hodges of the band Leisure Cruise outside the UBC Thunderbird Arena before their show with Metric and Deathcab for Cutie. The two were enthusiastic with their praise of artists and music and dropped albums from Beastie Boys, The Beatles, The Clash and Otis Redding among their list. It was a windy day on the hill where we interviewed them so apologies in advance for the audio on this clip.
After their performance here in Vancouver the band was flown to Wisconsin to perform at a rally in support of Bernie Sanders!
Dave Hodges and Leah Siegel from Leisure Cruise referenced the following albums in this interview:
1. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
2. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
3. The Clash - London Calling
4. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Island Records Anthology
5. Otis Redding - I've Got Dreams to Remember
6. Cariboo - Our Love
Records In My Life is produced and hosted by Charles Brownstein
Videography, direction and editng by Mark Henning
Animations and logos - Susana Ramirez
This Leisure Cruise episode of Records In My Life features the song "The Getaway" by Leisure Cruise from their Leisure Cruise album
Theme music is "Best Tonight" by Combine the Victorious.
Northern Transmissions and Boutique Empire present the Lower Dens episode of Records In My Life.
Jana and Nate from the band Lower Dens joined us backstage before their
show at the Rickshaw here in Vancouver. The two discuss some of their
favorite albums, from the more elegant compositions of Messiaen to the
soul of Curtis Mayfield and Stevie Wonder, the two were charming and
funny (despite being crammed for time due to touring issues). Check it
out!
This Lower Dens episode of Records In My Life references the following titles: 1. Terry Riley - Reed Streams 2. Arthur Russell - World of Echoes 3. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II 4. Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July 5. Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today 6. Olivier Messiaen - 4 Feuillets inedits per ondo Martenot e pianoforte
Lower Dens on Records In My Life was produced by Charles Brownstein for NorthernTransmissions.com Videography, direction, editing by Mark Henning Animations and RIML logo by Susana Ramirez
Music Credits: This episode of RIML features the song "To Die and L.A." by Lower Dens on their "Escape From Evil" album https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/to-...
Northern Transmissions and Boutique Empire present another episode of Records In My Life, this week featuring poet, actor, singer, rapper, spoken word artist Saul Williams. Saul was a real pleasure to meet, we hung out backstage at the Commodore for over an hour waiting for headliner K-OS to complete his soundcheck and spent the time chatting about various bands, and influencial albums. He has had a colourful career, starting in Brooklyn and now living in LA, and like most stage actors has a strong love for musicals, which is why he leads off his choices with the original cast recording of Sarafina, and then moves onto Jesus Christ Superstar! Then, and we didn't have time to include the entire segment, but he spoke at great length about the Bristol movement in the 90's, siting Portishead, Tricky, Goldie, LTJ Bukem and added in Bjork.
"I may have been living in Brooklyn at the time but my apartment was Bristol!"
We all had a marvelous time hanging out with this talented artist, and wish him great success on his soon to be released album MartyrLoserKing.
Produced and hosted by Charles Brownstien - Northern Transmissions
Directed and edited by Mark Henning - Boutique Empire
Videography: Katharine Schultz and Mark Henning
Animations and RIML logo: Susana Ramirez
The episode featured the song Burundi (feat. Emily Koko) off the Saul Williams album MartyrLoserStar.
Intro theme: Best Tonight by Combine the Victorious from the Autonomous album.
This week's episode of Records In My Life features Travis Egedy of the electronic project Pictureplane. He picked out a few classic albums including Nirvana and Madonna, as well as personal favorites such as Purient and Wolf Eyes. A very enthusiastic interview, quite an easy one to film down at Red Car Records once again. Have a look!
Presented by Northern Transmissions and Boutique Empire
Produced and hosted by Charles Brownstein
Videography, direction, editing by Mark Henning
Animations, logos by Susana Ramirez
This episode features the song Esoterrorist by Pictureplane
Theme music - Best Tonight by Combine the Victorious
Northern Transmissions and Boutique Empire present another episode of Records in my Life, this week featuring the band Hinds from Spain.
Filmed at Red Cat Records here in Vancouver, the band discusses the albums that inspired them, and play on their stereo as they tour the world.
Big thanks to Hinds for making such a fun episode.
Host: Charles Brownstein
Camera: Susana Ramirez, Mark Henning
Opening graphics: Susana Ramirez
Diretor, editor: Mark Henning
Open theme song Best Tonight - Combine the Victorious
Music composed by Henning, Dunlop, Harrison, Grant
Lyrics by: Henning, Dunlop, Birch
Vocals: Mark, Isabelle
Guitar: Don Harrison
Drums: Leigh Grant
Synths: Mark
Best Tonight will be a part of the upcoming Combine the Victorious album Autonomous, set for release later in 2015. It is the first collaboration of core members Henning and Dunlop with Don Harrison (Sons of Freedom) and Leigh Grant (Pure) as well as Jordy Birch (Guilty About Girls).
