Explore the other side of Toronto’s sound with Harrison, a l l i e, Birthday Boy, and M.I. Blue, a new wave of local artists making music that’s just “a little more jiggy”.
Credits: Directed by: Scott Perry, Frances Capell Producer: Frances Capell Produced By: The FADER Executive Producers: Rob Stone, Jon Cohen, Andy Cohn, Anthony Holland Creative Director: Robert Semmer Director of Photography: Scott Perry Assistant Camera: Logan Scott, Charles Hutchings Sound: Paolo Di Teodoro Production Assistant: Kat Hidalgo Production Manager: Madison LaClair Editor: Chris Beckman Sound Mix: Jake Viator Color: Mikey Rossiter at The Mill Titles: Madison Bullard
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Official viz for Harrison’s “Lotus”. Description says it all! Nice.
We ate the gummy bears.
Director: Charlie Tyrell Production Company: Do’s Director of Photography: Chet Tilokani Art Director: Robin Clason Lighting FX: Romar Johnson Ronin Op: Adam Seward Stop Motion Animator: Martha Grant Colour Facility: Alter Ego Colourist: Conor Fisher VFX: Kyle Fowler
Special Thanks: Justin Peroff, Mark Watts, Kyle & Meg Watts, Toronto Animated Image Society
The gorgeous Charlie Tyrell-directed, ethereal audio-visual experience marks the album’s 1-year anniversary (released on September 9, 2016 via Last Gang Records), and celebrates Harrison’s success to date. As Harrison’s music doesn’t feature his own voice, Charlie wanted to combine excerpts from a candid phone conversation he had with the artist, while en route from Toronto Pearson International Airport to Asia, where he would be touring for the first time. It features colourful lighting, vibrant party supplies, stop motion animation and live action footage. Following a year of accolades and award nods (2016 JUNOs for Electronic Album of the Year, and a 2017 Prism Prize nomination for It’s Okay I Promise feat. Clairmont The Second), Harrison will be wrapping up the season at Rifflandia Festival in Victoria, BC on September 17. This concludes a jam-packed summer tour for Harrison, as he rocked sets at Field Trip, Bastid’s BBQ, Osheaga, Supercrawl Festival and a headlining trek through Asia’s nightclubs. I’ve included a quote from Charlie below for more info.
On the video, Charlie Tyrell says, “Harrison’s music has always seems so vibrant and playful so we knew that we wanted to do something with colour. We were able to synchronize all of the house windows to different coloured lights by mad-scientist Romar Johnson, who normally designs stage lighting for live performances. Apart from that, the challenge of re-shooting a video with a new layer of stop motion overtop was possible thanks to animator Martha Grant. A few trips to the local party supply stores and an exhaustive week in the animation studio and we had it. The one thing missing off all of Harrison’s songs is his voice. And as we had many discussions about the song over the phone so it felt very natural to include them in the final product – making for a live action/animation/documentary-hybrid sort of video. One that allows Harry to reflect on where he’s at with his career today.”
It’s a Sean Leon kinda day. More lo-fi goodness from the kid.
TOOK A TRAIN TO FIND THE WORDS
“Staring in the mirror can be hard sometimes but true self-understanding comes from moments of clarity that we’re blessed with only after cathartic conversations with self.” – noel
“Since becoming a father I haven’t had much time to myself. I went to go visit my mom back in the east end, which is about a 30 minute car ride from Toronto or an hour via a solitary train ride on which I was blessed with the space needed to reflect. I was able to have a conversation with myself I hadn’t been able to have prior to that excursion because of responsibilities and my environment and things like that but yeah, I was able to gain some clarity on myself and have been reaping the benefits of that communication ever since. I wanted to document that. I wanted to show the viewer how many times I might talk to myself on any regular night within the span of 6 minutes.” – sean leon
directed / written / edited : NOEL camera operators : NOEL & LILA
scored by SEAN LEON
TITLE: GOD MC 9:05 PM EST ARTIST: SEAN LEON PRODUCER: NO ID RECORDED BY: JANDRE AMOS ENGINEER: ETHAN ASHBY GENRE: REEL
TITLE: BY MYSELF 9:11 PM EST ARTIST: SEAN LEON PRODUCER: JANDRE AMOS, MARTIN SOLE ADDITIONAL VOCALS: KRISTEN WALKER ENGINEER: ETHAN ASHBY GENRE: REEL
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Love this man. Dude has the confidence to just drop a video for a song from like 3 years ago. It’s either that or he’s super disorganized, lol. Either way…dope!
Written by Sean Leon Engineered by Sunny Diamonds Produced by Lonnie Liston Smith Album King of the Wild Things
Directed by NOEL Camera operators NOEL, LILA
Adding to his LIFEMOVIE.FILM project, Sean Leon returns with a new video for the previously released “September 7th”, off his 2014 EP King of the Wild Things.
Humble with a different type of take on his spoken word piece “Blame Muslims” from Rightous/Ratchet Vol. 1. Nice man.
Blame Muslims By Humble The Poet is available for Download/Stream at http://humblethepoet.com/music Support the ACLU!! https://www.aclu.org/ LAST VIDEO: https://youtu.be/gebhSqsG_4E
Cast (in order of appearance) Nusaibah Greenberg Emily Nguyen http://instagram.com/emilynguyenup Zakariyah Muhammad http://instagram.com/shophilwah Rheyanah Muhammad http://instagram.com/shophilwah Zia Nelson http://instagram.com/realzianelson Henderson Nguyen http://instagram.com/henderson.nguyen TresorOk // G-one Rachel Shevchenko http://instagram.com/rachy2013_ Trenton Lucas http://instagram.com/trentonamus Kareemah Muhammad http://instagram.com/shophilwah Samarra Blanson http://instagram.com/samarrablansonof… Vaughn Clark Bronte Francis Grace Wilcox http://instagram.com/gracebriellawilcox Briana Roy http://instagram.com/Brianaroy Lara Masood Alexa Reddy http://instagram.com/alexareddy
Director: Humble The Poet Producer: Brendan Nahmias Director of Photography: William Gormley 1st AD: Carine Tomassian Emotional Support: River Shephard Written By: Humble The Poet
My name is Kanwer Singh aka Humble The Poet, and my goal is to shake your ass, shake your heart, and shake your mind all at the same time.
I am a writer, musician, and creative who loves to bring ideas to life. I used to be an elementary school teacher, and I learned a lot about how to put things into words to help people feel better about life. Now I try my bests to do that and connect with people through my music, my book, and my other creative projects.
Yes! Bigg Soxx chops it up lovely on q. LIVING LEGEND!
Saukrates sat down in the q studios to talk about how he helped lay the bedrock for the Canadian hip hop scene, his connection to Drake, and how business crippled his most critically acclaimed album.
Get ready to meet the artists you’re talking about, and the ones you’ll soon love. Whatever you’re into — be it music, TV, film, visual art, theatre, or comedy — q is there. Expect deep insight, and big surprises. Because on q, arts and entertainment get personal.
Jessie chops it up with Genius about the big chune.
For such a young career, singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez has had an interesting path to mainstream music. Her interest in music started with playing the guitar as a child in Toronto, then later writing her own music in high school. She left Canada for Miami after graduating, only to come home and pursue her dreams in 2014. This lead to her releasing the song “Figures” in 2016, which is currently at 16 million streams and counting on Spotify and 334,000 Soundcloud plays. “Figures” centers a heartbroken Reyez, wishing she could feel less embarrassed about dedicating herself to an untrustworthy lover.
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