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Video

Freedom Zen

I’ve just finished the video I’ve been working on for my track Freedom Zen with Chang Jui-chuan. The track is off the CABACA album (more info and download links here) which has just also become available on CD Baby for those who want to support this and possible future collaborations by buying a copy of the CD.

I wanted Jui-chuan’s lyrics to play the starring role in the video, so I “textified” CC licensed still images I found on flickr, with the help of visual keywords that Jui-chuan provided me with. I animated the images in AfterEffects, and mixed them with some blue-screen footage I shot with a Xacti CG65 camcorder. I drew some images with blue permament marker and Emily kindly wrote the traditional and simplified characters for me. To save time, I rendered some sections and backgrounds online with animoto.

There’s a link to watch the video in high quality on the song’s YouTube page. The video is also available on Vimeo and there’s a link to download the original 150MB .wmv-file.

Unfortunately I have no pics from when we recorded Chris Bailey’s guitar for Freedom Zen, but here are Chuang Tyng-Ruey’s photos from the recording session in Taipei where we recorded Jui-chuan’s vocals and Bobo on the drums.

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Video

Distant Towns (Sapporo)

I learned about animoto.com yesterday – someone had used one of my CC licensed tracks in their video and it looked intriguing. So, I thought I’d try my hand myself.

Here’s an unreleased track, Distant Towns, after the Animoto treatment. The images are from my trip to Sapporo to attend the iCommons Summit – most of them from Moerenuma Park.

*** UPDATE ***

The track has since been released under the title Faraway Places on the Stone Bell EP.

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Remixes

Easy (Viba Acoustic Mix)

My good friend Viba in Taipei just did this cool acoustic mix of my track Easy featuring Sonja V. Download it for free from the link below. And do remember to check out Viba’s music, too!

Easy (Viba Acoustic Mix)

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News

Compilations

I’m mixing the last two tracks for Tafubar, bringing the total tally of mixes for Tafu up to 28.  It’s been quite an epic job, but with the end in sight I have to admit that I’ve really enjoyed the experience and have learnt a lot in the process. Tafu’s album (now entitled Changeability) will be released on the Lemongrassmusic imprint soon, but the collaboration has also yielded features on five new compilation albums:

Lemongrass Garden Vol. 3

Buddha Grooves 4

Cafe Oriental Vol. 7

Tafubar – “The Lemongrass Remixes”  EP

Lounge du Soleil Vol.3

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News

CABACA – now available on Jamendo for free download

The CABACA album is not only now available in shops here in Taiwan, but has also just been uploaded to Jamendo and is available for free download. It’s not quite the entire album (the full album has more than 50 tracks, including ringtones), but these first 11 tracks form the core of this collaboration album.

You can grab it here: CABACA ON JAMENDO

The website is still under construction, but you’ll soon be able to get all the information about the CABACA album and artists featured on the album from cabaca.org.

We’re also in the process of uploading a cappellas and a bunch of stems from the album to CCMixter.org. Grab those here (more to come):

http://ccmixter.org/people/CC_Asia_Band

That’s in addition to some online mixable tracks available at SPLICE, here:

http://www.splicemusic.com/people/CC_Asia_Band/