I've really been enjoying the Take Away Shows put up on YouTube by La Blogotheque.
From their website:
The Take away shows are la Blogotheque’s first video podcasts. Every week, we invite an artist or a band to play in the streets, in a bar, a park, or even in a flat or in an elevator, and we film the whole session. Of course, what makes the beauty of it is all the little incidents, hesitations, and crazy stuff happening unexpectingly. Besides, we do not edit the videos so they look perfectly flawless, instead we keep the raw sound of the surroundings. Our goal is to try and capture instants, film the music just like it happens, without preparation, without tricks. Spontaneity is the keyword. The Take away shows exist since April 2006. There was Chryde, who wanted to shake things up and find another way to share music, and there was Vincent Moon, who wanted to film music differently. Chryde offered Moon to go and film musicians in the city, Moon seized the idea and glorified it. Since then, other directors across the world joined this project, and we plan to extend it worldwide.
Here's a sample of a new one from the Fleet Foxes, and I put one up from Yeasayer in a previous blog:
And the now famous Arcade Fire in an elevator video:
3 comments:
Love both of those - hadn't seen the Arcade Fire one - very cool!
The Yeasayer show is great. Liars session is good too.
The Daredevil Christopher Wright will be doing something very much like this for the magazine Fader in a Madison bar soon.
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