ravi krishnaswami http://www.ravimusic.com/blog Composer & sound designer for media. Guitarist extraordinaire. Producer & Collaborator. Sat, 29 Jan 2011 03:56:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Viva Vena! http://www.ravimusic.com/blog/2010/09/08/viva-vena/ http://www.ravimusic.com/blog/2010/09/08/viva-vena/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:50:23 +0000 ravi http://www.ravimusic.com/blog/?p=114 This is a very cool avant-garde spot I scored for a new fashion label from the ladies at Vena Cava. It ran at Fashion Week! Visuals by my friends at Gretel.

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Best Overall Concert Experience

The Decemberists debuting their new album, with Heartless Bastards and Avett Brothers opening up. The Decemberists’ new record is a rock opera and their energetic, seamless and complicated performance of it, instrument for instrument, was fantastic. Only thing is they were actually overshadowed by Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond, who sang several of the leads. Wow. And the openers put in headlining-worthy sets. I’m sure they will generally be headlining from here on out. Keep your eye on Avett Brothers, they’re produced by Rick Rubin and poised for some big stuff.

Best Ten Minutes of Live Performance

Eli “Paperboy” Reed — we caught the end of a set at the PureVolume house that has to be the best ten minutes of singing I’ve seen. He OWNED the room.

Best/Most Unique New (to me) Band

Dirty Projectors — I ended up seeing them twice as I missed part of their set first time. The vocals are otherworldly, the rhythms are slightly African, and the songs are intriguing.

Best/Guilty Pleasure New (to me) Band

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart — Yes they sound like a number of indiepop bands from the ’90s Teenbeat, Slumberland, etc scene. That’s why I like them!

Funniest/Craziest Band

King Khan and the Shrines. Visually he’s a cross between James Brown and a late ’70s Bollywood action star. Musically take James Brown, add bollywood kitsche vocal effects, some Iggy and MC5 and a fair amount of Chris Rock and you are there.

Best Meal

The trailer park themed Taco stand outside of town with Austin’s best queso… went  down nice with friends and a case of Shiner.

Best Panel

Jarvis Cocker giving his thoughts on the importance of lyrics. It was thorough, witty, and enlightening.

Best Part of the Day

The 5 pm Shower before dinner. Highly recommended with the jam-packed day parties.

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"Light and Shadow"

From left to right: MAC Cosmetics with my friends at Plus Et Plus, Fallout 3 with my friends at AKQA, and Northland dark fruit juices, directed by my buddy Michel Suissa. 

 

Thumbnail plays the video. Enjoy! 

 

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