Les Paul movie (I’m in it too!)

Jun 192007

I have signed a few release forms before, mostly for documentaries shot in studios I was working at, but this is certainly the biggest of those movies and probably the one I am most proud of. One of the few (maybe the only) authorized feature-length biography films about the man who started it all, “Chasing Sound! Les Paul at 90″ was shot in HD by producers John Paulson, James Arntz and Glenn Aveni.

I remember those days clearly. The producers were setting up cameras: I was setting up an audio feed for them while setting up for my mix of the Sam Cooke with Jeff Beck song “Good News”… On another day of shooting David Fricke (senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine) was interviewing Les and producers Bob Cutarella and Fran Cathcart were talking to everyone, answering questions left and right. Believe it or not, the wine-red Les Paul guitar with Les’ and Buddy Guy’s signatures on it that Les is hugging and holding in his lap in the movie and on the front page of the Rolling Stone article, was my first Les Paul guitar ever – thanks to my buddy Carlos Cartagena from the Truents who gave it to me!).

I missed the premiere + show of the movie that took place June 13th so I haven’t even seen the film yet, but I will make sure to see it when it premieres on PBS, July 11th at 9pm (EST) and I will buy myself a DVD of it as soon as that is released.

In the meantime you guys can all check out the official Les Paul film website as well as the trailer here:

One Response to “Les Paul movie (I’m in it too!)”

Saxshoes from Pulsano! says:

July 10, 2007 at 5:12 pm

i like when ur face came on the screen! u have done the bad choice… u are a acctor… leave mixer…
ps NOTICE the glasses so fashion… where did u take it? can u send me some glasses like this in italy (a PUSANO city)???
see ulater

Akino Kodoh film exhibition in Tokyo

For those of you in Tokyo, NY-based Japanese artist Akino’s first solo exhibit “KiyaKiya” is being held at Mizuma Art Gallery in Tokyo from Oct 11 to Nov 12.

Her beautiful drawings can be seen in a new animation movie with music by John Zorn and I actually worked on the music and the sound design for this film with Zorn.

The present exhibition includes Kondoh’s new animation work “KiyaKiya” as
well as drawings, oil paintings and sketches. The term “KiyaKiya” comes from
the old Japanese expression “mune ga kiyakiya suru.” Kondoh first
encountered it in Shibusawa Tatsuhiko’s “Introduction to the collection of
girls”in the chapter written about “childhood experiences.” This expression,
which describes “an enigmatic, nostalgic, disturbing feeling,” or an
impression of “deja-vu”, is at the origin of the “KiyaKiya” series.

In the animation, a girl is performing “kamishibai” (a traditional Japanese
picture-story show). When the artist noticed the time gap between the front
and the back of the illustration cards (the episode of the story the
audience is listening to is written on the back of the previous card; that
is to say there is a 1 page difference between the front and the back of the
“kamishibai” cards) she says she felt the possibility of a different
dimension hidden right behind the everyday life.

Three worlds simultaneously develop in the work. The same girl, who exists
in the three of them, lives all three different times. These tracks curve
slowly, eventually colliding and switching directions and she continuously
circle these orbits in an endless repetition.

In the present exhibition, you will experience a uneasy and nostalgic
feeling, as if you had long forgotten an important something and were about
to remember it. Some memory locked down in your heart might very well
resurface.

At the exhibition, her first catalog “KiyaKiya” will be presold at the
gallery.

Title:Akino Kondoh Sketch Collection “KiyaKiya”
Book design:Bunpei Yorifuji
Release Date:2011/10/25
ISBN:978-4-904292-16-7
Product Dimensions:deformed A5/paper back/single-side/4 color/rounded
corners
Page:402page
Price:2,300JPY(no tax included)

It’s the first catalog by KONDOH Akino
with 200 sketches for new animation “KiyaKiya”.
Book designed by very popular designer Bunpei Yorifuji.
recreated original drawings with 4 color on a sheer paper
is beautifully overlapped as one book.

Exhibition information
KONDOH Akino “KiyaKiya”
October 11 (tue) - November 12 (sat), 2011 (closed on Sun., Mon. & Holidays)
Opening Reception: October 11 (tue): 18:00-20:00

Mizuma Art Gallery
2F Kagura Bldg., 3-13 Ichigayatamachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0843 JAPAN
tel: +81.3.3268.2500/fax: +81.3.3268.8844
http://mizuma-art.co.jp

http://mizuma-art.co.jp/gallery_info/index_e.html

KiyaKiya
2010-2011
single channel animation video
6 min. 39 sec.
Courtesy the artist and Mizuma Art Gallery

Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha

Les Paul movie (I’m in it too!)

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