Caramba, ¿Qué es esto?
No, you know what day it is.
We're very pleased to present AIRBORNE \\ A6 - Louis Baker "The Way" (re-mix produced by Devin Abrams) with his music video postcard from San Francisco, California.
Louis' voice soars in this new version of his track "The Way", curated by Devin Abrams. It was such a pleasure to edit to!
Enjoy.
Intro music by The All Seeing Hand
www.the-all-seeing-hand.bandcamp.com/
Filmed, produced and edited by The Renegade Peach Project
A beautiful track from Thomas Oliver for our music video postcard from Budapest, Hungary. Thomas' voice is powerful, rich and poignant, the lyrics sweet and enveloping. Look out - this one will snuggle up to your subconscious and leave you humming it's melody all day.
For more AIRBORNE \\ and behind the scenes:
www.renegadepeach.com/airborne
Intro music by The All Seeing Hand:
www.the-all-seeing-hand.bandcamp.com/
SOPHI is taking part in an event to raise funds for children and their families suffering from the effects of cancer and terminal illness. In looking to sponsors to shave her head bald, Sophi wants to raise essential supportive funds and also have a better understanding and empathy for those who do not have a choice in losing their hair during treatment. Bald Angels is a charitable organisation dedicated to working with children and their families in the Far North, a region so often overlooked for funding.
As well as turning to individuals and business sponsors, we're placing some crafty jars around Kerikeri for people to place any burdensome small change into. Customers who donate some coin or voice their support walk away with a warm feeling in their tummy and a hand-crafted origami paper crane. See if you can spot them all! We've left the first one at Odd Mother's Cafe, Kerikeri.
WANT TO DONATE? All donations are welcome, however large or small. Every bit counts.
Online donations can be made to Bald Angels Charitable Trust
WESTPAC 03-0351-0240110-00 (for INTERNATIONAL deposits the Swift Code is: WPACNZ2W) with "BA12" and/or "Sophi Reinholt" as the reference.
You may also donate via PayPal
If you donate online, we'd love to hear about it! E-mail us and we will send you a token of thanks;
contact@renegadepeach.com
Many thanks!
Oh, bonjour! Nous pensons que vous aimerez cette vidéo! From Paris, city of revolution and romance, we're pleased to present AIRBORNE \\ A3 - Adam Page "Bread and Sticks".
We can't believe it's already time to unveil this video set to an unreleased looping, swelling and hypnotising track from Adam Page. Despite Sophi falling ill during filming, we captured as much of this city's charm, simple gastronomic pleasures, scents (yes, scents!) and iconic structures as we could.
Intro music by The All Seeing Hand
AIRBORNE \\ is a series of music video postcards set to tracks from home, with New Zealand based artists contributing unreleased tracks to the project.
Each artist was asked to provide a time of day to film, and a keyword and/or colour to help us capture the essence of their track. Alphabethead's key word for the track was "Nocturnal" and we filmed deep into the evenings.
We're not sure if you've noticed, but there's a behind-the-scenes section for the Estère (Jordan Rakei Re-mix) full of photographs, behind-the-scenes tidbits and our Instagram feed from the time. If you're hungering for some behind the scenes travel photos, check it out!
AND WE HAVE LAUNCHED.
The first music video postcard for our new series AIRBORNE \\ was released this morning!
AIRBORNE \\ is a series of music video postcards set to tracks from home, with New Zealand based artists contributing unreleased tracks to the project.
Each artist was asked to provide a keyword and/or colour to help us capture the essence of their track. Estère's key word for the track was "Flicker" and her selected colours were maroon and gold. Alchemy. Enjoy!
Intro music by The All Seeing Hand
www.the-all-seeing-hand.bandcamp.com/
AIRBORNE\\ was filmed, edited and produced by the Renegade Peach Project.
Here it is folks! The trailer to our first AIRBORNE \\ series.
AIRBORNE \\ took us on a journey circumnavigating the world while collaborating with a group of amazing artists from New Zealand. Each artist gave us an unreleased track before we left, a time of day to film their music video postcard, and a location to film it in. Some gave us colours and keywords to help further articulate their music.
The series kicks off TOMORROW with our MVP for the lovely Estère, for her remixed track by Jordan Rakei.
Trailer music by
THE ALL SEEING HAND
Well, we're finishing up the last of our edits for AIRBORNE \\ and our music video postcards are making us remember and re-engage with all our adventures. We've created the opening credits and thanks to THE ALL SEEING HAND, we have some beautiful music to accompany them. The track sets the mood for our music video postcard series perfectly - thanks guys!
CHECK OUT THE ALL SEEING HAND!
THE ALL SEEING HAND
Image by Daily Secretion
San Francisco is lovely, but New York City has won over our hearts, particularly the Bushwick area, in Brooklyn. We were lucky to stay in an industrial area frequented and inhabited by creatives, specifically in a notorious apartment, the 'Sky Fortress'. Our hosts were an amazing group of individuals who welcomed us with open arms and whose artistic and travelling endeavours are thoroughly inspiring. They and their friends (Stephanie, and 'The Brians', Brian and Brian being the most memorable of these satellite friends) hosted a BBQ and movie night on their building's rooftop, which provides a 360 degree view of Brooklyn and the Manhattan skyline. Unbelievable.
We're hoping to return to the Sky Fortress next year to work on a few projects - we'll be back!
AIRBORNE \\ updates - NEW YORK CITY : Joe Blossom
We had a week to capture the spirit of New York City, and our keywords for this video (as pitched by Joe Blossom) were 'Nostalgia' and 'Abstract'. We filmed the bustling, humid city in the magical light of twilight as well as in Subway stations, and on the rooftop of the Sky Fortress. We captured snippets of New York wherever we went, from Williamsburg to Midtown and we are looking forward to editing our music video postcard together.
SAN FRANCISCO : Louis Baker
What a whirlwind! We had 24 hours to film this video - and San Francisco gave us fog, clouds, bright sunshine and even a hummingbird. The colourful, stand-alone houses and the summer chill on the other coastline of the USA provided such a contrast to our New York experience. We were lucky enough to participate in working on part of a decorative piece that will be featured as a shrine at the Burning Man festival this year, and that will be burned right underneath the Burning Man. Such a creative ebb and flow to this hilly, foggy city.
MORE SOON! We're getting very excited that we've wrapped our filming and will be able to get our music video postcards out by MID AUGUST >>
We're travelling through the Baltic region and have really enjoyed these smaller Northern European states. In Lithuania we walked amongst the peeling buildings of Vilnius' Old Town's wartime Jewish Ghetto, visited galleries and enjoyed people watching in the large open squares with delicious varieties of the extensive range of Lithuanian beers. Riga, Latvia, was an unexpected highlight - we found that it deserves it's nickname "the Paris of the North", and spent hours walking around the Old Town, the Central Market and Russian Jewish Quarter. We were lucky that our trip corresponded with the XI Latvian Youth Song and Dance Festival with children and teenagers attired in traditional dress and performing for the admiring crowds.
We head to Estonia today, before making our way over to the USA to film our AIRBORNE \\ Music Video Postcard for JOE BLOSSOM.
We'll keep you posted.
We're editing up a storm here in Poland, and were pleasantly pleased to see that Myele Manzanza Music has just released the video that we filmed and edited for their WOMAD 2015 set. Presenting the uplifting "Drum Duet / Me I Know Him" performed by Myele Manzanza and the Eclectic, live at WOMAD 2015.
We loved Budapest. The first city that neither of us had been to before, it was a welcome treat. The sunsets in Budapest on the banks of the 'Duna' Danube River are spectacularly vivid. We also recommend Air BnB - we rented a wonderful Budapest apartment that made us feel very immersed in everyday Hungarian life. In Budapest, the beer is cheap and the food portions enormous (except for when it comes to gelato). The local liquor "Unicum" (est. 1790) has a potent fragrance derived from cherries. The Budapest Metro is Sophi's favourite one thus far - a charming bouncing Soviet blue tin-can.
The thermal baths are a welcome treat after a day of traversing Budapest streets filming (we recommend Gellért). It was easy to feel a romantic hue falling over the city as we filmed - imagining Thomas Oliver's Weissenborn instrumental as the light danced + played over the buildings, and people chatted and laughed by the Danube.
That wraps our filming in Europe! We're travelling through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia before we begin the next stint of filming - in the USA.
It's been great to be back in Berlin, and we're surprised by how much it has changed. A lot less grunge than when we were last here, so we actively sought it out by visiting many of the abandoned sites to film. We loved the abandoned swimming pool, the abandoned US spy base and the abandoned Tempelhof Airport (now the city's largest public park).
We also managed to find some new gems on our down time - such as Stadtbad Neukolln (an Art Nouveau-esque / faux-Roman public swimming pool), a Ramones museum-come-cafe, brunch paradise Papilles, + minimalist design-haven cafe westberlin.
Our key words and key times to film from BIG FLIP THE MASSIVE?
GRUNGE. DAY + NIGHT. We're in the process of editing and we're looking forward to presenting our mash mix of visuals for this quick-paced + deliciously original BFTM track in August.
Peace.
We have meandered from AIRBORNE \\ locations to Amsterdam, and it has definitely exceeded expectations - the slender brick buildings beside the fanning canal network, the charming river boats, the accessibility of the city by foot, the tram network, but by far most strikingly, the endless lines of cyclists casually milling past - so fluent with their vehicles that they pass with an ear to a cellphone or pinning up hair, or with a handful of children balanced around them. There are also the coffee houses.
We've loved being in Amsterdam - and will definitely return. While in Amsterdam we also found that the fantastic coastal music festival Tora! Tora! Tora! released our wrap video of the highlights of Tora! Tora! Tora! 2015. It was another fantastic year, punctuated by the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse on the Saturday Night! We love this festival of good times, great music, soothing coffee, sand, surf, relaxed parents and freed little wildlings able to let their hair loose.
We'll see you there again next year.
Live recorded music featured in the video from Tora! Tora! Tora! 2015 artists Amiria Grenell, The Bones and Fortunes.
Earlier in the year Mark travelled down to Wellington and Stuart Island to work with the good folks at Goodnature to put together this video. Native Island is the first NZ island to have had rats removed by Goodnature self-resetting multi-kill traps. Great work!
The video has just been released today. If you want more information on Goodnature check out their website: www.goodnature.co.nz
We're in Cambodia! We began filming in Siem Reap and are now in Phnom Penn editing to the fresh track from Estère. This MVP (music video postcard) is looking to be a magical journey through time and nature. Met some fantastic people, and recommend trying out Cambodian BBQ (perhaps not for the faint of gut).
We're on the Thai island of Koh Chang, to the South East of Bangkok. A few days of quiet and editing before moving on to our next AIRBORNE \\ location - Cambodia.
We're in Bangkok filming our first AIRBORNE \\ music video postcard for ALPHABETHEAD. What a fabulous way to start this project off - we're really enjoying this city. The heat hits you like a wall when you step outside of the airport, and the smells and hustle bustle of people immediately envelops you. Bangkok is a city heaving with activity, and yet it's relatively easy to find exquisite pockets of calm.
It's a city of extremes - poverty and opulence, extreme humidity and air conditioned bubbles, people utilising every accessible resource and in turn creating a staggering mass of expended materials. The markets are a hive of people exchanging wares and currency, preparing food, riding scooters and bicycles, with shrines to a variety of deities watching over it all. Our favourite markets have been the less tourist-frequented "Amulet Market" and "Flower Market". The people are warm, welcoming and hospitable, the street stall food absolutely delicious. As Mark put it, "It's like we're living in a restaurant!"
We are filming at night time for Alphabethead's video and are making our way through the night markets and night streets, capturing the pulse of both Alphabethead's track and this mesmerising city. Here are some iPhone images to keep you going.
And here it is, folks. Last, but in no fathomable way least, here are our final collaborating AIRBORNE \\ artists. THOMAS OLIVER and ADAM PAGE, both brilliant musicians and composers, entirely dedicated to their respective crafts, and both are all-round GOOD humans.
Thomas Oliver is a fantastic vocalist, songwriter, and is world renowned for his mastery of the Weissenborn. His work leaves an indelible soul-lifting mark upon audiences. Adam Page captivates crowds of all ages with his multi-instrumentalist wizardry, wielding his looping pedals and cartwheeling vocal prowess. He has performed in events ranging from fringe festivals to working with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to perform his first symphony.
And thusly, our full AIRBORNE \\ line-up is revealed!
THOMAS OLIVER
www.thomasoliver.co.nz
ADAM PAGE
http://adampage.prosite.com/
