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New big collab – Call for entries
You may have seen the christmas collab organized by Ein Astronaut last december with 33 musicians from all over the world. If not, shame on you! Check it out right now. For those who, at the time, didn’t know about this project or dare to be part of it, Ein Astronaut starts a new big collab. So far, almost a [...]
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Would it be the very first videosong ?
This is a Mike Oldfield video from 1975 and it might be the very first videosong. Ok, we can be sure that the audio hasn’t been recorded during the video shooting, but still, the concept of the vS is really here: the split screen and every instruments are shown. Wikipedia quote : A music video was made for this song, [...]
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YouTube musicians for Christmas collab
Ein Astronaut needs you. So, if you’re a youtube musician and wanna take part, send him an email and tell him what you’re up to at christmascollab@einastronaut.com.
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Tradition Revisited
The concept became famous around the world through Playing for Change and their superbly revisited “Stand by me”. This one is from Turkey and is a little more sophisticated. A traditional song that probably nobody has even heard of, a bunch of unknown people and some weird instruments… and yet, it’s terrific ! The melody is beautiful, the audio editing is smart and [...]
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Jack Conte, Monsieur videoSongs
He’s quite certainly the godfather of videoSongs. People often credit him as being the inspiration for their first videoSongs. I was myself no exception to that. But did Jack Conte invent videoSongs ? The answer is: nope. Jack’s first video dates back to march 2008, but this one is from 2006 and might very well be the first one. But if [...]
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What is a videoSong?
I discovered my first videoSong completely by chance. A little over a year ago, as I was hanging around on the web looking for some video demos of the ElectroHarmonix effect pedals, I stumbled upon this video. Drawn by the beautiful voice of the female singer, I did some querying and quickly discovered a band’s name: “Pomplamoose”. Then their video “Beat the horse” [...]
