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Internet superstar Tay Zonday will be performing his song "Chocolate Rain" on the Jimmy Kimmel show tonight. As for any pre-show jitters, Zonday blogged the following on Myspace:

Can't decide whether to attempt it with the keyboard or do it with a backing track, which I am more confident in. I will probably err on the side of the backing track. Though the keyboard would be very acoustic and intimate . . . I also dislike the risk of a comping mistake on semi-live (one hour delay) television. There's no time to correct anything in post-production. On the other hand, I still look very stiff when singing backing tracks . . . either way could turn out good or bad.

Zonday closed his blog entry by saying:

I have about 48 hours to try to learn the Chocolate Rain lyrics without reading them off a sheet.

Our concern, "where's the bridge?"

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We've been digging the Professionals version of "The Theme From the Godfather" ever since the Corporal turned us on to it a couple months back.

As for the Basenji Dog version of the song. . .

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Via WFMU and somehow messed up by the above ODEO player so it sounds as if it's being performed by Alvin and the Chipmunks. Good times.

The Oxford American Magazine's new Web Extras installment, THE FRESH EYE OF HENRYK FANTAZOS, prompts us to do two things:

1. Show off Lucky Dog Audio new media work.

2. Post a picture of a painting called "Okra Smugglers."

Produced here at Lucky Dog Audio Post, the "Face of the South" slideshow features one of our eerier pieces of custom music. We recorded an electric guitar and a bowed upright bass and then dropped the mix into an IXI slicer to create the ambient sounds that accompany Henryk Fantazos's surreal southern paintings.

Fantazos is a fascinating painter. For the most part, the images in the slideshow address rural settings in a painterly style desribed as “Proto-Renaissance.” Originally from Poland, Fantazos "painted his way out of Poland, to France, to Germany, then to New York City as a Fellow in the Kosciuszko Foundation." After moving to Hillsborough, North Carolina, Fantazos "announced he would paint the 'Face of the South,' a face he saw disappearing."

Click here to view the slideshow.

Here's some more recent work, this time another collaborative custom music project with Sellout Music.

For this :30 TV spot, the client was looking for something minimal and "hip." In particular, they wanted an electronic arrangement based around an acoustic instrument. Sellout came up with the meat and bones of this piece, a plaintive, delayed piano figure that totally sets the tone for the stark, lonesome city shots. From there we messed things up. We slaved the piano track in Ableton Live to Pro Tools and cranked the Pro Tools tempo down to around 80 bpm. This forced the Ableton track into all sorts of fits. The piano track stuttered and glitched as it tried to match the slower tempo. From there we added a beat deconstructor to add some color to our shuddering piano track. After all that processing we had a handful of glitchy sounds for our mix. Aside from the piano processing, we also used Ableton along with Reason to write our rhythm and bass tracks.

Credits:

Intake Studios

Sellout Music

Since it's Monday, here's Spinal Tap performing Big Bottom with "every bass player in the know universe."

Here's footage of Bjork performing live on Later with Jools Holland. This is inspirational and cool on so many levels. The song is dedicated to Faroese Independence. Plus, some guy in the band is playing a Reactable! Wow! I am enamored both by that and by that dirgy synth-bass line. And check out the the French Horn players. So colorful! So dissonant! Also, did you notice? Paul seems to be digging the song too.

via MeFi

Rare footage of thee Beatles recording "Hey Bulldog." Description reads:

A few years back Apple Corps discovered that film footage of the Beatles, that was used for a promo film for "Lady Madonna", was in fact footage of the Beatles recording "Hey Bulldog".

It was shown on ABC's 20/20, but with Elizabeth Vargus talking over the entire piece!!! But thanks to the magic of non-linear editing I was able to place a recording of "Hey Bulldog" over the 20/20 piece.

Ah yes. Thank you, you magic-of-non-linear-editing guy, whoever you are.

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PS. I like the Renault ad the best.

PPS. The Popcorn Song has a website.

PPPS. I like the First Moog Quartet version of the "Popcorn Song" best.

Christopher DeLaurenti was recording the orchestra. It was intermission and the orchestra was warming up. They didn't know they were being recorded. That's because the guy lurking near the orchestra pit (Christopher DeLaurenti) was wearing a black leather vest fitted with microphones in the shoulders. Now Delaurenti has released a cd of these orchestral sounds - human coughs and sneezes mixed with bassoon belches and timpani rolls. Favorite Intermissions is a collection of these guerrilla audio recordings. Described as "a very new and weird direction in 'bootleg' field recordings," the cd includes this track.

Links:

delaurenti.net - Christopher DeLaurenti

Christopher DeLaurenti - ZeBox Artist

Classical Music - Favorite Intermissions - Music - New York Times