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The official video for the Magnetic Fields' "'01 Have You Seen It in the Snow" from the 2017 album 50 Song Memoir, chronicling the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year. Video created by Alex Basco Koch & José Zayas. Production Company: Ghost Corporeal. Originally created for the Magnetic Fields 50 Song Memoir concert tour directed by José Zayas.
Watch This VideoThe Magnetic Fields' 50 Song Memoir chronicles the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year. He sings vocals on all 50 songs and plays more than 100 instruments, from ukulele to piano to drum machine to abacus. Unlike his previous work, the lyrics are nonfiction—a mix of autobiography (bedbugs, Buddhism, buggery) and documentary (hippies, Hollywood, hyperacusis). Available in five-LP and five-CD editions including a 100-page book with an extensive interview by Daniel Handler and facsimile handwritten lyrics by Merritt, and as a standalone book with a full-album download card.
Watch This VideoThe official video for the Magnetic Fields' "'92 Weird Diseases" from the 2017 album 50 Song Memoir, chronicling the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year. Video created by Stephanie Beattie, Alex Basco Koch & José Zayas. Production Company: Ghost Corporeal. Originally created for the Magnetic Fields 50 Song Memoir concert tour directed by José Zayas.
Watch This VideoThe official video for the Magnetic Fields' "'88 Ethan Frome" from the 2017 album 50 Song Memoir, chronicling the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year. Video Illustration: Alex Petrowsky. Animation: John Erickson. Produced by Alex Basco Koch & José Zayas for Ghost Corporeal. Originally created for the Magnetic Fields 50 Song Memoir concert tour directed by José Zayas.
Watch This VideoRhiannon Giddens performs "Following the North Star," an instrumental track she wrote for her album Freedom Highway. She wrote or co-wrote nine of the songs on the album, which also includes a traditional tune and two civil rights-era songs. The video was made by Harvey K. Robinson at The Cypress House in Breaux Bridge, LA, the studio of multi-instrumentalist Dirk Powell, who co-produced Freedom Highway with Giddens there.
Watch This VideoThe official video for the Magnetic Fields' "'85 Why I Am Not a Teenager" from the 2017 album 50 Song Memoir, chronicling the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year. Video director & animator: Alexander Petrowsky. Editor & Animator: Ryan Powell. Produced by Alex Basco Koch & José Zayas for Flying Fish Productions. Originally created for the Magnetic Fields 50 Song Memoir concert tour directed by José Zayas.
Watch This VideoThe official video for the Magnetic Fields' "'71 I Think I'll Make Another World" from the 2017 album 50 Song Memoir, chronicling the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year. Video created by Alex Basco Koch, Roger Miller & José Zayas. Illustrations by Roger Miller. Produced by Ghost Corporeal. Originally created for the Magnetic Fields 50 Song Memoir concert tour directed by José Zayas.
Watch This VideoThe official video for the Magnetic Fields' "'68 A Cat Called Dionysus" from the 2017 album 50 Song Memoir, chronicling the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year. The video was directed by José Zayas & Alex Basco Koch. Illustrations by Alexander Petrowsky. Animation by John Erickson. Produced at Ghost Corporeal. Originally created for the Magnetic Fields 50 Song Memoir concert tour directed by José Zayas.
Watch This VideoRhiannon Giddens performs "Come Love Come," a song she wrote for her new album, Freedom Highway. She wrote or co-wrote nine of the songs on the album, which also includes a traditional tune and two civil rights-era songs. The video was made by Harvey K. Robinson at The Cypress House in Breaux Bridge, LA, the studio of multi-instrumentalist Dirk Powell, who co-produced Freedom Highway with Giddens there.
Watch This VideoThe official video for the Magnetic Fields' "'12 You Can Never Go Back to New York" from the 2017 album 50 Song Memoir, chronicling the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year. Video created by Stephanie Beattie, Alex Basco Koch & José Zayas for Ghost Corporeal. Originally created for the Magnetic Fields 50 Song Memoir concert tour directed by Zayas.
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