Showing posts with label documentary film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label documentary film. Show all posts
Friday, January 19, 2018
Thursday, June 9, 2016
MINI-DOC ON PETUNIA & THE VIPERS TRACES HIS PATH FROM HITCHHIKING BUSKER TO HOT SHOT BANDLEADER
NEW ALBUM ‘DEAD BIRD ON THE HIGHWAY’ EARNING ACCLAIM
Today, a new mini-documentary was released about Petunia, bandleader of Petunia & The Vipers, which touches on his yodeling, hearing early western music as a young punk music fan, performing on street corners and in subways to get his start, Jean Cocteau and the mystique of traveling, the effects of being adopted, the sacrifices touring musicians make, and his real name:
Here’s what we’re reading about new album ‘Dead Bird on the Highway’:
"Different than anything you've ever heard... not exactly something you come across every day."
– Christina Vinson, The Boot, May 10, 2016
"Strikingly original... timeless… avant-country.”
- Sarah Murphy, Exclaim, May 13, 2016
“Infectious and invigorating… some of the best goddamn yodeling you're ever going to hear.”
- Ryan J. Prado, Portland Mercury, May 19, 2016
"While listening to Petunia and the Vipers, it's easy to pick out a variety of influences- country, some twang, western swing, and the likes. But there's also more with a hint of rock and a dash of jazz. Is this starting to sound like a recipe of sorts? Sure... if David Lynch was the guy serving it all up." – Elmore, May 12, 2016
“Wonderfully weird.”
- Rob Cullivan, Portland Tribune, May 18, 2016
“Enigmatic… a star-studded who's who of the West Coast's roots scene… Petunia — a natty-suited gentleman with floppy hair — croons, yelps and yodels as the room starts spinning around, and things take a strange turn. His words start to burble into each other in a polyrhythmic, polysyllabic flood that upsets the straight-up flaming roots boogie of the backing band. The lyrics take off down some dark and twisted lane where no love song should ever go. Suddenly you've got a wilting begonia in your hair, and you're enmeshed in a song that sounds like Marty Robbins lost a fight with a Bossa Nova. And now what the — is that a kazoo stealing the solo spot from the pedal steel?”
- Orange County Weekly, May 25, 2016
“A dynamic whoop and holler that can drop from a boisterous crescendo to mousy whisper at a moment’s notice…. Fusing early country stylings with gypsy jazz, rockabilly, and surf. At the helm of this movement are Canadian firebrands Petunia and the Vipers… strange charisma.” Feature
- Tyrell Trimble, Daily Messenger (OR), May 25, 2016
Today, a new mini-documentary was released about Petunia, bandleader of Petunia & The Vipers, which touches on his yodeling, hearing early western music as a young punk music fan, performing on street corners and in subways to get his start, Jean Cocteau and the mystique of traveling, the effects of being adopted, the sacrifices touring musicians make, and his real name:
Here’s what we’re reading about new album ‘Dead Bird on the Highway’:
"Different than anything you've ever heard... not exactly something you come across every day."
– Christina Vinson, The Boot, May 10, 2016
"Strikingly original... timeless… avant-country.”
- Sarah Murphy, Exclaim, May 13, 2016
“Infectious and invigorating… some of the best goddamn yodeling you're ever going to hear.”
- Ryan J. Prado, Portland Mercury, May 19, 2016
"While listening to Petunia and the Vipers, it's easy to pick out a variety of influences- country, some twang, western swing, and the likes. But there's also more with a hint of rock and a dash of jazz. Is this starting to sound like a recipe of sorts? Sure... if David Lynch was the guy serving it all up." – Elmore, May 12, 2016
“Wonderfully weird.”
- Rob Cullivan, Portland Tribune, May 18, 2016
“Enigmatic… a star-studded who's who of the West Coast's roots scene… Petunia — a natty-suited gentleman with floppy hair — croons, yelps and yodels as the room starts spinning around, and things take a strange turn. His words start to burble into each other in a polyrhythmic, polysyllabic flood that upsets the straight-up flaming roots boogie of the backing band. The lyrics take off down some dark and twisted lane where no love song should ever go. Suddenly you've got a wilting begonia in your hair, and you're enmeshed in a song that sounds like Marty Robbins lost a fight with a Bossa Nova. And now what the — is that a kazoo stealing the solo spot from the pedal steel?”
- Orange County Weekly, May 25, 2016
“A dynamic whoop and holler that can drop from a boisterous crescendo to mousy whisper at a moment’s notice…. Fusing early country stylings with gypsy jazz, rockabilly, and surf. At the helm of this movement are Canadian firebrands Petunia and the Vipers… strange charisma.” Feature
- Tyrell Trimble, Daily Messenger (OR), May 25, 2016
Monday, March 17, 2014
BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO INTRODUCES BUCKWHEAT’S WORLD
Kickstarter Campaign Launched to Fund Project, Ends March 31
Buckwheat Zydeco has always been at the forefront of introducing zydeco music to new audiences: The Louisiana icon and musical legend was the first zydeco artist with a major label record deal, the first on a national television show, the first to work with rock superstars, the first with music in a national television commercial. Now he aims to be the first to create and present an online video series with zydeco at the center.
Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural, Jr. and long-time collaborator, Ted Fox, will create a YouTube video series called Buckwheat’s World, and just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund it.
Buckwheat’s World will be a fresh new way to showcase Buckwheat Zydeco’s music and present a behind-the-scenes look at the richness and enchanting character of southwest Louisiana culture. In addition to new, live musical performances from the band, Buckwheat’s World episodes will feature slice-of-life scenes of Dural doing what he does every day. He might be working on one of his vehicles, tending his menagerie of animals, boiling crawfish, hanging out with friends and band mates, fishing on the bayou, taking care of Buckwheat Zydeco business. All the things that make up Buckwheat’s World will be shot and directed by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker, celebrated documentary filmmakers who got their start in Louisiana with such classics as “Yeah You Rite!” and “Louisiana Boys—Raised on Politics”.
They’ve won two Peabody Awards and kept audiences laughing and thinking with such films as “American Tongues”, “Vote for Me” and “People Like Us." Their latest film “Getting Back to Abnormal," about New Orleans politics, will be on the POV series on PBS July 14.
Kickstarter has been very supportive of the project. It just made Buckwheat’s World its “Project of the Day,” and it has been a Music Staff Pick. The campaign is ongoing and ends on March 31.
Buckwheat Zydeco also started a new side career as a blogger for the Huffington Post. His first post called, “Mardi Gras Is The Flip Side of the Blues,” posted recently.
Buckwheat Zydeco has always been at the forefront of introducing zydeco music to new audiences: The Louisiana icon and musical legend was the first zydeco artist with a major label record deal, the first on a national television show, the first to work with rock superstars, the first with music in a national television commercial. Now he aims to be the first to create and present an online video series with zydeco at the center.
Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural, Jr. and long-time collaborator, Ted Fox, will create a YouTube video series called Buckwheat’s World, and just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund it.
Buckwheat’s World will be a fresh new way to showcase Buckwheat Zydeco’s music and present a behind-the-scenes look at the richness and enchanting character of southwest Louisiana culture. In addition to new, live musical performances from the band, Buckwheat’s World episodes will feature slice-of-life scenes of Dural doing what he does every day. He might be working on one of his vehicles, tending his menagerie of animals, boiling crawfish, hanging out with friends and band mates, fishing on the bayou, taking care of Buckwheat Zydeco business. All the things that make up Buckwheat’s World will be shot and directed by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker, celebrated documentary filmmakers who got their start in Louisiana with such classics as “Yeah You Rite!” and “Louisiana Boys—Raised on Politics”.
They’ve won two Peabody Awards and kept audiences laughing and thinking with such films as “American Tongues”, “Vote for Me” and “People Like Us." Their latest film “Getting Back to Abnormal," about New Orleans politics, will be on the POV series on PBS July 14.
Kickstarter has been very supportive of the project. It just made Buckwheat’s World its “Project of the Day,” and it has been a Music Staff Pick. The campaign is ongoing and ends on March 31.
Buckwheat Zydeco also started a new side career as a blogger for the Huffington Post. His first post called, “Mardi Gras Is The Flip Side of the Blues,” posted recently.
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