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Music News - Goodshirt cover kiwi classic 'Sierra Leone'
07 October 2014 - 0 Comments
Goodshirt are pleased to announce their latest creation, a dynamic 80’s synth fuelled cover version of the 1983 kiwi pop classic Sierra Leone by Coconut Rough.
The idea for the single emerged at band practice when keys player Gareth Thomas started playing a synth riff:
“I initially thought I was playing Money Money Money by Abba” says Thomas, “but when Mike (Beehre) chimed in on the drums I realized it was Coconut Rough!”
The band enjoyed jamming on it so much they started playing it live, hence the cover single was born.
Goodshirt enlisted New York animation company Circle Line Projects, the cooperative of Ana Mouyis, Zachary Zezima and kiwi spatial artist, Tim Brown to make the music video, giving them total creative license. Inspired by the song and by the works of Len Lye, the creators combined different media such as live-action footage on green screen, hand painted textures and imagery, video, digital animation and animation scratched into 35mm film.
The result is a beautiful psychedelic pastel mélange of mystical imagery as the protagonist, lost in the desert, battles with his sanity, descending into a trance-like unconscious state.
The new video is premiering exclusively on the NZ Herald website this week. View the video here.
To celebrate the release, Goodshirt are giving away their single for free on Soundcloud.
Goodshirt are performing at The Tuning Fork on December 17th playing support for Evan Dando and the Lemonheads. Stay tuned for forthcoming singles and shows in the near future.
The idea for the single emerged at band practice when keys player Gareth Thomas started playing a synth riff:
“I initially thought I was playing Money Money Money by Abba” says Thomas, “but when Mike (Beehre) chimed in on the drums I realized it was Coconut Rough!”
The band enjoyed jamming on it so much they started playing it live, hence the cover single was born.
Goodshirt enlisted New York animation company Circle Line Projects, the cooperative of Ana Mouyis, Zachary Zezima and kiwi spatial artist, Tim Brown to make the music video, giving them total creative license. Inspired by the song and by the works of Len Lye, the creators combined different media such as live-action footage on green screen, hand painted textures and imagery, video, digital animation and animation scratched into 35mm film.
The result is a beautiful psychedelic pastel mélange of mystical imagery as the protagonist, lost in the desert, battles with his sanity, descending into a trance-like unconscious state.
The new video is premiering exclusively on the NZ Herald website this week. View the video here.
To celebrate the release, Goodshirt are giving away their single for free on Soundcloud.
Goodshirt are performing at The Tuning Fork on December 17th playing support for Evan Dando and the Lemonheads. Stay tuned for forthcoming singles and shows in the near future.
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