Frilly Military: a homemade pop video

[imomus]

Well, after telling you yesterday that some of my new stuff is "hits in a parallel universe", I thought I'd show you. Here's a homemade pop video I shot yesterday in Kyoto, cycling through a shopping arcade on the west side of the city. It's for "Frilly Military", one of the songs that'll be on the new album. Click the picture to see it. It's 15.7MB.



The song (a big hit in a parallel shopping arcade, for sure) is a reworking of one I wrote for Kahimi Karie back in 2001. I recorded and produced it in Osaka this month, and John Fashion Flesh Talaga reworked it (especially the skippy buildy bit at the end) in Bay City, Michigan. And now it's everywhere at once (there's even a blocky-dizzy low-res version of it on YouTube).

Oh, "Frilly Military" is published by Sony Music Japan. And the video was made with iMovie. Love those cheap and cheerful effects! My "Ocky Milk" album is due out this summer.

Comments

[silenceinspades.livejournal.com]

that's sort of brilliant.
i've made some pop videos with imovie also
http://www.vimeo.com/clip=46992.
though i could not lip sync as professionaly as you.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Nice, that had a sort of Devil Robots (http://www.devilrobots.com/) in hell feel to it! The scene with the frying poodle reminded me of when I was in a restaurant in Paris with Ariel Wizman and Julien Baer once, and they were petting someone's white poodle, and suddely they grabbed it, formed an Ubuesque procession, and trotted towards the kitchen singing "Aux micro-ondes! To the microwave!" Everyone in the restaurant tittered nervously, not knowing whether they quite meant it or not.