ANDREW ROGER

In shooting live music in Omaha, I’ve become a friend with Django Greenblatt-Seay of Love Drunk Studio, a purveyor of one-take live music videos. Here’s the basic approach. Put a band in a unique place. Record studio quality sound. And shoot a video of the song being recorded. Django has helped shoot Ingrained videos and I’ve shot Love Drunk videos. We are a great combo. Even better Django brought Daniel Muller (another LD and Ingrained contributor) and Andrew and Angie Norman of HearNebraska. Love Drunk has been very popular in Omaha but we wanted to spread the joy of the good life and its music. So we packed up a van and have been traveling across the country shooting videos of bands in their cities. I’m going to post the first couple here for your enjoyment.
First up is KC’s Everyday/Everynight playing in front of the Nelson-Atkins Museum

And here is Cassie Morgan and the Lonely Pine playing “These Years” in an abandoned factory in South St. Louis.

Many more videos coming down the pipes. Check Love Drunk out for all the updates. Also like Love Drunk and HearNebraska and Ingrained on facebook.

I’ve been working quite a bit without updating it all here. As I’ve settled into Omaha as homebase I’ve been going to alot of shows and started to shoot some songs of bands. After the Conduits video, I got a huge local response from other shooters who wanted to help out. And slowly I’ve built a small community of DSLR shooters who will come out to shows with me. To give this ongoing series a brand, I came up with Ingrained. Godard mused that filmmaking is a beautiful fraud for the media used to capture a moment is limited by its very structure. It’s only an approximation of reality. But somehow we look into the grain, past the pixel, and come out with something greater. So somewhere inbetween the blurry line of live music, music video, and documentary, Ingrained exists.

Progressively, I’ll be posting videos here until we’re up to date.

First up is from Kyle Harvey’s Christmas in Outer Space CD Release show. Kyle is a minimalist singer/songwriter who has been talking about this idea to make an alien-themed Christmas album. This year he actually made it and put together a show with balloons and lazer lights and dancing space babes, all completely out of character for Kyle, but so awesome.

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