hello there,
so we finally finished and released out new single and music video! the song is called “starlet” and it’s about an actress you probably know about. if you want a hint, she’s in the new avengers movie.
the making of the recording and the video were really a true community effort. we recorded the song in december at juan lopez’s west covina studio, casa de lopez. i did some guitar overdubs from home, and a month or two later, after some mixing and mastering sessions, the recording was complete!
if you’re curious about my sonic inspiration, as we were mixing i gave juan three songs to loosely follow. check ’em out and see if you can hear any similarities:
the “starlet” video was conceived with the help of my talented friend joel gemino, and we shot it over several days in april and may. story shots were done in the arts colony in downtown pomona. much thanks to robert at zoinks records—he graciously let us shoot a key part of the video in his store. the very next day, with the help of photographer betsy winchell, jim and i shot some performance and atmosphere video in little tokyo. many thanks to higashi honganji buddhist temple for letting us shoot the band parts on-location at in their awesome garden.
finally (whew!), artist dale dreiling lent his talents by doing the cover art for the single.
this is all quite a general description of the production process for the video. it was a ton of work, but i think we all learned a lot and i was happy that the artistic community was able to contribute so much to one of our songs.
finally, i want to say thank you to delaine ureno for moral support (and more) during the process.
i hope you guys dig the video, and don’t forget that if you like the song, you can download it for free at our bandcamp.
’til next time …
-edgar
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