JAGGED SUNRISE

AHHHHHHHH!
Time is creeping!
Halloween is right around the corner and I still don't have a costume...but I do have designs for a costume. I am going to be the spiritual embodiment of a Steel Drum Carnival Time Keeper.
I'll do it with pictures to follow...


In the meantime please enjoy this video I made to celebrate the Halloween season and my fascination with beautiful space in repose. The video is called Jagged Sunrise

Jagged Sunrise from Tyrone Tanous on Vimeo.

Jagged Sunrise features the music of Giovanni Cristiani who has a very diverse career in Hollywood music composition and development.



For example, he composed the score for Fulci's DEMONIA as well as Coppola's Lost in Translation.






I needed a piece of music for this video shot at about 5am, when darker spirits are chased away by the heat of the sun. Thanks to Love Fingers for the musical inspiration!

BACK ROOM BIRTHDAY

I forgot to mention - it went down like that.

This event had some flair and a real purpose behind it:

"...This exciting evening not only celebrates life and growth of these creative individuals but also serves as an experiment toward new modes of entertainment and the rise of the neo-supper club; restaurants transformed for specific occasions. The trend locked to small asian eateries makes sense as they are already primed for late night service. Night Clubs (irrelevant) and Bars (unfocused) sometimes just don't work. INDOCHINE (1984), the alternative to Studio 54, served well in the past and the EASY ACCESS disco take over of KHAO SARN II (2009) 25 years later proved very successful.

Lets continue, evolve, transform, maintain, and happen again...."

Makes me think of the affair I stumbled upon the other night over at TANDEM a new favorite neighborhood eatery with style. The establishment may have been conducting a secret soft opening for their backroom with dj sets from members of CSS, Hercules & L.A., and Zero 7 but it looked more like an open-minded, open-faced party to me. Check the past events on their Blogue

RIP ROC RAIDA

Back in 1996 I was bugging on music culture, DJ Shadow, Hip Hop, and booking shows at the university I attended: The Roots, Brainiac, Morphine, Digable Planets, Spore, J Mascis (when he was solo), John Cale. Music was very good to me at this time...the gateway to what my friend Felix and I would dub "The Nine Seven Style" aka "The 1997 Style" or the strange way music was moving in every direction or no direction; toward the cesspool of 2000.

This summer I bought a $17 tape deck boom box to enjoi the box of cassette tapes I have; rooftop style. I still have a Roc Raida / XMEN tape in there for sure. Not a lick of the Nine Seven on that man at all. Check the 1994 classic year air-check tape on Funkmaster Flex over at OB4ZL

JEFFREY OSBORNE

Some time back I got hooked music by an artist named OSBORNE.
Everything sounds crisp and gorgeous. Next generation digital R&B. Even the cover art screams "DEEP".




The sound, mystique, and name made me think of Jeffrey Osborne.






But its really all about this cat:




I really like the feel of this short video.
I recently saw another really great short film at the WARP20 showcase - PAPERBOY: produced (or commissioned) by Jack Spade, Directed by Mike Mills

CHILDREN'S TV?

STUDIO 54?

STEVEN J. CANNELL (LA)

TV MAN x 1000