Canada

CANADA is a collective of directors based in Barcelona. http://www.lawebdecanada.com

Luis Cerveró, Nicolás Méndez and Lope Serrano come from similar artistic backgrounds and decided to join forces in 2008 to enhance and develop their personal take on filmmaking.

Since Canada's inception, they have established themselves as Spain's most desired and sought after music video directors, working for almost every independent label and groundbreaking artist. Actually the reason this blog is called Bombay is after the El Guincho song "Bombay", great video full of stunning imagery and woman, it seems to work for the internet generation, the ones who like to flick channel/web sites every couple of seconds.


They have just recently finished work on The Vaccines newest video "All In White" and although i'm not that taken by the song or the Vaccines for that matter, (nothing to do with the hype) i noticed that it had to be the guys from Canada with a hand on this video, it had their prints all over it. So i thought i would give you a few videos of theirs for you're viewing pleasure.

Erykah Badu

Erika Badu's new video "Out My Mind, Just in Time" is following in the footsteps of Radioheads "Lotus Flower" with this enigmatic dance.

Gil Scott-Heron

It's never good to wake up in the morning and check out what's happening in twitter world and seeing all these R.I.P's. But when its someone that's music meant so much to you through the years it adds another tinge of sadness. Through my college years he sound tracked some great nights and just recently when he released "I'm New Here" he once again became my artist of the moment, with this retrospective album to his drug addiction, ego and general hard times.

I was lucky enough to see him at Electric Picnic festival last summer, what a gig it was too, full of the funky grooves you would expect and the rasping voice that had weathered well through the years. I gig i will never forget.

Gone but never forgotten.

Happy 70th Bob Dylan

Pokey LaFarge

Came across this the other week at http://www.npr.org/music/

A great set from Pokey LaFarge with his band "The South City Three" who accompany him on his album "Riverboat Soul", which i just got in through the post the other day. This infectious mix of American jazz, swing and country blues was the perfect sound to go with the sunny weather recently so just had to buy it. The St. Louis musician has just recently signed to Jack White's Third Man Records for his next album, so i will be keeping a close eye to see how things progress here.

Hipsters

Just came across these videos again on Youtube, ah the joys of the internet and spare time.

Alvin Diec Posters

Great posters from Alvin Diec http://www.alvindiec.com/

More Dieter Rams

http://www.bibliothequedesign.com/projects/exhibition-and-environment/design-museum-dieter-rams/

Music For Dieter Rams

Click below to be taken to the bandcamp page of Jon Brookes to hear an album dedicated too and inspired by one of the greatest designers of modern domestic design - Dieter Rams. Fitting that this record is so minimal as Dieter' used to explain his design as"Weniger, aber besser" which loosely translates as "Less, but better" 


(from the sleevenotes) 
This is a study on limited resources. The space between a second.  "Every sound on this record, from the melodic sounds to the percussion, the atmospheric effects to the bass lines 

originates from the Braun AB-30 alarm clock.

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http://jonbrooks.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-dieter-rams

Isaac Cordal

Small interventions in the big city

http://www.isaac.alg-a.org/

(Source http://dossemanas.tumblr.com)

Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (Revisited)

The Beastie Boys have gone and delivered a belting 30min extended video as a sequel to the original "(You gotta) Fight for your right (to party)". This video came out to commemorate 25 years since the original release and comes with an all star cast of Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, and Jack Black who play older and younger versions of Beastie Boys Mike D, Ad-Rock, and MCA. 


There are also cameos from Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Rainn Wilson, Ted Danson, Steve Buscemi, Will Arnett, Kirsten Dunst and David Cross to name just a few.