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Red Abbott's "Reversed Sides"
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Musician Bert Brown creates imaginative music videos for his own innovative band Red Abbott. In his latest red-and-white mini-opus, set in a space-age geometric fantasy world filled with mechanized robotic creatures, each figure in the animated piece is representative of the individual band members. "I'm the crowned and bearded chap," says the 26-year-old Brown, who grew up in Massachusetts with his fellow bandmates, and now lives and works in Queens, New York doing motion graphics design for RelaTV Media.
Brown, who was previously spotlighted at The Daily Reel with his video for "These Walls," crafted his "Reversed Sides" video from scratch: hand drawing, composing, storyboarding, directing and animating it all in After Effects. He also produced the song's drums and synths, with the contributions of his fellow Red Abbott musicians Chip Means (guitar, vocals) and J.A. Madera (piano, vocals).
The Sarah Lawrence College grad's original 2.5D animated work is mirrored by his unique musical approach. Each band member of Red Abbott lives in a different city (New York, Portland, Maine; and Charlotte, NC), so their album was formed "by one person coming up with a track for a song, sending that track to the next person who would add to it and send it to the next, and so on until the song was ready to be given a full arrangement with all its new parts," explains Brown. "We completed 12 tracks and our album is now waiting to be printed. It's an electro/rock/indie kind of thing, but with the care given that was allowed from the lack of needing coordinated studio time."
-Anthony Kaufman
Bert Brown
Music Video, Animation
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Bert Brown
Music : Red Abbott
