Very high quality video clips for songs

Double-bass

This official video for the song SHADE, I shot using a puppet animation technique. It exists alongside the song available for download on iTunes and other associated products including a Tshirt of the Jazz Dog. Leo can assist with all levels of promotion using video.

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Two camera shoots now available

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Doug de Vries trio shot LIVE with two cameras, and recorded acoustically. The soundtrack was later mixed and mastered at my studio in West Footscray and then optimised for Youtube playback. The brief was to produce a video that had the feel of a live gig without all the complications associated with trying to film [...]

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Milton

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MILTON is a dance band with Ray Pereira, David Marama and others playing long grooves with sharp breaks that will keep the whole family dancing. Like MILTON on Facebook Playing dance music at Kindred Studios in Yarraville on the last Sunday of every month starting on April 29th Details below   Come out with the WHOLE [...]

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Why Australians have large houses

My mother always said – Land prices go up, houses fall down. So after 12 years in our house we realised it was time for some repairs. A simple list of what needed to be fixed, quickly turned into the great Australian lucid dream. It all seems so innocent. When you are just drawing lines [...]

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12 times 2

Cover from the May release

In 2012 I’ve decided to combine two of my passions – Music and Videography. So for 12 months I am releasing new audio to iTunes and corresponding video to Youtube on the first of every month. Incredibly great musicians will be playing on the recordings and for the videos I have assembled a fine cast [...]

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Kid’s animations I produced

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Have a look at all 39 videos I produced for Brunswick South West Primary School

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One legged standing poses

Two left feet

In any month I do some practice standing around on one leg   to maintain my sense of balance as I age.   Yoga is great   but sometimes it leaves me feeling like   I have   two left feet

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Collins St 5pm

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This is short piece of music I wrote as a contemporary reflection of the famous 1955 John Brack painting Collins St 5pm. I am playing alto flute and Doug DeVries is playing guitar and the timpani are sampled. Collins St 5pm (mp3 878kb) Its also been licensed as the intro music for Leon Gettler and [...]

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Celebrating 40yrs of music 1971 – 2011

Alto flute - recording in India 2011

YEP its been 40 years in the music business and I use that term lightly, since I began touring with the National Boys choir in 1971. So I’m celebrating with a bunch of old pictures AND a never ending stream of new music and videos during the course of 2011/12. If you have any old [...]

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Freedom’s just another word for somewhere that we’ve bombed

I’ve noticed that I read the word Freedom more often, when there is a bombing raid going on in a country with large oil reserves. The Freedoms are being defended to avoid humanitarian crisis in the fight against the war on <insert rhetoric here>. The humanitarian crisis is averted and the no fly zone victory [...]

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