Filming Spirit

We're working on our next video for the album Beautiful Music.  It's for the song Spirit, and the video is coming along beautifully.  We took some hillside footage yesterday close to home.  The natural lighting was superb, and the grass was exactly the shade between green and yellow that we wanted.  We got a nice view of the city, but no mountains.  It was a nice amount a hazy to provide some good ambience though, and the wind created some drama, and brought in some late day clouds.  My sister, Rina, provided us with a couple of gorgeous vintage dresses from her collection.

More work to do today!  Here are a couple of pretty stills from what we've done so far...

Costa Rica

We flew to Costa Rica for a photo shoot this weekend... well, we didn't actually go to Costa Rica, but rather to a secret local jungle for a shoot with the incomparable Cale Wilbanks.  Cale asked us to do the shoot and how could we refuse?  So we enjoyed a luxurious rainforest locale, wearing a combination of vintage and modern clothing, and showing off some nice vintage gear.

We'll be posting the pics soon.  For now, check out his beautiful photography at:
www.ocularsinister.com

New Blog, New CD, New Video

Welcome to our new blog!  We are Bumtech, a two piece band with programmed drums.  We have a lot to say all at once, since we just started blogging this evening.  To start with, we have a new cd out that we are very happy with!  It's called Beautiful Music, and stylistically, it's very alternative and quite different than anything else out right now.  The music is psychedelic, spacey, surfy, and has a shoegaze leaning and some heavy folk, even.  So far, we've been getting great feedback on the album and hope you like it too. The artwork was created by talented L.A. artist and our good friend, Pablo Ramos.

Just a little background on the title. One day I was looking up the L.A. radio station KBIG on Wikipedia, and I found out that in the 60s it had a "Beautiful music" format. I had to know more, so I looked up beautiful music, and I found out that it meant easy listening. Well, this had to be the name of our album, so there it is.



You can listen to some of the tracks here:
http://www.bumtech.com/music.html
We've just released our first video from Beautiful Music, Melrose Driving School. We filmed it and edited it ourselves, and I think it's as much fun to watch as it was to make!