T-Shirts for the Masses!

A while back we made a really awesome t-shirt.  Now you can finally get it online, exclusively through Le Spec Gallery!  Le Spec is a wonderful new spot for arts and culture near Historic Filipinotown and Echo Park, definitely worth checking out for fun events, or just to see the artwork.  They are also carrying our cd, Beautiful Music, in the shop.

 

The shirt is very comfy and stylish, and made on American Apparel.  Everyone wants to know about the guy on the shirt.  It’s our good friend, Nate, our neighbor and postman back in Portland.  He made his own Bumtech shirt and posted a pic of himself wearing it on our new myspace page as our first posting back in the day.  We took it and created this cool design.  His hair really was pink!

 

So support Bumtech and Le Spec with this purchase you won’t regret.  It’s a damn fine garment.

 

Go shopping at Le Spec's online store!

 

 

 

 

Video 2: Spirit

Our second music video is out!  The video is for the song Spirit, off of our new album, Beautiful Music.  We filmed it in the wilds of West LA, where we call home.  The first day was filmed in Baldwin Hills, with spectacular views of the city as a backdrop, and the magical natural lighting that brought the film industry to Los Angeles.  On day two we filmed at the old defunct railroad crossing at Westwood Blvd.  This location will eventually be the site of the Expo Line light rail all the way out to the ocean.  For now it is a lush, grassy wilderness.

Spirit

In all I do, I will remember you
In all I see,
Your spirit lives and breathes
The city lights stretch endlessly
In the crashing ocean tides
I feel it on the sundrenched hillside 

I was afraid, so I turned away
I was alone, I chose to separate
In all I do, I will remember you
In all I see, 
Your spirit lives and breathes
In the mountains and the ocean breeze
In the burning summer skies
In the faces of the people in the street

In all I see, I sense fragility
All that I know, I don't know anything
In all I do, I will remember you
In all I see,
Your spirit lives and breathes
The city lights stretch endlessly
I see it in your eyes
I feel it on the sundrenched hillside

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!