Dec/091
My Indie Life: Behind the scenes – Ep 1
The toughest part in making My Indie Life probably isn’t going to be in any of the filming or the editing, it’s going to be in finding amazing music that most people have never heard of. Episode 1 was an exception, though… the two artists we featured are musicians that Lexi and I have been big fans of for awhile now.
Lexi first found Sean Fournier on thesixtyone.com and immediately and excitedly shared his music with me, especially since his album is completely free! His EP, “Oh My” is amazing, and I will be surprised if he doesn’t become more well known soon. Some of his songs do sound similar to the stylings of Jason Mraz, but there’s something refreshing and magical about Sean’s music… part of it the emotion in his voice, part of it his cool and unique vocal sound, and maybe part of it is just that he’s someone new and unheard of, but either way, he’s great.
I first was introduced to My Dear Disco when I met the group’s bassist, Christian Carpenter, at a friend’s place before their show at Martyr’s in Chicago awhile back. Watching them live, there was something different than a lot of other bands I’ve seen in that venue. My Dear Disco was just ON. Their rendition of Stevie Wonder’s “All I Do” was what first drew me in. I had actually never heard that song of Stevie’s before that night, but they made me love it! Going back to a best of Stevie Wonder album a few days later, I was even more blown away that (in my opinion), My Dear Disco mastered the song even better than Stevie himself! The other thing that impressed me seeing MDD was how together they were live, especially on the staccato notes that all 7 members of the band seemed to hit together at the exact same moment.
Episode 1 was a success, and we definitely owe that to the amazing talents of Sean Fournier and My Dear Disco.
Robby Silver
December 3rd, 2009
Just watched episode 1, very impressive post production work.