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Become a Piano Guys Founder and get our Limited Edition Piano Guys Album (YouTube Hits Vol. 1) here: http://www.thepianoguys.com/music
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Become a Piano Guys Founder and get our Limited Edition Piano Guys Album (YouTube Hits Vol. 1) here: http://www.thepianoguys.com/music
Support us by downloading this song at one of the following links:
Our site - http://thepianoguys.com/newstore/pepo...
iTunes - http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/the...
Amazon.com - http://www.amazon.com/Peponi-Paradise...
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A special thanks to one of our Founders 1LAW.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/1LAW/12...
If you liked this video you'll LOVE our version of these tunes:
Adele Rolling in the Deep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUjWJS...
David's Guetta's Without You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfRtPb...
The story behind the song:
Each time we write/arrange a tune we take a journey. We have to admit—this journey took us a lot further than we expected. Retracing our steps reveals several factors that made this a reality. As we started arranging it we had serious writer's block. Perhaps some of the worst we've ever had. In fact, one day instead of writing we went around the entire studio with a can of WD-40 and coated every piece of metal to ensure that we were a squeak-free studio. Then on a whim we decided to back away and take an entirely new approach to the song—an African approach. It may seem random in retrospect, but at the time it was an exciting way to restart the arrangement. It was working, but our journey still was on foot until we called in Alex Boye, one of the most talented people we've ever met. Alex has this contagious energy that gave new life to the song and to us. He sings the tune in 4 different languages: Swahili, English, Yoruba (his mother's native language), and Alex's own African "scat" (we'll call it...Scafrican) =) Most of the words you hear are translated from the lyrics in the original Coldplay Tune. We're huge fans of Alex -- We bet you are now too!
Follow Alex on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/alexboye.musi...
When we had finished the arrangement we all agreed that listening to it was like taking a journey to somewhere remote and ruggedly beautiful. How were we to depict this with a cello, African percussion and, most difficult of all, a grand piano? We took a risky, but oh-so-valuable turn when we called in helicopters to air-lift us and our instruments where none had gone before! (Please excuse the Trek reference). Since no one had ever done this before where were we to go for advice? Well, we can tell you that Home Depot didn't have a lot of answers (how disappointing) but we did clean them out of their strongest cable they had. We don't mind telling you that when that helicopter began lifting our brand new-never-before-played grand piano into the air we couldn't help close our eyes and cross our fingers. We consider a blessing of Heaven that it worked. I guess we figured that if it didn't, maybe it could still be a viral video -- "PIANO MOVE FAIL" =)
We'd like to thank from the bottom of our hearts, Duane Fielding who offered the helicopters and SkyHawk http://www.skyhawkhelicopters.com for not dropping the piano...:-) Half-way through the first day of shooting we discovered that, as typical guys, we had forgotten to bring ANY food or water to this remote location. We had two options: one, wrestle a mountain rodent and harvest cacti or two, starve. Duane, our head pilot, took pity on us. He took off (literally) and moments later landed in a Wendy's parking lot, ordered 5 of everything (sadly, he couldn't use the drive through)...took off again and brought us chicken sandwiches and hamburgers via airmail. Thank you Duane! Flying in your helicopter was a dream come true for us despite the lack of doors. =)
Filming location:
http://g.co/maps/mker7 (Southern Utah)
All the instruments you hear are REAL instruments. We wanted to be authentic about this. The following percussion instruments were used:
Djembe (drum)
Agogo bell (like a cow bell)
Udu (the porcelain vase-looking drum)
Guiro (gourd scraper)
Djabarra (shaker)
Rain stick
Pangi seed shaker ("goat toenails" or Unas)
Credits:
Paradise (Mylo Xyloto) by Coldplay written by Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion, And Chris Martin; Copyright Universal Music Mgb Songs And Upala Music, Inc.
Arrangement written and produced by Al van der Beek & Steven Sharp Nelson
Lead vocals: Alex Boye
Cello: Steven Sharp Nelson
Piano: Jon Schmidt
Percussion and backup vocals: Al van der Beek & Steven Sharp Nelson
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Al van der Beek at TPG Studio
Video filmed, edited, & produced by Paul Anderson & Tel Stewart
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This is the classic, famous, infamous Bruff Tour with the amazing host, Skyview Yungin. This video almost got Skyview fired, but apparently behind ...
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This is the classic, famous, infamous Bruff Tour with the amazing host, Skyview Yungin. This video almost got Skyview fired, but apparently behind closed doors Sodexo's managers thought it was amazing. He has since stopped working at Bruff, so it should be safe to share the video now.
This was shot in the Spring of '08. Feel free to leave a comment and definitely share it with your Tulane friends!
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브라이언이 선보이는 이번 새 앨범의 키워드는 다시 태어난다는 의미의 "ReBorn" 이다. 이번에 발표하는 미니 앨범은 그 ReBorn 시리즈의 첫 번째로, 그 첫 번째 파트의 메인 테마는 "음악에 대한 진정성을 기반으로 한 콜라보레이션...
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브라이언이 선보이는 이번 새 앨범의 키워드는 다시 태어난다는 의미의 "ReBorn" 이다. 이번에 발표하는 미니 앨범은 그 ReBorn 시리즈의 첫 번째로, 그 첫 번째 파트의 메인 테마는 "음악에 대한 진정성을 기반으로 한 콜라보레이션"이다.
무엇보다 시선을 사로 잡는 부분은 이번 미니 앨범 첫 트랙이자 타이틀 곡인 "너 따윈 버리고" 에서 보여지는 타이거JK 라는 이제는 전설과도 같은 다른 설명이 필요 없는 아티스트와의 조우다. 타이거JK는 자타가 공인 하는 대한민국을 대표하는 최고의 랩퍼로서, 피처링 형태로 다른 아티스트와의 콜라보레이션은 잘 진행하지 않기로 유명하지만 이 곡의 데모를 듣는 순간 한번에 반해버린 타이거JK가 흔쾌히 제안을 수락하여 브라이언과의 너무나도 특별한 스페셜 조인트가 탄생되었고, 직접 곡의 작사뿐만 아니라 바쁜 일정 중에도 너 따윈 버리고 뮤직비디오까지 직접 본인이 출연하여 컨텐츠의 완성도에 본인의 모든 것을 쏟았다는 후문이다.
"너 따윈 버리고"는 우리에게 이미 익숙한 곡인 작년에 발매되어 공전의 힛트를 기록했던 f(x)의 피노키오를 작곡한 Jeff Hoeppner의 곡으로, 편집된 느낌의 독특한 피아노 선율로 시작되는 인트로부터 매우 심상찮은 느낌을 주는 브릿팝의 냄새가 물씬 풍기는 넘버이다.
떠나간 여인에 대해 이미 지난 일은 어쩔 수 없고 툭툭 털고 일어나자고 마음 속으로 되뇌지만 다시 제발 돌아와주길 바라는 한 남자의 애절한 감정을 담고 있는 이 곡의 가사 역시 타이거JK가 직접 작사를 하였으며 브릿지 이후 고조되는 느낌에서 화산이 폭발하듯 뿜어져 나오는 타이거JK의 랩은 "역시!!!" 라는 감탄사를 절로 자아내게 만들기에 충분하다.
또한 "너 따윈 버리고" 뮤직비디오에서 보여주는 브라이언의 열연과 타이거JK의 랩핑씬 또한 또 다른 볼거리이다.
브라이언은 이번 앨범의 타이틀을 "ReBorn Part 1"으로 정하고 새로운 음악과 스타일로 다시 태어난다는 의미를 그를 사랑하는 팬들과 무엇보다 본인에게 부여하며 2012년 새로운 해의 시작과 동시에 짧지 않은 시간 동안 준비한 새 앨범을 선보이며 각오를 다지고 있다.
얼마 전 화제의 프로그램 불후의 명곡에 출연하여 이제는 다른 무엇보다 음악으로 대중들에게 다가서고 싶다는 본인의 의지와 진정성 있는 각오를 밝힌 바 있던 브라이언의 강한 메세지가 담긴 이번 앨범이 어떤 결과를 불러올지 상반기 가요계의 관심이 그를 향하고 있다.
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