The John Brothers Piano Company ~ Market Street, San Francisco

http://www.myspace.com/johnbrotherspianocompany

The John Brothers Piano Company is an art collective formed by John Steven Morgan, John Thatcher Boomer, and Max Moriyama in the East Bay Area. The primary aesthetic of the collective attempts to render several different artforms, mainly original music, outside of established venues and directly to the public via alternative settings such as mass transit boarding and outdoor settings. Weekly, the John Brothers bring a small spinet piano to San Francisco, Berkeley and Rockridge BART stations and play continuously for up to seven hours. All music, though containing several differnet styles ranging from Jazz to blues to stride and classical, is composed by John Morgan and Thatcher Boomer. Max Moriyama provides sole artistic direction- putting a "face" to the John Brothers Piano Company by combining century old illustration with modern techniques to create a nostalgic sensibility.

A note about this video: I have no affiliation with JBPC; the night I shot this was my first exposure to their music. Inspired by their ferocious chops and distinctive style, I used After Effects to give the clip an aged film look and added a silent movie title card (designed by Farrin N. Abbott). I also bought a copy of their newly-released compact disc, which is truly a thing of beauty: the packaging is entirely hand-made and hand-assembled, its rich, tactile elegance unquestionably justifying its existence as a physical object.

January 14th, 2011
Market Street at Taylor, San Francisco, California
Camera: iPhone4
Contact: johnbrothers.pianocompany@gmail.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• piano
• San Francisco
• SF
• band
• music
• performance
• buskers
• Market Street
• JBPC
• John Brothers Piano Company

[curtispsf]

Phantom of The Opera!

[Xeraans]

Absolutely amazing.

[jewelsd4]

Love!

[god0]

He sure does play the shit out of that piano!!

Thanks for the video, Slim.