Pink Martini - Over The Valley

3 for Pink Martini are 3 music videos in a short film style format created for the Pink Martini Music Video Contest that honor my personal connection to their music as it relates to family and community and the themes of love and loss.

Animation artist Rocky Kev from the KoAloha Ukulele Story teamed up with me once more to create something that is out of the box and very personal exploring our connections to Où Est Ma Tête?, Ohayoo Ohio (Hello Ohio), and Over the Valley from their new album Splendor in the Grass.

We did something unique with this process since we were able to present more than one music video. We each created a music video in our own disciplines on our own and then collaborated on one final music video together (Over the Valley). I hope the films can explore the multiple layers of Pink Martini in a manner that you have not seen before and hopefully captures the spirit of what Pink Martini's musical message has always represented to me.

In a very strange and special way, this music video contest has given me a chance to do something I've always wanted to do for a very long time and that is to create a film about a group that continues to inspire and bring people together across generations and across all boundaries.

To Thomas M Lauderdale, China Forbes, and the talented core artists of Pink Martini I raise a martini glass to you and say, "Salud!"

I hope these films are a small personal thank you for the music you've given me.

With every good wish,

Gary San Angel
Director

Please visit my blog at www.componentgeek.com for more information regarding the Music Video pieces.

Detailed Credits:

In Loving Memory of Marcelina Doma

Directed by Gary San Angel
Artwork by Rocky Kev
Produced by David Lin

Pink Martini
Over the Valley
Music & Lyrics by China Forbes
and Thomas M. Lauderdale

Vocals - China Forbes
Violin - Nicholas Crosa
Mandolin - Dave Gerow
Guitar - Dan Faehnle
Upright Bass - Phil Baker
Piano - Thomas M. Lauderdale
Drums - Martin Zarzar

Birds courtesy of Cornell University Press:
Bird Songs in Your Garden
with Arthur Allen & Peter Kellog, 1961

© 2010 Heinz Records
© Rocky Kev & Gary San Angel

pinkmartini.com
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- Pink Martini Music Video Contest Submission -
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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Pink
• Martini
• Over
• The
• Valley
• Gary San Angel
• Rocky Kev
• China Forbes
• Thomas Lauderdale
• Nicholas Crosa
• Dave Gerow
• Dan Faehnle
• Phil Baker
• Martin Zarzar
• Bird Songs in Your Garden
• Heinz Records
• David Lin
• componentgeek

[7855waldo]

You wouldn't mind if I played this one more time, would you?

[componentgeek]

@7855waldo Feel free!! Play it as many times as you wish! :)

I am thrilled that folks are still enthralled with this little gem of a video. Pink Martini is such an inspiration and it is such a labor or love to make this piece.

[componentgeek]

Thanks very much for taking the time out to view this special piece. I'm glad that even a year later from when it was released people are still finding this little gem. I hope Pink Martini do go to Australia soon! Cheers!

[componentgeek]

Thank you very much for your comment.

Your visual interpretation of the song "flying some one in another pat of life" is exactly what we were hoping to achieve. Thanks for watching! :)

[dwsingrs]

I first heard this song the summer of 2009 at an outdoor concert at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Every once in a while, such a song sneaks up on me and absolutely, wonderfully slays me. I heard this and sat immobile, holding my dear wife's hand. Some people around me yakking . . . I think, "How can they possibly be talking right now? Why aren't they sitting, holding their breath, listening?" Such is the way of the Philistines.

[componentgeek]

@dwsingrs thanks for sharing your personal response to the song. Yes, it is definitely a Pink Martini gem and one that always brings a tear to my eye. Hearing Over the Valley for the first time I was very moved. I hope this humble animation shared a little of bit of how it touched my life. I hope it can always remind us to remember our loved ones who are close and dear to us as well as those who have gone away.

[MrUpload]

very touching :)

[ohcraponacracker]

just fabulous

[7855waldo]

@componentgeek - It is hard work that is very, VERY much appreciated.

Given the lowest-common-denominator tastes that result in the worst music and films being rewarded with huge sums of money, it is a miracle that people like you persevere despite inevitable discouragement.

Thanks again, and Merry Christmas.

[biboingka]

!!!(",)!!!

[DavidJacobHarris]

This is great, my little sister loves this.

[7855waldo]

It's almost gotten to the point where I suspect China simply isn't human, with her amazing skill and more importantly, consistency of quality and heart. I have yet to hear anything she's sung that is anything less than excellent. Naw, I must be hallucinating. It's just not possible.

[MrMusicremedy]

funny vid. i enjoii it :))

[3investigators]

Beauitul. Thank you for sharing.