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I’m obsessed with podcasts and subscribe to far too many to honestly even keep up with. Our friends over at Subdrive run an excellent podcast. The majority of the content falls into the hard electro territory, so I was surprised when a recent video episode featured an artist of a different color who was right up my alley.
Oren Lavie is an Israeli ex-pat and former playwright who crafts dreamy singer-songwriter fare. Lavie’s theatre background is clearly evident in his work. His lyrics burst with emotive writing and his compositions possess a classical sensibility. His singing is always accompanied by piano or guitar and often accented with string arrangements.
Lavie’s video for his 2007 track Her Morning Elegance is sure to catch anyone’s attention. Directed by Lavie himself with the assistance of an Israeli-based team composed of husband and wife directing duo Yuval and Merav Nathan, model/actress Shir Shomron, and photographer Eyal Landesman, Her Morning Elegance was shot as a series of over 3,000 stills using a single ceiling-mounted camera. Prior to shooting, an animated storyboard using 3D dummies for the characters was created over a month’s time. Lavie and Shomron then recreated the sequence frame by frame. The resulting product is a perfect, Michel Gondry-esque representation of lucid sleep.
You can pick up Oren Lavie’s 2007 album The Opposite Side of the Sea as well as subscribe to the Subdrive podcast on iTunes.
Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance (256 kbps)
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great video, one of my favorites of 2009 so far.
Awesome song and video. I just hope it doesn’t get butchered by being put on the soundtrack to "The Hills" or something along those lines.