Sergius
May 10th, 2009
Part of our Musicwood doc is going to be musicians performing on acoustic guitars. We’ll use this to weave the music through the film, and to remind you exactly what it is these guys are fighting for, you know? So we’ve been approaching pr folks for Sting, Neil Young, Glen Hansard, etc. But Maxine came across this great unsigned artist named Sergius Gregory, and it turns out he’s based in Alaska! So when we flew out there to shoot, we flew him down to where we were and arranged to spend a day filming him in various (fantastic) locations:
in the rainforest, in a Native American Clan House, on a dock…
Here’s a cut of his performance in the forest…we won’t use the whole thing in the film, but we wanted to put it together because there was such an amazing feeling when he played this in the forest…I get chills just thinking of it…
hopefully some of that comes through…
UPDATE – Sergius is about to release a record (or something) so he’s asked me to take this down temporarily…seek his record out! Buy it! Support the music!!!!
I’m especially keen to hear KT’s feedback as a board member and all
beautiful, just beautiful – the colours in the filming were perfect
very nice – well done
Another lovely beautifully shot film! I love the birds singing, the vastness of the forest, the close ups of Sergius’s fingers on the guitar and his lovely voice. I can see why you got goosebumps!
glad to see it’s going down well…
Sorry, your back up board member is having some technical difficulties and can’t watch it with sound! I’ll be up to speed shortly. Probably.
But the visual end of it is incredible! Even without hearing the music (which I can only imagine would improve the viewing experience) the trees are mighty, the colors are sharp, and the whole thing comes together really beautifully. Listen, I’ve got some sway with the other board members and I’m going to make sure that this project goes forward! With sound!
Wowsa wowsa. I’m always amazed at how one person with an acoustic guitar can still sound so different then everyone else who does it. Hard to beat the setting as well AND shot so well. Can’t wait to see this doc…lemme try and email a certain someone again.
nice ambience with birds and setting..good voice and great ginger beard, thats one big tree you found also…
The kind of song you can listen to over and over slipping into calm and reflecting on what could be… So beautiful, so hopeful. I want to be in that forest with those big trees and that red headed mountain man with a soul like Serge to be singing me songs!!
so true…the first time he played it for us in the forest we were all 3 of us struck by the magic of it…gorgeousnes…