Live Footage 2015. 
Recorded and mixed by Nolan Thies (Club Casa Blue Room & Room 17 Studios ), Quinn McCarthy (The Creamery).
Mastered by Alex De Turk at Strange Weather Studios.
Produced by Live Footage


The Planetarium

side a (tracks 1-5) beat oriented
side b (tracks 6-10) ambient/cinematic oriented

recorded at the bunker studio 2015 by nolan thies
mixed & mastered at the planetarium and the blue room by nolan thies
 all songs originally improvised to 2" tape
artwork by the talented tori h http://www.tori-h.com/

Bunker

Recorded and mixed by Nolan Thies.
Mastered by Alex De Turk

Released October 14, 2016

Moods of the Desert

"Doyers" is the 4th album by live footage

Recorded & Mixed by Quinn McCarthy at The Creamery Studio
Additional mixing at Virtue and Vice Studios  
Mastered by Roman Vail at Joe Lambert Studios
Produced by Quinn McCarthy & Live Footage
(2014) 
available on itunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/doyers/id862530381

Live Footage - Doyers

Mong De Rida

Sad Love Story

Nomadic Ant

Runnin'

1976 I

Live Footages' score to the Emmy nominated series on Netflix.

Roof Cave Down

Donda's Theme V3

Deep Night

Post Rain; Wet Field

View From a Desert Helicopter

Hells Bells

Eternalism

All Quiet

“Unwritten Soundtrack” is a collaboration between avant electro duo Live Footage and saxophonist Danny Meyer and will be released by the multifarious Ephemeral Arts label on December 6th, 2019.  For the past 13 years cellist Topu Lyo and drummer/keyboardist Mike Thies have produced improvisational cinematic mini-soundtracks constructed from loops, samples, tape manipulations and synthesizer treatments that lie somewhere at the crossroads between Eno, Morricone and Carpenter.

The result of this collaboration with multi-disciplinarian artist Meyer (who has contributed musically to such acts as Julia Holter, Chairlift, ExoTech and MGMT) is an expansion on the urbane electro charged atmosphere that the duo has fulfilled in which the saxophone overlays an organicness that simultaneously pays homage to the jazz of a past age with a future that is only just being discovered.
“Broken” kicks off a world where Dejohentte and Coltrane somehow meet in the back alleys of a distant time with a repetitive riff that evolves from the pure and unaffected to reverbed and delayed horns woven through Lyo’s delicately effected strings.  “Sea Marsh” references the downiness of Richard Thomas’ work with Cocteau Twins and is equally as majestic as anything yielded from that long ago collaboration.  The psychedelic backdrop of “Dramatic Theme” sets the stage for an intoxicated interplay of sax and cello, propped up by a steady beat that seems to orbit from a distance.  “Honshirabe” brings the listener back to earth with their take on a 17th century traditional Japanese Shakuhatchi theme that comforts yet retains the mystery.   The hymn-like “Mantis Love”, delicate improvisation “Pale Blue Dot” and introspective “Slo-Mo Driveby” soothe as strings and horns blend to create an abstract backdrop of sound and colors seemingly wistful and nostalgic.  “Slop Clap” occupies a technological soundscape with uneasy rhythms that have an almost dub-like feel while “Tribesman” and “Unwritten Soundtrack” take the listener far from this planet in a cauldron of sound.

The trio manipulates, loops, re-constructs and de-constructs their instruments in uncommon ways and live in a space somewhere between experimental, film music, jazz and modern classical.  Start with the soundtracks and create your own vision.
“Unwritten Soundtrack” will be released as a full length digital format as well as an abbreviated version in physical vinyl 10” format.  The digital version will be available on all streaming services as of December 6th.  The vinyl 10” version will be available at the Ephemeral Arts website, the Live Footage website and fine record shops as of December 6th.  

 
All material was improvised live to 1” tape. 
Recorded and mixed by Quinn McCarthy at the Creamery Studios Brooklyn,NY. 
Mastered by Nolan Thies at the Blue Room Studios. 
Art by Mike Thies and Tori H.

Broken

Honshirabe

Mantis Love

Sea Marsh

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Almost Beautiful_NT MIX_250405

Another Mourning in a Beautiful Place_NT MIX_250405_03

Contemplation_NT MIX_250405

Echo Canyon_NT MIX_250405

First Contact_NT MIX_250405

Inner Dialogue_NT MIX_250405

North Star_NT MIX_250405

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Set Piece_NT MIX_250405

True To Life_NT MIX_250529

Live Footage 2015. 
Recorded at The Creamery Studio and The Planetarium (LF).
Mixed by Nolan Thies (Club Casa Blue Room) & Quinn McCarthy (The Creamery).
Mastered by Alex De Turk at Strange Weather Studios.

The Performer

Paris (The Song)

Cross Cotton Pollination

Lost Highway

Ocean Jets

Flavin

Our remix from Denitia & Sene's "Powder", from their album "Love & Noir".

Powder [Live Footage Remix]

side a (tracks 1-5) beat oriented
side b (tracks 6-10) ambient/cinematic oriented

recorded at the bunker studio 2015 by nolan thies
mixed & mastered at the planetarium and the blue room by nolan thies
 all songs originally improvised to 2" tape

01. Space Kush

10. Pueble Native

09. The Life of A Complacent Bird

08. Dixeebe

07. Angelic Figure in Faded Light

Bunker 

06. The Alps

05. Times Tale

04. I-25

03. The Westernization of Asia

02. The Look Through Sunglasses

Gold Pot

Fake Timbs feat Mckenzie Frye

Dreamt

Track taken from Live Footage’s New Album 'Doyers', out now.

For the past three years, Live Footage has been playing a weekly 3-hour set at the famed Apotheke on Doyers Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
 
Like the foundation of their music, their shows were mainly improvised. Given the mercurial nature of improvisation, Live Footage decided to record every set they could to document their performances and their progress.
 
Ending up with literally hundreds of live archived sets, and discovered that live improvisations took on their own distinct sound and decided to explore this in a more thorough way.
 
For six days, the band turned The Creamery Studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn into their laboratory, record 20 rolls of 1Ž4 inch tape on an 8-track recorder. By no means purists, but in an age where there is essentially no limit to what can be manipulated in the studio with software, Live Footage embraced the natural limitations of the equipment with open arms and created what they feel is their music in its most natural form – improvised, handcrafted, imperfect and truly from the heart!

Doyers Out Now & Available From:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/doyers/id862530381

More Information here:
http://www.livefootagebrooklyn.com/
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