… Stop what you’re doing and set aside the next 2:48 minutes to watch his homemade video for this insanely good single from his new album Ghosts. …

The Ghosts EP is available for free/donation download. For now at least.

For the music video she chose River Song, which we decided to do a new recording of for the project. We gathered all the materials we needed at thrift stores – costumes, green bedsheet for the greenscreen – and shot it on my digital camera’s video mode. Those files sat on my hard-drive untouched for half a year until I had enough free time to try to learn how to paint and composite it all together. Here’s how it came out:

The video was to give me a chance to improve on techniques I’d started developing during the last Monsters From Mars music video. I wanted further to explore the possibilities of putting real people in fantastical settings – in this case, a children’s book world. If nothing else, it was a great learning experience. I’m looking forward to working on the next one and exploring some new, more ambitious territory.

I won’t go into too much detail about the EP, as I put a lot of time and work into this ultimately stillborn endeavor. You can stream as far as we got with it – an 11-song collection of alternate takes, outtakes, or otherwise unreleased material recorded 2006-2009 – in low quality here for a brief period:

Tracklist:

1. Owl Song (originally a William:Kaiser song?)
2. Release Me (recorded for Spaceman)
3. Staring at the Sea (original demo)
4. River Song (alternate version)
5. Unloved Unhappy
6. Have They Found
7. What You Said When I Was Dreaming
8. Sat There Unknowing
9. Show Me Love
10. Apple Sauce
11. Phantom Hearts

Tracks 1-4,6,10,11 produced by myself; rest by Rachel. Erin Copp plays cello on 2,4. I play any synthesizers, xylophones, melodicas, and harpsichords found on tracks 1,2,4,6.