{"id":25822,"date":"2017-09-15T03:42:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T10:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=25822"},"modified":"2017-09-14T22:43:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T05:43:07","slug":"song-video-showcases-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2017\/09\/15\/song-video-showcases-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Song video showcases artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 31, the video for the song \u201cSame Girl\u201d premi\u00e8red. From the Jessica Stuart Few\u2019s latest CD, <em>The Passage<\/em>, the song features a \u201cgirls\u2019 chorus\u201d that includes some of Jessica Stuart\u2019s teenage guitar students joining her on the melody. The two-minute, 36-second video was filmed in and around Toronto, in its alleyways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe directing duo KAJART and I started shooting the video in late April, and shot almost every weekend until early August \u2013 over 120 hours of shooting over 1,000 locations in Toronto!\u201d said Stuart. The stop-motion music video is her third collaboration with KAJART, \u201cand we love each other and work incredibly well together!\u201d she said, noting that the other two videos are for the songs \u201cTwice\u201d and for \u201cPassage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recent video premi\u00e8red on blogTO and had more than 54,000 views and 244 shares at press time. On Sept. 1, it was released on YouTube, and has more than 1,200 views so far. On the YouTube post, watchers are invited to help tag the artists of the more than 400 urban art pieces featured in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that school has just started, Stuart told the <em>Independent<\/em> that the song is \u201cpretty topical.\u201d Its first lyrics, she said, are \u201cStarted off we were going to school \u2013 half is classes, half life lessons. I don\u2019t care if we\u2019re learning the rules, I\u2019m always the same, always the same girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song itself (music, lyrics) was composed and performed by Stuart, who sings and plays the koto (a 13-stringed Japanese harp). She is joined by Charles James (double bass), Jon Foster (drums), Tony Nesbitt-Larking (backing koto), Michael Davidson (vibraphone) and the chorus of Jocelyn Barth, Michelle Willis, Alex Rozenberg, Astrid Granville-Martin, Keira Brody and Bernice Chan.<\/p>\n<p>To view the video and download\/order the album on which it appears, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/jessicastuartmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jessicastuartmusic.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 31, the video for the song \u201cSame Girl\u201d premi\u00e8red. From the Jessica Stuart Few\u2019s latest CD, The Passage, the song features a \u201cgirls\u2019 chorus\u201d that includes some of Jessica Stuart\u2019s teenage guitar students joining her on the melody. The two-minute, 36-second video was filmed in and around Toronto, in its alleyways. \u201cThe directing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[7387,7388,4994,7386],"class_list":["post-25822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-jessica-stuart","tag-kajart","tag-toronto","tag-urban-art"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}