Dear Friends and Fans,
Some of you already know, but I'd just LOVE to announce Wormtooth Nation, which is a movie/web series being created by many of my friends. It's a steampunk tale about an underground city, and it's very dark, very profound and uplifting, and very very cool. I also act in it, and am in charge of scoring the film (making all the music (except for a badass dance feature song by Ian Fry)), and mixing/cleaning all the audio. It's a student film on a donation budget, but with that considered it's downright amazing.
Episode One (of nine) was released on Thursday, and Episode Two comes out today (I believe).
View Episode One here:
Wormtooth Nation - Episode 1 - YouTube (1 of 2)
Wormtooth Nation - Episode 1 - YouTube (1 of 2)
Wormtooth Nation - Episode 1 - Google Video
Wormtooth Nation - Episode 1 - Vimeo, high resolution (worth it)
Read more about the movie & cast, post comments/reviews, and even watch the episodes as they come out, at the movie's official website:
http://www.theskyisfree.com
Enjoy!!
Lots of love to all
-David
Hello all you hot sexy rock stars.
Two things:
A) Happy May!
B) Spreading the word about Wormtooth Nation, which is a film by Geoff Boothby and Cullen Thomas.
It's pretty kickass. It's about an underground city, the population divided by oppression and revolution, a mysterious gas (called "wormtooth" or "wormy") that causes complete memory loss, and people's hopes and dreams of finding "the surface."
Matt Ticciatti, Helena Grace Treadwell, Elisabeth Hughes, and Steve White star.
Lots of supporting roles and extras appearances made by all your friends!
The sets and locations look amazing, the costumes and props are fabulous (e.g. authentic WW2 french issue gas masks), and most of the acting is quite moving.
If that isn't enough, I got to act in it, and even better, I'm writing and producing ALL of the music for the film, assisting with sound editing, and in charge of final mixing and mastering of the audio.
Wormtooth Nation will be released as a feature-length movie (90 minutes), as a culminating event after it is distributed as a nine-episode web mini-series. Yes, you'll get to see the whole thing in cliff-hangy chunks throughout the month of May. The first episode is released May 8th (i believe).For a high quality movie trailer, visit the official Wormtooth Nation site:
Enjoy!!
I'm excited.
Yes. Yes. Spring is finally here. Sometimes I feel like winter has some death grip on my happy glands or something. But today's the first day of Spring, and the weather is actually nice! It'll probably shit on us a few more times in the coming weeks, and then become stupidly hot outside, but let's cross that bullplop when we come to it.
Currently I'm involved in three projects. In non-alphabetical order, the first is a new Davidjmurphy solo album, which I've been mentioning for months/years. Tentative release is Summer '08. The second is a debut album from The Speeding Trees. Me and Jon are working on this, and tentative release date is Spring '08. The third is scoring and soundtracking for Geoff Boothby's new film/web series called Wormtooth Nation. I've been writing jazz, blues, and electronic/bigbeat pieces for it, plus others. I'm also covering all the non-song parts like when something happens and you just hear a smattering of notes to accent a moment or something... like, not a full song... et cetera. Release date for the web series is the first week of May. The series, which is 9 episodes, about ten minutes each, will be fused into a feature-length movie and shown at a premiere in Fairfield, early June '08. I also acted in this film, which was fun. I've been watching the rough cuts from the editors, and I can say that the lead actors did some fabulous work, and there are some powerful moments to look forward to.
Overall stuff is cooking behind the scenes and will be unveiled to the public in all its steamy glory in the next few months.
Yay spring!
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y'all not knowin', I'm here to let you know. On the upcoming davidjmurphy album(s?), you'll be hearing my latest toys from Saluda Cymbals. Jaime and his gang will make beautiful cymbals, custom-tailored to your tastes, per order, at amazing prices. Tell 'em I sent you.
Just thought I'd say that since the release of Ashes & Fire, a few fundamentals have changed, my songwriting style included. I have acquired some tasty treats, most notably a new drum kit (Gretsch Catalina Ash.. not exactly the Rolls Royce of drumkits but it's way better than my last one.. love it), a new room to record said drums in (don't even get me started about the drum recordings on A&F), and today I ordered a real set of studio monitors to mix on. Apart from that, I've been reading up TONS and tons on sound engineering and general production techniques. Thing are gonna start sounding pretty sweet on the second album, which I plan to start recording rather soon. In similar news, I'm also working on the first The Speeding Trees' album with Jon... which we also plan to start recording soon. Weather providing, you should see the two new CDs by early summer or sooner.
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Whatup, kits and kaboodles?
Happy fucking Valentine's Day... Guess what I did for this occasion? Yep. Redesigned davidjmurphy.net. Very streamlined.. stripped down .. all naked and sexy.. unlike myself at the moment. Ha!
Take a look around! Trust me, it won't take long. While you're at it, buy Ashes & Fire! Yes, even if you already have it.
Peace, love, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
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