Behind The Scenes: Transported Android Amaker Music Video

Android Amaker recently shot an out of this world music video for a brand new track called Transported. The video is directed by my good friend Peter Robinson, AKA Ten Hundred, who asked me to be the cinematographer on the project. It was a rollicking fun day of shooting, drinking and bloody pig hearts. In between assisting Peter and drinking fancy Tequila with the band, I was able to snag some behind the scene stills to give you a glimpse of the video. According to The Stranger, "This is a brand new song off of a local concept album. I dare say it's not quite like anything you've ever heard before. At least not on THIS planet. Some of the players involved are country-punk Brent Amaker, musicians Vox Mod and P Smoov, along with dancer/artist/musician Molly Sides, photographer/artist Frank Correa, and menswear designer Chris Jones (Like a Rockstar)." Its a wild ride of a track, listen after the BTS photos.

You can preview/preorder the album here. And the live performance (think more performance art than live music set) will explode with a singular, one-time-only live event at Neumos on November 7th.

GO TO Tracks: 2 (I'm the One), 5 (Flesh Roboutique), & 10 (Transported). If you have the time, listen to the full LP in order. This is a concept album and the story unfolds. Below is the back story and inspiration for the project: Raymond Kurzweil. I had heard the name in the 1980’s. I remember an electric piano that was touch sensitive and it sounded exactly like a grand piano. It was revolutionary. I played keys in a new wave band, so I didn’t have much use for such a thing. Most of my notes were limited to wave pitches and monophonic modulation. A polyphonic electric piano was a waste of my time. But I remember the name. And I didn’t see it again until I picked up a copy of Time magazine with this cover story: 2045 - The Year Man Becomes Immortal. That’s all I needed to become hooked. There was a man on this planet and he believed he could become immortal. He wasn’t a quack. And this wasn’t a tale of magic fountain in a mysterious location. This was a scientist whose credentials were authentic and he was a true believer. And his story was published in Time Magazine. Raymond Kurzweil invented the Kurzweil electric piano in the 1980’s, he invented the technology that became SIRI, and now had proposed the theory of technological singularity. And I believed him to be the messiah of scientific discovery. I read the Time magazine article on a flight from Oklahoma City to Seattle and it was a pivotal point in my life. It would lead me on an adventure that I would not have predicted. It would become an obsession and dominate my life. And my life would transform from what I once knew as life into something different. Something I cannot explain with words. It would lead me on a quest for immortality. It would ultimately change my identity and the universe would know me as Android Amaker. Not human, but immortal. The One.