At last, Halifax’s acclaimed pop-maestro Rich Aucoin has unveiled his epic three-year long film project.
Aucoin has gushed his love-affair with film before with his music video for “It,” but this modest masterpiece is on a whole other level. Aucoin and his team editing together 40 films, and, as he explains on his website, “this meant cutting together the 40 films and placing them into a Pro Tools session where the music was written to sync up lyrically, thematically and percussively with this newly spliced film.”
This is no small feat. The soundtrack to the film is Aucoin’s 22-track EP/LP Public Publication/Over The Top!, featuring contributions from 500 Canadian musicians; the hour-long film itself is like a hyper-intentional Pink Floyd/Wizard of Oz mash-up. See for yourself below:
Acoin has also dropped some new Canadian tour dates before wrapping things up at Canadian Music Week with Dan Mangan, the Pack A.D., The Sheepdogs, Young Empires and Passion Pit:
March 2 – Vancouver, BC (The Media Club)
March 3 – Victoria, BC (Lucky Bar)
March 7 – Edmonton, AB (Starlite)
March 8 – Calgary, AB (Club Hifi)
March 10 – Chicago, IL (Schubas Tavern)
March 24 – Toronto, ON (The Indies)
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