About

It’s just a moment.
Sim­ple. Nat­ural. Basic. Clean.
Recorded how it is. No tricks.

That’s the aim, the beauty… the plan at least. I wear my influ­ences on my sleeve. I’ve always been a lover of music and it’s taken me to many places in the mind. I have seen var­i­ous music videos and doc­u­men­taries and been moved by them but thoughts to try this site were spawned by the work of La Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows. Started by Chryde and Vin­cent Moon, I have loved these videos when I first came across their #41 shoot of Arcade Fire play­ing in an elevator.

There are var­i­ous other sites that have popped up shar­ing a sim­i­lar goal of cap­tur­ing the spon­ta­neous beauty that a true artist can con­dure up, and I have linked to them below. I strongly rec­c­om­mend you to check out their record­ings. They cap­ture music in it’s nat­ural form; the way it should be. If you take a moment to slow down in the fast paced web world, press play on the video, remove your hands from the key­board and mouse, sit back and enjoy them for what they worth you’ll end up with a small glimpse of when things all make sense. Then sure enough the video ends and soon after real­ity kicks back in and you’ll be back to click­ing away.

Shoot The Player, in Syd­ney, have also cap­tured some won­der­ful shot of bands in their acoustic glory. And I direct you to their work also.

I was a lit­tle con­fllicted to start this project, so not to tread on the already laid turf, but my aim in this project is not to com­pete with these other sites, but to con­tinue the new genre in film and music that the inter­net has allowed to flour­ish. Although, over time, I do feel this site will uncon­ciously evolve to some­thing dif­fer­ent than it’s pre­de­ces­sors. For now it shall fol­low what feels right and see the road it takes.

Enjoy the videos, enjoy your music and enjoy the ride ahead.

I encour­age you to visit these other sites below.

Les Con­certs A Emporter (The Take Away Shows)

Shoot the Player — Sydney

Black Cab Ses­sions - Lon­don

One Shot Seat­tle — Seattle

One Take New York — New York

There are more out there, and I will add them to the list when I have a proper moment to track them down.