New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Today, UTNE Reader premieres Auditorium's unsettling and cinematic video for "Fire Fire Ocean Liner." Directed by Ben Barnes, the video was recently featured as the grand finale of the Hammer Museum's Flux Screening Series.
UTNE Reader said the song "is equally impressive as the visual effects," and praised Auditorium's "penchant for powerful vocals." The video is featured on the "buh" YouTube channel of JASH, an award-winning studio, digital network and comedy community. Led by Emmy-nominated producer
Daniel Kellison (Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Show with
David Letterman), Emmy-nominated producer
Douglas DeLuca (Jimmy Kimmel Live) and vet digital video producer Mickey Meyer, JASH was founded in partnership with comedians
Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, and Reggie Watts.
Auditorium is Spencer Berger. Berger began performing at the age of nine as a member of The Metropolitan Opera's Children's Chorus, singing onstage with such golden-throated legends as
Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. His self-released 2011 debut album (Be Brave) and 2012 EP (Nights Worth Living) dropped jaws thanks to Berger's goosebump-inducing voice and his gift for crafting lush, genre-defying arrangements that framed his instant-earworm melodies. Now, Berger is returning with his second LP, The First
Music on January 27th — grand in scope (15 songs) yet tightly constructed (33 minutes), it pulls off a magic trick by unearthing beauty and hope in some of life's darkest, most harrowing corners.
Berger describes The First
Music as "a hunt for answers to unanswerable questions." While constructing it, Berger drew on a mix of personal tragedy (the death of a close friend), family history (many of his relatives were either imprisoned or killed during the Holocaust), vivid childhood memories, and current worldwide events. At the album's core lurks a theme that Berger admits terrified him: "I wanted to confront the reality of my eventual death."
Recording and mixing for over 200 consecutive nights in his Los Angeles apartment — and performing all instruments and vocals himself — Berger concedes that the process was all-consuming. While the instrumentation itself is minimalistic (limited mostly to acoustic & electric guitars, bass, and piano, with occasional percussion), Berger's arrangements are intricately layered; the vocals alone were a gargantuan undertaking, requiring hundreds of hours to capture the sumptuous harmonies that populate the songs.
Auditorium's album The First
Music will be released January 27th.
Tracklisting:
1. Mt. Moriah
2. My Grandfather Could Make the World Dance
3. It's Only God, I Swear
4.
Perfume Drinker
5. Ten Ton Park
6. Fire Fire Ocean Liner
7. I Came Prepared
8. My Uncle's Tree
9. Never Wrote a Diver a Poem
10. The Night Before I Turned Thirteen
11. I'm Home
12. Nor'easter
13. Did Your
Heart Shake Like This Song?
14. The Nearsighted War Cry
15. The Singer
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