Phil Radiotes, “one of pop’s great sonic adventurers”
(Stereo Embers), plays hometown release show this Tuesday.
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Phil
Radiotes of Phil and the Osophers as photographed by Kenneth Anderson.
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Phil and the Osophers | Live
Brooklyn! See
Phil and the Osophers live on Tues., July 16th at Sunnyvale!
RSVP HERE.
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Listen to “Endeavour”
by Phil and the Osophers here,
watch the music video here,
or follow the links below!
[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/PhilAndTheOsophers-Endeavour
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The “Bee Liner”
video by Phil and the Osophers
features the long-lost 80’s video synthesizer, the Fairlight CVI, which Phil
Radiotes first discovered at five-years-old performing a karaoke cover of “Bad” at the local mall. Watch the “Bee Liner” video and five-year-old Phil’s “Bad” cover at Relix
Magazine or the links below!
[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/PhilAndTheOsophers-BeeLiner
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Phil and the Osophers | In The
Press
“Green New
Deal” by Phil and the Osophers was recently featured
by Democracy Now! Listen to the
song here.
“Crafting
catchy, literate songs that blend musical genres from folk rock to world beat.”
— Relix
“The music he creates doesn’t fall within
cookie-cutter patterns and avoids current trends, instead creating music with
psychedelic elements into structures that are pop-oriented. But he’s not just
another pop songwriter.” — Ghettoblaster
“Grafting breezy psychedelia, dub, surf rock, indie
pop and folk all together, Radiotes
is one of pop’s great sonic adventurers.” — Stereo Embers
“Greek tragedy
in pop form.” — Aupium
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Phil and the
Osophers | About “Endeavour” and “Bee
Liner”
“‘Endeavour’
is a different type of song,” Phil Radiotes
of Phil and the Osophers says. “It’s
my attempt to write in Greek mythological terms. The central character is a
banished mythological figure, who still sees his love up in the sky in
constellation form, as he once was. Like in a Greek tragedy, he is hopeless,
without chance to ascend back to what he sees as his rightful place in the
sky. He can only watch as Orion moves
into his place and opine about how he has fallen from the gods’ favor.”
About the music video for the
song, Radiotes explains, “The space
shuttles were iconic emblems of the 80s and 90s, and to me, they represented a
freshness of technology and hopeful presence to explore beyond. The shuttles
seemed like science fiction toys in real life and made outer space feel
achievable to all of us. There is a
simple how-to video within the ‘Endeavour’
video on how to make a paper mache plane. I felt it was an apt medium to create
an Endeavour replica, since the song is about constellations that predate
history. The whole thing began to turn into something like a science project.
It may look simple enough, but I’d never done anything like that before.”
“The vibe I want to get across with the ‘Bee Liner’ video is a cross between
the ‘Once In A Lifetime’ and
‘New Light’ videos,” Radiotes says. “My dad spent some years
as a bus driver, so I knew the look and attitude I wanted the bus driver to
have, kinda cool and sweet. The bus in the song arrives offering some kind of
deliverance.” The “Bee Liner” video
was made using the long lost video synthesizer from the 1980s, the Fairlight CVI.
“I was first unknowingly introduced to the Fairlight at five-years-old when I performed a karaoke version
of Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’ at a music service shop at
the Fashion Island Mall in San Mateo, CA,” Radiotes
explains. “I showed the ‘Bad’ video
to (‘Bee Liner’ director) Ken (Anderson), he posted a sample of
it to a few video forums, and found out it was a Fairlight CVI. We then tracked down what, to my knowledge, is the
only working Fairlight CVI still
available to use, and we convinced the guy who owns it to run our footage through
it.”
Phil
Radiotes is available for interviews.
Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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Phil and the Osophers | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact
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