New
“Bee Liner” video features long-lost 80’s video synthesizer Fairlight CVI,
which Phil discovered at five-years-old performing “Bad” karaoke.
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Phil
Radiotes of Phil and the Osophers as photographed by Kenneth Anderson.
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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!
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Five-year-old Phil
Radiotes of Phil and the Osophers performs “Bad” at the local
mall, providing visual inspiration years later for the “Bee Liner” music video!
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Phil and the Osophers – Live
NYC! See Phil
and the Osophers live on Thurs., March 21st at Berlin!
More
info here.
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More about
the “Bee Liner” video by Phil and the Osophers
“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,”
says Phil Radiotes of Brooklyn’s Phil and the Osophers about the music
video for his current single, just-premiered via Relix
Magazine.
He continues, “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.
I take the bus a lot and though I wrote the song in a literal fashion, I wanted
it to have a working class nature to it, that we are taking this bus to get
somewhere better in life. This particular bus is taking us directly there, at
warp speed, and just a few of us passengers know how to get on it!”
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. So, the footage for ‘Bee
Liner’ went from 2019 to the 1980s and back. I’d been grappling with the
idea of making the ‘Bad’ video public along with the
premiere of the ‘Bee Liner’ video.
It’s pretty amazing, but also pretty embarrassing.”
Listen to the latest
single “Bee Liner” by Phil and the Osophers, out now. The “Bee Liner” music video can be seen here. Look
out for the latest Phil and the Osophers
full-length From The Rise of Fall this summer.
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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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
