Iggy has his Kiwi band - 'The Passenger' recording session streamed live today from 11am (EST)
The
auditions have closed and Iggy Pop has his brand new band. More than
200 New Zealand musicians auditioned for the chance to lay down Iggy's
renowned solo track 'The Passenger' online and under the direction of
the Godfather of Punk.The recording session is being streamed live at www.facebook.com/Orcon from around 11am (Australian EST) today and the finished track is being turned in to a television spot, directed by Darryl Ward @ Curious Film. It will be available for viewing from November 17.
It's all part of a promotion created by Special, Auckland for
telecommunications company Orcon for its next generation broadband.
Now the band has been chosen it assembles today (Friday October 30) to hook up with Iggy in Miami live via Orcon Broadband. They're spending the day under the maestro's expert guidance laying down a brand new version of 'The Passenger'.
Iggy's new band comprises four musicians from Wellington, two from Auckland and one each from Warkworth in Rodney District and Paraparaumu.
The group comprises:
Tia Beaufort (Pukerua Bay, Wellington) & Stephanie Engelbrecht (Evans Bay, Wellington), drums
Charley Davenport (Paraparaumu), cello
Ben Jurisich (Warkworth) & Sam Logan (Karori, Wellington), guitars
Takumi Motokawa (Brooklyn, Wellington), xylophone
Daniel Tate (Onehunga, Auckland), bass
Miho Wada (Remuera, Auckland), flute
Orcon CEO Scott Bartlett says he's amazed at the quality and number of musicians who jumped at the chance to audition for the band: "Iggy obviously has huge pulling power in the global music community. We were expecting around 50 New Zealand musos to audition but in the end we had more than 200. It was a pretty tough job screening them down to eight but with Iggy's help I think we have unearthed some awesome talent."
Mr Bartlett says it looks like it is going to be a pretty incredible re-make of 'The Passenger' and not just a re-hash of the original: "We are really excited about what is going to come out of this."
Today the New Zealand band members connect to Iggy's Miami studio via the Internet with everyone in the band laying down their tracks and Iggy singing the vocals.
The studio is going to capture all the audio and visual feeds and create a unique musical and video rendition of 'The Passenger'. The music and footage is then going to be used to create commercials and a full music video.
"The internet is enabling Kiwis to do incredible things each day and this helps us prove that," Mr Bartlett says.
• The Iggy Pop 'Together Incredible' auditions were viewed online more than 65,000 times on Facebook and the site attracted close to 4,000 fans.
See also: Play live with Iggy Pop and Iggy ready to record 'The Passenger'
Now the band has been chosen it assembles today (Friday October 30) to hook up with Iggy in Miami live via Orcon Broadband. They're spending the day under the maestro's expert guidance laying down a brand new version of 'The Passenger'.
Iggy's new band comprises four musicians from Wellington, two from Auckland and one each from Warkworth in Rodney District and Paraparaumu.
The group comprises:
Tia Beaufort (Pukerua Bay, Wellington) & Stephanie Engelbrecht (Evans Bay, Wellington), drums
Charley Davenport (Paraparaumu), cello
Ben Jurisich (Warkworth) & Sam Logan (Karori, Wellington), guitars
Takumi Motokawa (Brooklyn, Wellington), xylophone
Daniel Tate (Onehunga, Auckland), bass
Miho Wada (Remuera, Auckland), flute
Orcon CEO Scott Bartlett says he's amazed at the quality and number of musicians who jumped at the chance to audition for the band: "Iggy obviously has huge pulling power in the global music community. We were expecting around 50 New Zealand musos to audition but in the end we had more than 200. It was a pretty tough job screening them down to eight but with Iggy's help I think we have unearthed some awesome talent."
Mr Bartlett says it looks like it is going to be a pretty incredible re-make of 'The Passenger' and not just a re-hash of the original: "We are really excited about what is going to come out of this."
Today the New Zealand band members connect to Iggy's Miami studio via the Internet with everyone in the band laying down their tracks and Iggy singing the vocals.
The studio is going to capture all the audio and visual feeds and create a unique musical and video rendition of 'The Passenger'. The music and footage is then going to be used to create commercials and a full music video.
"The internet is enabling Kiwis to do incredible things each day and this helps us prove that," Mr Bartlett says.
• The Iggy Pop 'Together Incredible' auditions were viewed online more than 65,000 times on Facebook and the site attracted close to 4,000 fans.
See also: Play live with Iggy Pop and Iggy ready to record 'The Passenger'
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That is a big ask on what is basically shitty technology. I would be interested to find out if the studio will really be relying on ADSL2+ like the majority of Orcon customers or whether they will play it safe with ISDN. Given the whole thing is being recorded live - presumably for the Cannes overview - we will soon find out.
Thanks for sharing the link - but sadly it seems to be down? Does anybody have a mirror or another source?