Images, Sounds & other oddments of multimedia

Mariner's stimuli to indulge the senses.

In this area of our page you'll find everything from music videos, songwriting commentary, behind the scenes footage & photos of the crew doing what we do best.

A tribute to my London based Hindustani teacher.

Many years ago one of my bosses at my daytime gig took vacation in his home country (southern India).  Knowing I was a fanatic about music he broght me back a CD that had such celebrated artists as Anouska Shankar, Susheela Raman, and Sheila Chandra.  I knew of Anoushka through her father Ravi, and her sister Norah, Jones.  But I'd never heard of the other two.  Man, was I ever in for a treat!  Susheela has a voice very much like Sade & every bit as sultry.  And Sheila stole my heart with her "Ever so lonely".  I knew contacting Susheela was out of the question because her & her husband tour incessantly.  But Sheila is retired as a practicing musician & is instead a music career coach & book author.  I contacted her for resources on how to learn & play Hindustani classical music.  I had little expectation that she'd email me back, but much to my shock surprise, we kept in contact for over a year.  She finally stopped answering because even as a coach & author, there's only so much time in the day.  And us Americans have a tendency to be long winded, often to a fault.  It's all good & I appreciate the time she was able to devote.  I learned about Shruti's and Ragas, and how nearly all Hindustani songs revolve around drone notes & the percussion is nothing like that of western music.  I still to this day cannot write a Raga that does the genre justice.  But what I did do is write an instrumental that pays tribute to the wisdom she shared with me.  It's a mixture of Western folk & Hindustani Ragas called "Shaanti Ka Hara Bartan" (the Green Vessel of Tranquility).  The true meaning of the song will forever & always be between the two of us, but I'll share the song with you.  I'm especially proud of this song (even with it's percussion mistakes) because its the culmination of all my curiosities into their genre.  It was meant as an homage & in no way a mockery or disrespect.  Without further adieu...

Shaanti Ka Hara Bartan.

ShaantiKaHaraBartan.mp3

Clayshire Castle & the courtly folk therein.

 Two years ago Capt Farias and I attended the Clayshire Castle renaissance festival with the expectation that some of our work buds would get into the spirit and join us (think Jim Carey's work buds in "Yes-man"), but they didn't.  So we said WTF and went anyway.  It was scorchingly hot, but we gutted it out to watch the better part of the shows.  It was part Debaucherous show content research, and part festive & I'd recommend it to anyone who loves old world culture.  Not to mention, I've never seen so many ospiciously displayed bosoms in my life.  Corsets & all...  I'll be attending next year.

Combat drills on the Castle grounds.

Captain Farias brushing up her archery skills.

We'll have more on here very shortly.  I'm just not one for immortalizing the moment in film very often, but I'm working on that part.

The show as it was when named "Necrovision".

I will say up front that what you see posted below is quite dated & what I produced under our old show's title.  Necrovision's works will be published early next year posthumously as a tribute to all those that participated.  But we've drawn that line in the sand & are looking at tomorrow.

The Ubiquitous YouTube.

The first video I popped onto YouTube was just an "off the cuff" demonstration of an instrumental I was publishing on Necrovision's soon to be posthumously released CD "Effigy".  It was by no means professionally done as the lighting was completely wrong, I wasn't in costume for the show, and the audio came straight from the cheap Piezo microphone typical in Canon Powershot "point & shoot" cameras.  I did it more as a video journal to myself so I don't forget how to freaking play it than a production release to the general public.  But the French (Quebec & France) seem to like it so I'm leaving it there.  Due to it really not aligning with the character of the rest of our material, I've decided to simply make the song a "single" and not publish with the "Effigy" release.  So here it is...  Les Vents du Cheval.  Or in plain English "The Horse Winds".

The Horse Winds ~ Necrovision

Creation Date: June 30th, 2009

Videographer: yours truly, le Marquis de Ceas'd.

Location: #@'er Entertainment.

Then came the only music video the band "Necrovision" ever made as a group.  Again, we captured all the video segments with a cheap Canon PowerShot ELPH & pieced it all together with Microsoft's own "Movie Maker".  I might add, this was a lot of freaking fun to make, and we received a lot of art direction from a good friend of ours in the professional photography business.  This has always been the band's favorite song in our repertoire.  The video, however campy & clearly amateur, doesn't disapoint.  We give you... "Chase the Dragon"

Chase the Dragon ~ Necrovision

I'm going to continue producing music videos for our favorite "Necrovision" carry overs, including such classics as "Curse of the krackAss", "My Many Heads", and "Effigy".  And that's where we'll draw the line in the sand & say that this was yesterday.  Content from "Debaucherous" will have a familiar but different, more enticing flavor.

Legacy pictures of the band back during the Necrovision days. (Circa 2003 - 2011)