A Part of You, A Part of Me

In an earlier post I mention a project I'm involved with by Thai artist Tokin Teekanun called A Part of You A Part of Me. The idea was to get different musicians and songwriters to create a piece based on something personal, then get different artists and filmmakers to make videos to accompany the music. There will be two live shows for this project and it's an event not to be missed if you're in Bangkok! Plastic Section is performing on June 9 at SOL Space gallery, listed on the poster and Ben Basement Tape.

For the project, my song "Clumsy" inspired a video made by experimental filmmaker Namfon Udomlertlak, who also starred of the amazing Thai indie film Eternity.

Solo Plastic

I will be playing the The Space next to the Chao Praya River in Bangkok on Saturday night, April 28. The night is presented by Panda Records and will also feature performances by amazing Thai musicians My Post Life (Pok Stylish Nonsense), Bear-Garden and Gene Mahasamut จีน มหาสุมทร, as well as the closing of an exhibition by renowned photographer Jasper Haynes. For more details, visit: here 

Swing!

Earlier this year I did some recording with Pok Pongprayoon (from amazing Thai band Stylish Nonsense) on bass, Benji from German band Beeline on drums, and an amazing European musician based in Bangkok named  JD Cailouet on keyboard. We recorded live (including vocals) direct to 4-track cassette, with Pok engineering the recording, and the results sound great!
One song was one I've been kicking around for a couple of years called "Dream Song," while the others were all new numbers. They include a tribute to New York Latin soul legend Joe Bataan (called "Joe Bataan"), a song called "Swing" about October 5, 1962 (Love Me Do and Dr No released on the same day!) and a track called "Venice of the East," about the  dirt, desertion and disaster brought on by last year's catastrophic flooding in Thailand (get ready for 2012!!).
All in all we recorded about six songs in one day, and I hope to get together with some of the guys again soon to record a couple more for the next Plastic Section album. Watch this space for some exciting new sounds!
Here are some beautiful photos taken by Kik Wongchalard during the sessions..

Live EP

The Plastic Section album has a couple of tracks recorded live at Nospace Gallery in Bangkok with Bank Redtwenty on drums - but there was a whole bunch of other stuff recorded at that gig, including some songs that weren't included on the album in studio versions. I decided to put together a 4-track EP with unused songs from those sessions, available for free here!: Plastic Section Live at Nospace