**WATCH THE VIDEO FOR “SAD ROBOT HARMONIES”**
http://vimeo.com/21165268
It has been a long time in the making, but the moment that you have been waiting for is here. NASH’s video for “Sad Robot Harmonies,” dropped today on Baeble Music in all of its glory. As you may remember, in conjunction with The Musebox, Fontana North and Shoreline, late last year a contest was held for College and University students to create an animated video for the song. And WOW did they do a stellar job on capturing the track.
Directed by Christopher Mills (Modest Mouse, Broken Social Scene, Interpol, Blue Rodeo), with Illustrations by Gaelle Legrand, and Executive Producer Geoff McLean, the trio create a visual masterpiece to the upbeat and catchy track.
An animated NASH will take you on a comic book ride that gets more interesting with every view. This is one video you will have to watch more than once, because you aren’t going to want to miss a thing.
"The song is a large thank you to some really good people in my life which points out the contrasts between good-intentioned people and people with agendas, and my ability to deal with or be able to cope with the latter,” says NASH. “I figured I'd be ironic about it and tell it from the perspective of a robot with artificial intelligence who's so frustrated with humans and the terrible things that they do that he decides he can't take it anymore and resorts to building himself a tree house so that he can be removed from his human counterparts. The song ends with the moral of: 'No matter how shitty things get, there's always good, and love prevails despite the sadness of things around you.'"
Though the suburban Montreal native is only just in his thirties, he's already gone through more experiences, turmoil and hardships than a person twice his age.
NASH embraced music in his teens and it has continued to be the driving force in his life through his ups and downs and stints as a music journalist, record company employee, concert promoter, drug dealer and addict, aquatics instructor, semi-professional athlete, artist manager, studio owner, construction worker, university student, non-profit organization founder, frequent hospital patient, repeated robbery victim, singer, songwriter, composer, musician and producer. Much of his professional music career has been split between Montreal and roach-infested abodes in Los Angeles, with significant periods also spent in New York City, Toronto, Vancouver, and touring across North America.
NASH's musical influences range from the alterno-indie-cynism of Beck to Phoenix, the quirkiness of Cake to Spoon, the rhythms of reggae and the haunting vocal touches of Failure and Depeche Mode. He takes elements from these artists and infuses them with unique arrangements, unusual instrumentation, danceable beats and memorable hooks to create a sound that's truly his own.
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