NEWS: Kalle Mattson's Video for "Thick as Thieves" Goes Viral With 300,000 Views in Two Weeks
Ottawa folk rock quintet Kalle Mattson had their video for "Thick as Thieves" added to the front page at www.vimeo.com two weeks ago, and has since been viewed 300,000 times.
Kalle Mattson - Thick As Thieves (Official Video) from Kevin Parry on Vimeo.
On November 15th, the video was added to one of the world's largest cartoon sites at www.cartoonbrew.com which lead to Vimeo picking up the video as a "Video We Like" on their front page. Since then, the video has been added to Reddit, Buzzfeed, Digg, Break.com, Smosh.com, Huffington Post, Daily What and has been posted by countless blogs, including most recently one for the CBS News. Interest in South America and Spain picked up after the popular Spanish blog ALT1040.com wrote about the video, which lead to it being added to the video section for Yahoo Espanol, Canada, and USA!
The video, which cost the band $250 in materials to make, was created by band high school friend Kevin Parry. In it, the history of the world is depicted in 3 minutes and 30 seconds using stop motion animation. All of the characters in the video are made of cut pieces of paper, and the background is made of fabric that the band got from Salvation Army. The concept for the video was settled upon in September of 2010, and Kevin and his team worked on it for the next six months, finally debuting the video in May of 2011.
The band, in light of all of this, are presently allowing free downloads of their album "Anchors" .
Anchors was mixed by Howie Beck (Feist, Jason Collett, Hayden, Josh Rouse, etc) and mastered in Los Angeles at the legendary Bernie Grudman Studios (Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, U2. The Band, Van Morrison, etc).
To download the album for your listening pleasure, please go to www.parliamentoftrees.com/kallemattsonpromo
Bands website: www.kallemattson.com
Listen: www.kallemattson.bandcamp.com
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO_819DXjuc
Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/kallemattson
Twitter : www.twitter.com/kallemattson
On November 15th, the video was added to one of the world's largest cartoon sites at www.cartoonbrew.com which lead to Vimeo picking up the video as a "Video We Like" on their front page. Since then, the video has been added to Reddit, Buzzfeed, Digg, Break.com, Smosh.com, Huffington Post, Daily What and has been posted by countless blogs, including most recently one for the CBS News. Interest in South America and Spain picked up after the popular Spanish blog ALT1040.com wrote about the video, which lead to it being added to the video section for Yahoo Espanol, Canada, and USA!
The video, which cost the band $250 in materials to make, was created by band high school friend Kevin Parry. In it, the history of the world is depicted in 3 minutes and 30 seconds using stop motion animation. All of the characters in the video are made of cut pieces of paper, and the background is made of fabric that the band got from Salvation Army. The concept for the video was settled upon in September of 2010, and Kevin and his team worked on it for the next six months, finally debuting the video in May of 2011.
The band, in light of all of this, are presently allowing free downloads of their album "Anchors" .
Anchors was mixed by Howie Beck (Feist, Jason Collett, Hayden, Josh Rouse, etc) and mastered in Los Angeles at the legendary Bernie Grudman Studios (Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, U2. The Band, Van Morrison, etc).
To download the album for your listening pleasure, please go to www.parliamentoftrees.com/kallemattsonpromo
Bands website: www.kallemattson.com
Listen: www.kallemattson.bandcamp.com
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO_819DXjuc
Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/kallemattson
Twitter : www.twitter.com/kallemattson
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