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Head First

from HEAD FIRST by Rozalind MacPhail

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    HEAD FIRST is about pushing your limits, taking risks and moving into unknown territory without letting fear get in your way. HEAD FIRST explores Rozalind’s passion for combining music with silent film, and focuses on the people and places she has connected with during her six years touring across Canada in a wood-panelled station wagon. She features her favourite instrument, the flute.

    Filmmakers from across Canada were asked to create silent films inspired from Rozalind’s compositions. Film locations range from the Belcher Islands in Nunavut to the Dempster Highway in Yukon Territory to Fogo Island in Newfoundland and Labrador and finally Toronto Island where Rozalind grew up. Film mediums range from digital HD to hand-processed black and white (16mm Bolex) to 35mm Ektachrome colour reversal film.

    Over 24 filmmakers and musicians contributed to this project:

    Scott Amos, Jean-Claude Batista, Mark Borowski, Joel Heath, Darryl Hopkins, Nicholas Kovats, Roger Maunder, Flamingo Pudding, Gina Rae Anderson, Dan Sokolowski and Ed Tanasychuk, Curtis Andrews, Rick Bailey, Veronica Charnley (Plumes), Dennis Gamberg, Geof Holbrook (Plumes), Matthew Hornell, Rozalind MacPhail, MouthPEACE, Mark Neary (Novaks), Stephen Pitkin (Elliott Brood), Scott Stevenson, Brad Weber (Caribou/Pick a Piper) and Mike Yates (Amos the Transparent).

    HEAD FIRST was nominated for an ECMA and MusicNL award. It has been showcased at film festivals across Canada and the U.S and was featured at TEDx St. John's.

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Music by Rozalind MacPhail
Film by Flamingo Pudding (The Netherlands)

"Head First" from The Head First DVD project is about taking risks and jumping into unknown territory without letting fear get in the way. I was fortunate to try the ice sport, skeleton at Canada Olympic Park many years ago and the experience was like no other. I was both the most terrified and most excited I have ever been.

Imagine going down the ice track, head first at 90kms an hour!!! It was then that I decided I would write a song about what it felt like to take a run down that particular track and the happy high you get afterwards.

I researched the exact timing of every turn on that track and made a map of tempo changes and time signatures. When Curtis Andrews was in St. John's, he improvised to my musical map and then a song was born. It took a few years before I was able to develop the song because it's so out there.

Netherlands filmmaker, Flamingo Pudding did a wicked film for this that gives the perfect fun vibe for the skeleton sport.

Thank you to Jason Hachey aka MouthPEACE for the awesome beatboxing, Geof Holbrook for the wicked bass synth and Rick Bailey for the ice sounds. I also would like to thank Mike Kwik for getting me on the track and his guidance, Turc Harmesynn who has been a huge supporter and Alexis Gagnon Morris for the use of his POV footage. Thanks also to Josh Tidsbury for the mix and master and to Krisjan Leslie who helped me develop the song over many many months in the studio.

credits

from HEAD FIRST, track released August 11, 2014
Flute, Electronics - Rozalind MacPhail
Beatboxing - MouthPEACE
Drums - Curtis Andrews
Synth - Geof Holbrook


Recorded by Krisjan Leslie, Rick Hollett, Stephen Pitkin, Rick Bailey, Geof Holbrook and Rozalind MacPhail
Mixed/Mastered by Josh Tidsbury

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Rozalind MacPhail St. John'S, Newfoundland and Labrador

Rozalind MacPhail explores new ways to combine image and sound in works that speak honestly of people, place and the human experience.

A classically-trained flutist, MacPhail layers moody vocals, electrifying flute loops, omnichord and driving electronics through her effects pedals and the digital audio workstation, Ableton Live.
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