Instruments Guitar, piano, flute Role Filmmaker Name Jordan Galland | Labels Allido Records Years active 2001–present Education New York University | |
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Genres Indie pop, indie rock, folk, country, Burlesque Occupation(s) Filmmaker, singer-songwriter, writer Associated acts Domino, Dopo Yume, Sean Lennon, Mark Ronson, Daniel Merriweather, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Cibo Matto Albums Airbrush, Supporting Characters, Search Party, Wind-Up Rabbit Movies Alter Egos, Rosencrantz and Guildenst, Ava's Possessions, Smile for the Camera Profiles | ||
ava s possessions interview jordan galland and louisa krause
Jordan Galland (born 1980) is an American, New York City-based filmmaker, and musician. He has won a number of awards on the film festival circuit. He has also contributed his music to raise money and awareness of various charitable causes. Other entrepreneurial endeavors include Slush Puppy Music, a record label, as well as his own movie production company, Ravenous Films.
Contents
- ava s possessions interview jordan galland and louisa krause
- Early life
- Music career
- Film career
- Solo discography
- With Dopo Yume
- Animation
- Philanthropy
- Awards and nominations
- References
Early life
Born in Farmington, Connecticut, Galland was raised in New York City and graduated in 2002 from New York University, where he studied film, animation and mythology.
Music career
At eighteen, Galland formed the rock band Dopo Yume. Dopo Yume also played shows with musical group Phantom Planet, both contributed musical selections to the popular show The O.C.. California, and Dopo Yume's contribution The Secret Show (The Day After Tomorrow).
A later band, Domino, is signed to Mark Ronson's Allido Records label. Additionally, Galland has collaborated with his childhood friend, Sean Lennon, played electric piano on Mark Ronson's album Version and co-wrote tracks on Daniel Merriweather's 2010 Love & War, also released on Allido Records.
In 2006, Jordan Galland began working on a series of solo material with friends and former band-mates David Muller (formerly of the Fiery Furnaces) and Sam Oates for what would ultimately become his solo-debut, "Airbrush." In 2008, Galland and Muller continued to build on the solo-material and co-produced Jordan Galland's sophomore solo release, "Search Party." The album was recorded in Hampton Bays, New York, and mixed by Ron Shaffer at Atlantic West Studios in Brooklyn.
Galland collaborated with Mark Ronson on a video homage to The Legend of Zelda. Galland provided the music for director Sara Ziffs award-winning film Picture Me. She had appeared in an earlier music video of Gallands' "The Princess Waits" In 2011, Galland released an EP via his record label Slush Puppy Music, titled To The Top. The music video for the EP's title track appeared on Glamour.com and AOL's music website, Spinner.com as the Music Video of the Day on May 31, 2011.
Galland did a cover version of "birthday cake" by Cibo Matto
Film career
Galland has contributed to a wide spectrum of movies, ranging from romantic comedy to the genre of Horror film, and Zombie comedy.
Galland's 2005 short film, Smile for the Camera, received an award for best screencraft at the New York Independent International Film and Video Festival in 2005. Galland directed, photographed, and edited the film himself, and wrote the film’s theme song and musical score with Sean Lennon and Timo Ellis. An animated music video for his band Domino, Green Umbrella, was shown at multiple film festivals in the U.S., and in Madrid at Alcine37.
Galland has been working on a screen adaptation of Ryu Murakami's Coin Locker Babies, since 1998, in collaboration with Michele Civetta, Peter Kline, and Sean Lennon.
Galland's feature-length debut, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead, a vampire film he wrote and directed, was filmed in New York City in December 2007 and stars Ralph Machio, Jeremy Sisto, and Jake Hoffman. A 2009 Halloween launch party was held at Wooleys in New York. The movie is set to be released in June 2010 through Indican Pictures. This movie is currently playing on Showtime (TV network)
Alter Egos a movie about super heroes is set to be released in Fall of 2012. It stars Kris Lemche, Danny Masterson, and again involves a collaboration with Sean Lennon who both stars in as "Electric Death" and contributes the music.
Galland has music contributions in two entries in Tribeca Film Festival 2012; the movie Supporting Characters and also Krysten Ritter's movie, L!fe Happens.
Jordan contributed a song "Hearts of ice" to the film Life of Crime