#boatfriends

[woodlandrose]

#octobersailing #sailingboat #chesapeakebay #catalinasailboat #boatfriends #feelslikesummer (at Baltimore County, Maryland)

[rchlcreates]

b o a t f r i e n d s   v i n y l 

I was lucky enough to work with the band ‘boatfriends’ to create album artwork for their debut EP. I used a mixture of digitally manipulated drawing, hand-painted shapes and physical layering to create depth + shadows which was then photographed for the final product. 

I was pretty chuffed with the final result + it’s exciting to see my artwork in such a different format.

You can find their music over at http://boatfriends1.bandcamp.com/ x 

[azulea]

Oh! I was tagged my lady alpha Belanekra :D

Name: Tamara Beatriz.

Nickname: Tamara (sometimes, rarely, my mom call me Tama but nothing more)

Time and Date of exact moment: 14:50 pm, 24/03/2015 Average Hours of sleep: 6 Hours. Last thing I Googled: The Russian Kuirass.

Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual.

Height: 1.63 cm.

Favorite Color: GREEN!

One place that makes me happy: My room, specifically my bed.

What am I wearing: Jeans and a hoodie.

Last book I read: Oh God, I haven’t touched a book in a while (ficsficsficsi’madisgrace!) Let’s see...I think it was Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (I didn’t even finish it orz)

I Tag: estrellafiore, thanatosdriver, zantarna, boatfriends, desireetom, aku-no-mama

[succubats]

boatfriends answered your post: I want to watch a movie that’ll make m...

I always cry with wolf children ;-;

I’ve wanted to watch it for a while, but I keep putting it off! Time to get on that, thanks!

[azulea]

daffodil, zinnia & rhododendron ? ^ - ^

Daffodil: What's the most thoughtful present you've ever received?

Mmmm...I don't know xd 

Well it's not exactly a present but, when I was in kinder, my parents organized me the most amazing birthday party ever. It was really awesome. Hope that counts.

Zinnia: Who was your best friend when you were six years old?

Her name is was Karen, she was my best friend till 4th grade, after that she changed of school and in 15 years I only saw her one more time.

Rhododendron: What's the scariest dream you've ever had?

Well, this was a couple of weeks ago. I dreamed that I found the beheaded body of my mother's boss' husband...and I don't remember anything else. 

In fact that isn't even thatt scary, because I'm used to dream worse things, but something about it left me feeling uncomfortable for days.

What a mix! But hey thanks for asking and sorry for the late response :D

[bradophone]

[lovepublishing-blog]

Interview: Boatfriends on songwriting, 80′s nostalgia and epic ninja fight scenes

How do you bring a song from conception to realisation? Do you work collaboratively or solo?

Shanna and I have a pretty cool songwriting process in which she shall show (or email) me a riff or 2, or some other kind of basic skeletal idea and I’ll then spend a bazillion hours on piecing a song out of it. I like to think this of this process as the Mr Squiggle technique 

 I’ll then send the song back to her for lyrics and critique etc. Followed by more to-ing and fro-ing.

How do the words and music interact in your songwriting?

The lyrical side of Boatfriends is predominantly Shanna’s domain. There’s generally a nice melding of the lyrical content and the music’s “vibe”. It’s exciting, however, to have my own vague idea of a lyrical idea or theme but then to receive something completely different from Shanna that’s thematically and melodically much better than my idea.

What skills should emerging songwriters try and develop?

The discipline to get out of bed at 4am and somehow record the melody you’ve woken up with from that dream where it’s the “best song in the world”. I failed to do that just the other week and it took me a few days to live it down.

What inspires you to create songs? Do you have particular songwriters or books that inspire you creatively?

With Boatfriends in particular, I often try to “summon” some of the earliest memories I possibly can and try to somehow translate that into sound. Perhaps that’s a kind of cliche thing to do as a musician but it’s a nice way to reconnect those neural pathways and remember things you may have otherwise forgot. That’s my excuse for my part in the whole 80′s nostalgia trip that’s been so popular in the last few years anyway.

As far as songwriters or books, I honestly and quite shamefully have barely immersed myself into anything new and inspiring and I 100% blame HBO. I guess my new songs are inevitably going feature a whole lot of references to meth labs and gang warfare.

Do you refresh your songwriting by traveling or do you find staying in one place gives you more stability?

Oh how I would love to be able to afford to travel, even just a drive down to Torquay for the day, but alas, I’m a struggling artist and sometimes I can’t even top up my myki. :/ So, yeah, I guess I stay in one place.

What are you working on writing at the moment?

I feel as though I’ve already spent so much of the past 8 years in a creative mindset and lifestyle and that I’ve accumulated so much work that now is just time to realise that work and get it out to the world. So unfortunately there’s very little writing going on of late, however in saying that, I just spent this morning working on beats for a track from the forthcoming The Book Of Ships album, which I play bass and write the odd beat for.

Are you involved in any other writing projects? We would love to hear about them!

I’m involved with a project with Brett Adrien from Post Paint (Sydney) called Bad Man. It’s probably not really classed as “writing” as such, it’s more a remixing/re-interpreting of a really, really so-bad-but-so-awesome B Grade Ninja/Cop movie made in the 70′s/80′s called Silver Dragon Ninja. We slice up epic ninja fight scenes and make gnarly hip-hop infused audio/visual mash-ups. It’s pretty fun and hilarious most of the time. Some of the tracks are quite dark and brooding, which just adds to the hilarity of the acting. We’re yet to perform this project live but we’re looking forward to it!

Boatfriends are a Melbourne based outfit who feature in our Hobart Roadshow daily wrapup films. Founding members Clinton Edwards and Shanna Watson have already shared the stage with Neon Indian, Chet Faker, An Horse and Collarbones and recently added drummer Sam Peterson to their ranks. They’ve just released their debut EP and their single ‘Hands Up To The Light’ and closing track “Sport Billy” have been lauded by music blogs ‘the Ripe’, ‘Indie Shuffle’ and ‘Who The Hell’ and given high praise by JJJ. A clear indication this dream-wave trio is definitely a band to watch.

EP available at iTunes and Bandcamp

Read this article on the Emerging Writers’ Festival blog.

[audacioussoundwaves]

Hands Up to the Light is Boatfriends' second single release from their forthcoming self-titled EP. We could say a few ok things about this song but we really like how Dave Ruby Howe from Triple J put it: "Well this is just beautiful, you guys. Loaded with dreamy textures, authentically vintage production and some hazy vocals that hang in the air all gorgeous-like. Basically, Sofia Coppola needs this for her next movie." (5 out of 5 stars) This track will feature on our upcoming EP but you can purchase this as a single on iTunes or here: https://boatfriends1.bandcamp.com/track/hands-up-to-the-light