Friday, October 25, 2019

Quick Hits: New Videos from Dog On Fleas and Father Goose

It's not that über producer Dean Jones works on every children's music release; it just appears that way sometimes. But when he sets his laser focus on his own material, Dean comes up with some pretty darn good stuff. There's a new Dog on Fleas (Dean's band) CD coming in the near future.

And in the meantime, there's a video for the brand new song "Doppelganger." Dean says he would be asked occasionally about his motorcycle, and he'd have to reply that he didn't have one. So the idea that he had a doppelganger (aka a lookalike) intrigued him. Assisted by Tim Sutton of Ratboy Jr (and a green screen) and guitarist Jacinta Bunnell, he set out to document his thesis, as kind of a tribute to the minimalist style of Kraftwerk as well:



Raffi is so concerned about the affects of social media, personal handheld devices, and interactive video games that he established the Child Honouring program to give them something positive that substituted for those options. Father Goose also had some of the same concerns. He and Danni Ai put those issues to music for the song "Kidzzz (Want to Be Free)," on their EP "I Can Make It," which is available on Soundcloud. It's tough to be yourself when "the world is mine in cyberspace." Here's the video:

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