NewYorkDVD works with renowned instrumentalist/songwriter Mike Keneally on reissues of early recordings.

Acclaimed early Keneally CDs, entitled ‘hat’ and ‘Boil That Dust Speck’, are remastered and reissued with bonus DVDs co-produced by Brian Brodeur, founder of NewYorkDVD.

(Après dinner photo at NAMM07 in Anaheim CA. Form L to R: Scott Chatfield (flying), Brian Brodeur, anonymous marble white lion, Mike Keneally, Sarah, Bryan Beller, Rick Musallum, Dave Foster.)

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About the CD/DVDs from www.keneally.com:

Mike Keneally “Boil That Dust Speck” Special Edition (Remastered)

Released in 1994, re-released in 2007.

The Special Edition of ‘Boil That Dust Speck’ contains the remastered CD plus a region-free NTSC DVD featuring bonus tracks, rare studio footage, vintage live concert material, interviews with participants, and video from a 2006 reunion of the original core band (Mike Keneally, Doug Lunn and Toss Panos) performing songs from both albums. And of course, the first 3000 copies of each Special Edition will be personally signed and numbered by Mike. The Boil That Dust Speck DVD includes a 90-minute presentation of “The Making of Boil That Dust Speck,” featuring extensive video footage of 1994 album sessions, newly-shot interview footage, live-in-the-studio performances from Keneally, Doug Lunn and Toss Panos of “Weekend,” “The Desired Effect” and “Skunk,” and other vital tidbits, resulting in an exhaustive examination of Dust Speck which will thrill any Keneally enthusiast, music fan, or human. The DVD also features an audio archive, with more than 20 alternate mixes and unreleased tracks, including an unreleased recording session with Mike’s rarely documented band Drop Control, playing together for the last time.

Mike on 1994’s BTDS: “This was an album I very much needed to make– an album wrenched out of my darkest depths while in the throes of an exciting variety of emotional torment, this album is a lot less goofy than hat.” The result has been heralded as a masterpiece by critics and fans. Its songs have been a major part of Mike’s live sets for years and head-ripping live versions are featured his 2006 Guitar Therapy Live release. BTDS has been unavailable for eons, and collectors have paid exhorbitant prices for it.

Keneally’s entire Immune catalog from the 1990s is being remastered and reissued by Exowax. Boil That Dust Speck has been remastered with its original track order. Songs on the remastered Boil That Dust Speck CD are:

* Sooth
* ‘Cause Of Breakfast
* The Desired Effect
* Skunk
* I’m Glad There’s Lemon-Freshened Thorax In You
* Top Of Stove Melting
* Aglow
* Bryan Beller’s Favorite Song
* Deep-Fried Skinks Are Go!
* Good Morning, Sometime
* Them Dolphins Is Smart
* 1988 Was A Million Years Ago
* Yep, Them Dolphins Is Smart, Alright
* Bullys (sic)
* My Dilemma
* Helen Was Brash
* Weekend
* Land Of Broken Dreams
* Blameless (The Floating Face)
* That Claim-Jumping Swine, O’Bannon
* Faithful Axe
* Natty Trousers
* Scotch
* There Have Been Bad Moments
* Frang Tang, The Valentine Bear
* I Will
* In The Bone World
* The Old Boat Guy, Part One
* The Old Boat Guy, Part Two
* The Old Boat Guy, Part Three

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Mike Keneally “hat.” Special Edition (Expanded & Remastered)

Released in 1992, re-released in 2007.

In addition to the expanded and remastered CD, the hat. Special Edition also contains a region-free NTSC DVD featuring bonus tracks, rare studio footage, vintage live concert material, interviews with participants, and video from a 2006 reunion of the original core band (Mike Keneally, Doug Lunn and Toss Panos) performing songs from both albums. And of course, the first 3000 copies of each Special Edition will be personally signed and numbered by Mike.

The hat. DVD includes

* Footage from the 1992 recording sessions
* An entire concert from 1993– the first Mike Keneally show under his own name, featuring the live debut of many hat. classics
* A 2006 reunion session with Keneally, Doug Lunn and Toss Panos playing “Cheddar,” “Here Is Why” and “Here Is What I Dreamed”
* Interview footage with key album participants
* Other odds and ends, mostly odds
* The “hat salad” function, which allows you the choice of experiencing these items in random order, an unpredictable banquet of entertainment chunks much like the original album.
* Also– the DVD has an audio archive with nearly 30 additional tracks, including home demos, alternate mixes and the promo-only “Rosemary Girl” single mix

“This album is the sound of someone who can’t believe he’s finally being allowed to make a real live solo album. I was giddy while making this album,” Mike wrote of his 1992 debut, hat.. “One listen to this thing and you’ll know a lot about what makes me tick.” Out of print for years, hat. has been remastered and music previously cut to fit a 1992 CD has been restored. “You’ll now be able to hear ‘Lightnin’ Roy’ the way it was supposed to be heard,” explains Mike, “and songs like ‘Snowcow’ and ‘The Car Song’ will have their guitar solos reinstated to their full fullness. All-in-all we were able to add in another three minutes of music which you should have heard fourteen years ago, so I’m plenty jazzed.” All Music Guide gives hat. four-and-a-half stars out of five. Mike is supported on hat. by the likes of Doug Lunn, Scott Thunes, Toss Panos, Mark DeCerbo and Kevin Gilbert.

Here are the songs on the remastered hat. CD:

* Your Quimby Dollars At Work
* I Can’t Stop
* Ugly Town
* Open Up!
* Dhen Tin
* Spearmint Pup
* Fencing
* Always Man
* My Immense Superiority Over The Silverfish
* Eno And The Actor
* The Car Song
* Heaven Likes You/Apple Pie
* Backstage With Wilson Phillips
* Here Is What I Dreamed
* Here Is Why
* Performing Miracles
* Spoon Guy
* And That’s Why It’s Called Spunk
* Johnny One-Note/The Exciting New Toothpaste From Mars
* Day Of The Cow 1
* Snowcow
* Day Of The Cow 2
* We’re Rockin’ All Night With The Tangy Flavor Of Cheddar
* Rosemary Girl
* Lightnin’ Roy

FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2003

NEW YORK DVD BRINGS KINO INTERNATIONAL’S AMERICAN FILM THEATRE DVD SERIES TO LIFE

Classic 1970’s Film Adaptations of Great Plays Packaged for DVD With Extensive Bonus Material

NEW YORK, NY — NewYorkDVD, a leading provider of expert DVD authoring services, has assisted in a theatrical comeback that hasn’t been seen in New York since Carol Channing’s celebrated return to ‘Hello, Dolly.’

The recent DVD release of Kino International’s ‘American Film Theatre’ series, a three-part series of 14 film adaptations of classic plays — produced in the 1970’s by Ely Landau and featuring such renowned actors and directors as Lee Marvin, Katherine Hepburn, Glenda Jackson, Ian Holm, Tony Richardson, and John Frankenheimer — is a boon for both theatre-on-film and DVD fans alike. The films, originally released in a limited screening, subscription-ticket-only fashion, have not been seen for almost 30 years, with previously limited releases on VHS. NewYorkDVD provided encoding, authoring, and overall technical direction work for 9 of the 14 titles, including ‘The Maids,’ with Glenda Jackson and Susannah York; ‘The Iceman Cometh,’ with Lee Marvin and Jeff Bridges; ‘The Man in the Glass Booth,’ with Maximillian Schell; ‘Luther,’ with Stacy Keach, and ‘The Homecoming,’ with Ian Holm.

Best known for its collection of classic silent films, including those of Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith, Kino has discovered a rich market for specialty DVDs, with extra features packaged in a way that documents the entire production experience.

“DVD has been great for us; we’ve done bigger and better every step of the way, and it now comprises the majority of our business. It is the perfect format for us,” said Brian Shirey, director of operations for DVD and video, for Kino. “NewYorkDVD was able to work closely with us on all aspects of the DVDs, from how much content to place on each disk, to the compression rate and interactivity. NewYorkDVD was able to provide the kind of service that we needed in order to ensure the highest levels of quality on strict budgets and schedules.”

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With the American Film Theatre series, Shirey worked closely with Ely Landau’s son-in-law, Michael Kantor, a producer with flagship New York PBS affiliate Thirteen WNET-TV, to capture the essence of the series as an entity, including film trailers on 12 of the 14 discs. Shirey also produced interviews on several discs (for example, separate interviews with playwright Edward Albee and cinematographer David Watkins appear on disc for ‘A Delicate Balance’), and several discs feature a promotional film made for American Film Theatre, featuring Ely Landau, from 1974. Each disc features a stills gallery, the “American Film Theatre scrapbook,” an “AFT Cinebill” for each film, and an essay on each film by Michael Feingold, chief theater critic of the Village Voice.

NewYorkDVD’s president, Brian Brodeur, encoded the Kino American Film Theatre titles using a Sonic Solutions Creator system, working from Digital Betacam master tapes. A Berklee College of Music-trained musician, Brodeur worked in the Boston theater circuit for several years before venturing into video production, so his sense of theatrical presentation lended itself well to the Kino American Film Theatre project.

“The Kino series exemplifies what DVD is all about; they had all the elements of a jewel-box presentation. In the case of the American Film Theatre series, it was almost as if you were packaging the material for first viewing. They really understand how to present film on DVD, just as if you were receiving reels of film, with promotional materials, at a cinema,” said Brodeur. “We were able to get a quality level on DVD that is pretty stunning, and Kino’s attention to detail is impeccable. The fact that I’m several blocks away from their office certainly helped during this process. This is a benchmark project for so-called ‘lost films.’”
The Kino American Film Theatre series has been released in three volumes, as box sets and individual titles. The American Film Theatre Box 1, released in May, 2003, includes ‘The Iceman Cometh;’ ‘Rhinoceros;’ ‘Butley;’ ‘The Maids,’ and ‘Luther.’ The American Film Theatre Box 2, released in July, 2003, includes ‘A Delicate Balance;’ ‘The Man in the Glass Booth;’ ‘In Celebration;’ ‘Three Sisters,’ and ‘The Homecoming.’ In September, American Film Theatre Box 3 will be released, which will include ‘Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris;’ ‘Lost in the Stars;’ ‘Galileo,’ and ‘Philadelphia, Here I Come.’

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About Kino International

Kino International was founded in 1977, as a theatrical distribution company specializing in classics and foreign language art films. The company focuses on the distribution of high-quality contemporary world cinema, American independents, and documentaries – usually by up-and-coming directors. Kino began operation with a license to handle theatrical distribution of the Janus Collection, a library containing over 100 important European and Asian art films of the 40s, 50s and 60s, including ‘La Strada,’ ‘The Rules Of The Game,’ and ‘Rashomon.’ Chaplin films, including ‘Modern Times’ and ‘City Lights,’ The Killiam Shows Library, including ‘Son Of The Sheik’ and ‘It,’ The David O. Selznick collection, including ‘Rebecca’ and ‘Notorious,’ the Alexander Korda London Films library including ‘Things To Come’ and ‘The Thief Of Bagdad’ (1940), the Walter Wanger Collection including ‘Stagecoach,’ ‘To Be Or Not To Be’ and even some wide screen epics like ‘El Cid’ and George Stevens’s ‘Giant.’

Kino has more recently released offerings from the CIFEX, Corinth and Mosfilm libraries, enjoying many theatrical reissue successes. Among these were ‘Wages Of Fear’ (with forty minutes of restored material), Tarkovsky’s ‘Solaris,’ Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ and his brilliant ‘8 1/2,’ Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ (with ten minutes of restored material), Volker Schlöndorff’s multi-prize-winning ‘The Tin Drum’ and, most recently, a 50th anniversary reissue of Vittorio De Sica’s ‘The Bicycle Thief.’

About Kino on Video

Kino established its own label, Kino On Video, in 1987. Kino on Video has contributed significantly to the resurrection and distribution of films from the silent era,

130 silent films on video, many through our rewarding association with Film Preservation Associates, headed by film historian David Shepard.
Among the highlights of Kino’s silent catalogue are the five-part series “The Movies Begin”, consisting of 122 films made between 1894 and 1914, the ten-part series “The Art Of Buster Keaton”, released in 1995 and winner of Entertainment Weekly Magazine’s “Best Video of the Year” award, “The Slapstick Encyclopedia”, and more recently, the 1924 version of Peter Pan.

In 1999, Kino issued its first DVD release, a special edition of The Tin Drum with full audio narration by Volker Schlöndorff. Kino now has thirty-eight titles available on DVD, including the entire Buster Keaton collection. Another thirty to forty titles are scheduled for release on DVD in the next twelve months.

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About NewYorkDVD

NewYorkDVD’s principal, Brian Brodeur has been producing music and multimedia for over 15 years. He has created award-winning DVD’s for the corporate, entertainment and instructional markets, including discs for Pfizer, Hal Leonard Publishing, Music Sales Corporation, and Fender Guitars. Mr. Brodeur is an expert in all stages of DVD production from audio and video compression, to designing creative interactivity and programming stable DVD functionality that enhances the user experience.

NewYorkDVD’s extensive capabilities include motion menu design, comprehensive graphic design, expert-level multi-pass encoding, creative authoring, surround sound mixing, multi-language translations, subtitling, and multi-angle video. In addition, NewYorkDVD is capable of replicating discs in small or large quantities at competitive prices. Its alliance with Hudson Music enhances NewYorkDVD’s ability to better serve its clients by offering video post-production, comprehensive color correction, motion computer-generated graphics and effects, and creative multi-level videos.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: For a color photograph of NewYorkDVD’s Brian Brodeur, as well as Kino American Film Theatre DVD promotional shots, please contact Chris Pfaff at 201-218-0262 or chris@chrispfafftechmedia.com