Roxy Green's emotionally expansive track "6 Months" has a heaviness within it's beauty. Contained within the almost immediate rush of sounds and melodies, after a startling pretty beginning of bell like keys, you get the feeling of sadness and as the song moves on an urgency of emotions, of falling down and of breaking down. It is beautiful but there is a maddening feel too swirling around that ever present maudlin tone. A lot of that sadness, that melancholy is contained in Green's vocal aesthetic which is crystal clear and hides pain around the edges. The song sort of waltzes in this heady dance of storytelling and I love the crisp electric guitar picking that stitches it all together.
"In 2018 my dad retired early, moved to remote Shadow Hills, CA, and lost his driver's license due to early-onset Alzheimers. This video is my attempt to recreate and document that time in his life."
"6 Months" besides being such a dramatic and sadly provocative bit of storytelling, vast and cinematic, in the end, is a deep love story that certainly contains a million hidden stories. Loving this.
Roxy Green is the musical moniker of Liv Brazill (vox, guitars) supported by Genevieve Mazzella (keyboards, vox), John Rezende-Shalom (drums and percussion) and Paul Stafford (bass, vocals).
The following is pulled from the deeply personal story of the video (pulled from YouTube) :
A little about the video:
Throughout the year of 2018 my dad retired early, moved to the remote Los Angeles locale of Shadow Hills, and lost his driver's license due to complications from early-onset Alzheimers disease. Many of the things he found pleasure in disappeared or were no longer available to him. This was my attempt to recreate and document that time in his life.
Though we started the production and concept of this video in Fall 2019 (from Charlie Wolf's kernel idea for a music video of my dad reading a newspaper in real time), I now find it reminiscent of many of our lives during the COVID-19 pandemic: when we find ourselves struggling to survive and/or isolated from friends and social interaction, many of the good things that we experienced shut down or otherwise unavailable to us. We try to regain our sense of normalcy through any inkling of hope, routine, or fulfillment we can. My dad notes that for him, life remains much the same during the pandemic, though he still feels "off" in a way difficult to describe.
I feel lucky for being able to work with the people I did on this video. Thank you to Bryan for taking a day off to help me follow my dad around. Thank you to Charlie for putting in the many hours to make this video make sense with only a Tommy Burger for reward. Thank you to Noel for opening your doors to us and being an overall inspiration (his venue and one of our mainstays, Sunspace, has recently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.) And, mostly, thank you to my dad for letting us be a two-man-and-a-camera-sized fly on the wall, making your day all the more cumbersome. He can drive again now.
Much love.
Roxy Green
-Robb Donker Curtius
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ROXY GREEN is a moody Los Angeles Drama Queen writing introspective guitar-music. Described by some as "Sad 70's Power-Pop", others as "Sleepy Car-Seat Headrest", and a special select few as similar to "Beck screaming at people on the bus with a guitar", empathy is the cornerstone of Roxy Green's music, and they frequently write and sing with others' perspectives in mind. Roxy Green is Liv Brazill on vocals and guitars. John Rezende-Shalom helps out with drums.
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