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“AMNPLIFY VIDEO PREMIERE”

MEGAN ALBANY’s
“SUGAR COMEDOWN”
sweet music video resurrected
after surviving floods

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“AMNPLIFY VIDEO PREMIERE”

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After an exhausting twenty-four-hour straight film shoot, Megan Albany and Marc Mittag, handed the hard-drive with their newly finished music clip over to their producer Jimmy Malecki for safe keeping. Little did they know that less than a week later, his house, along with the homes of thousands of others in the Northern Rivers would be flooded.

As the waters rose, Jimmy’s determination to save the film clip rose with it and he texted Megan and Marc to assure them that no matter what happened, if he couldn’t save anything else, he would save the hard drive and his five dogs.

True to his word, Malecki kept the drive and his dogs safe. In the weeks that followed, in between flood clean-ups and Marc Mittag having a car accident and getting a nail through his leg during in the floods, the video was somehow completed.

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The single, “Sugar Comedown,” is the first single from the upcoming album, The Soundtrack – The Very Last List Of Vivian Walker. An album inspired by the Banjo Prize-shortlisted debut novel by Megan Albany, published by Hachette Australia.

Just like the crazy journey that is life, this whole project from the book to the album, offers an honest, real, rollercoaster of emotions.

Megan describes her single, Sugar Comedown as being “…all about that messy moment when you realise your relationship is about to end, and you find yourself spread-eagled in an emotional crash. When that happens all the rules go out the window and it’s time to call your friends over and binge to your heart’s content. Everybody has been there. Sometimes you just need to sweeten the deal until you feel better.”

Filmed in Megan and Marc’s house, it took over fifty kilograms of confectionary to convert their kitchen into a site worthy of their sugar extravaganza, “We brought in fifty kilos of candy and popcorn and invited over some of our favourite larger-than-life, colourful friends. We teamed up with legendary director and photographer, Jimmy Malecki, danced like tea-pots and made an absolute mess.” Megan laughs.

The video even managed to feature Megan’s dog Jemima. “It was an all-in party. My home, my friends, my family, my dog and a whole lot of pink popcorn.”

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The album, recorded at The Kingdom of Kunghur studios, features Megan Albany’s husband, Marc Mittag on guitar. A legend of the music scene in his own right, having toured with Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, Marc pushes the boundaries of the acoustic guitar on every track.

“There is no band or loop pedals on this album. There is only one track of guitar and one take,” says Marc. “All the bass parts, chords and melodic lines are played all at once in one take. We wanted to keep it feeling live and raw, it was such a huge challenge, especially on the up, dancey tunes like Sugar Comedown. It’s exciting trying to make a song really groove without using the usual tools. But luckily, it really worked. Sugar Comedown is up, fun and honest. We also added in multiple layers of vocal harmonies and percussion to add to the groove as a bit of a shout out to Motown, which we both really love.”

“Sugar Comedown” is a colourful, sweet, summery music clip with a deliciously dark edge.

“SUGAR COMEDOWN” is out now

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AMNPLIFY – DB

Dave Bruce

My nickname is “The Amnplifier”. Why? Because around here my focus is on being a conduit for providing greater outcomes that people come here for. My day to day “work” is living in the moment, and I love helping others concentrate on finding their connection to themselves through their experiences.

Why start a music environment? The truth is I love music, I love writing, and I love life. I work with musicians every day, and I feel certain that I will be until they put me in the ground. I have been managing people in businesses of some sort for over thirty five years so along the way I have developed some “wisdom” from my regular and constant “observations”.

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