Arthur Ahbez finds his way through found footage in the new video for ‘Reckless’. The New Zealand-based singer and his band The Flaming Ahbez have brought a bit of 60’s garage rock to his usual folky sounds. The video is a collage of footage that looks to be from B movies from the 1970’s lending itself to Ahbez’s quirky vocal delivery. The images on screen are edited to accentuate dramatic moments in the song, especially when the band makes some rhythmic left turns.
This is the first single from his upcoming third full-length album. Ahbez departed from his previous DIY home recordings and worked with his band to record at producer Joseph Faris’ studio in Aukland.
Ed Donnelly is a multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and record producer from Los Angeles. He has worked with Willie Nelson, Crowded House, Marc Cohn, Jools Holland, Matchbox Twenty, The Cult, BoyHaunt, Gladys Knight, Trent Summar and The West Coast Mob, Smashing Pumpkins, Del McCoury, OK Go, Exodus, Molly Leach, Tom Morello, O.A.R., Madness, The Crystal Method, DrunkHungry, Deadmau5, Zac Brown, CrysP Tyger, Bighead Todd and the Monsters, Jake Shimabukuro, Barenaked Ladies, Tsar, Killola and more. Donnelly regularly performs with Nathan Jacques as well as Little Silver Hearts and records with GhostsDream. Little known fact: He previously held Top Secret Security Clearance with the U.S. Department of State and Q Clearance from the Department of Energy.
He currently runs The Barber’s Basement Recording Studio in Highland Park and is a partner in The Atmos at Lemontree Studio.
Hot damn, what a track. I love it!