SkAndRock official video release

Anidroc is back with a video to promote their new SkAndRock Album with a video for the title track. The Album will be out in the next couple of weeks. Anidroc has promised that it will have a lot of Ska and Rock as the title track obviously shows. Anidroc has always been Don Mario's solo project but now that Skambomambo is on hold, it is time to get some ska into Anidroc together with the electronic, funk and punk vibes that have consolidated the Anidroc trademark.

The music is by Anidroc and recorded at Anidroc Studios Bugibba Malta. This is Anidroc's first album recorded in Malta. The themes have some of the happy go lucky aspects Don Mario had always kept for Skambomambo together with the political, social  and deeper issues that have always crept into Anidroc music. "As a solo project this work means a lot to me," says Mario Cordina for Anidroc. "It was a way of finding my shoes in a new chapter in my personal and musical life. The musicians that I have worked with in the past are all far away and this is me, myself and I with a bit of nostalgia for the ska and a signpost for the future. I have worked a lot with Skambomambo and I really miss the band, but my musical soul has accompanied me on my journey and I am grateful that it will never abandon me."


The video is animated word art which makes for quite an original and creative video by Anidroc Film.

An A.M.P. production 2017

SkAndRock Anidroc's new LP

The long awaited new Anidroc album is ready for release. 'SkAndRocK' is in joint collaboration with Skambomambo Don Mario's band and has combined the ska with the rock. The album will feature Ska tracks in retro classic two tone ska together with a dose of punk rock. The Anidroc influences of rock and electronic will still appear at times. The album will feature the title track 'Ska And Rock' obviously Ska and Rock, 'Dubious'a reggae tune followed by 'Pools of Water' a Punk raw guitar song. The more ambitious sounding 'Thunder Child' 'Austerity,' 'Beautiful Toy' use ska rhythms and electronica. There is also a funky tune, 'Shoestring Budget,'for good measure. Then there is a haunting 'So Far' tune, a danceable 'One and Only' and a classic Rudy Style Ska track 'Thank You.'

The artwork for the album and scenes from the promotional video soon to be released can be seen in the slideshow below.

 

Other Side of Town Anidroc Video Release.

Anidroc has released a new video for "Other Side of Town" from the LP 'My Prayer.' The lyrics are about the bridges that people break down. These bridges that man burns and the walls he builds separate people, ruin people's lives, makes us ignorant, intolerant, brutal, violent and their consequence is misery, hatred and war. It is intended as a message to those who are responsible for taking such decisions, the world and political leaders to think about the human suffering and the repercussions of their actions for present and future generations. Forced immigration, forced slavery, forced separation, the biggest enemy to making is ourkind.

The video is a cartoon, ragged and film grained, produced by Anidroc Film Productions to visualise the theme. The track was recorded at Anidroc Studios Szczecin Poland 2015 and will be the last track from the 'My Prayer' LP of that same year. Anidroc Studios have moved to the idyllic island of Malta where work on the new Anidroc Album is reaching its end.

ANIDROC - Mario Cordina

Jagoda Beltrani-Cordina

"My face is all over this video. I have always wanted to have a cartoon of myself." Mario Cordina, vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist and basically the heart of Anidroc, AMP Productions and Anidroc Film comments. "The reason why this video took so long to come out was that there was an idea to use people from different nationalities but it was a little too windblown and time and financial restraints held the production back. So we took a very different tangent and turned back to our animation workshop crew just as we had done for the 'So Much For Love' video. We just decided to try cartoons and figure a way of animating them and make them tell the grim story and message that fit this song so well. Apart from my face there is also the cartoon of Jagoda Beltrani Cordina, and other characters in traditional Asian, Arab and Indian Costume. We are all one people."

  

Watch the Video on Anidroc Tube

Other Side of Town
lyrics: Mario Cordina for ANIDROC

I hear, they're burning down bridges,
On the other side of town.
I guess they've got their reasons,
For burning the bridges down.
Yes, I guess they've got their reasons,
For cutting us off, the other side of town.

I guess I won't be able to get to work,
On the other side of town.
Giess I won't be able to see my friends,
On the other side of town.
Guess I won't be able to see her,
On the other side of town.
Maybe me and you is all over,
Me on one side,
You on the other side of town.

Shall I go down to the river,
See them burn the bridges down?
Maybe me and you is all over,
Me on one side,
You on the other side of town.

So Much For Love

Anidroc has released a new Video Single entitled "So Much For Love" today Tuesday November 15th. The song is an Anidroc original recorded at Anidroc Studios and comes from the 'My Prayer' Album released in December 2015. So "Much for Love" is the fourth single to be released from this album after "Bombdropper," "Under Your Steel" and "My Prayer." It is an 80's style retro rock pop anthem with the characteristically haunting Anidroc vocals.

The lyrics centre around the refrain refection on "So much for love when revenge awakes." It's a desperate and angry cry of anguish at a love gone down wrong alley. Love is compared to a wasteland where all dreams have run barren and when this happens the lovelorn person howls with a hunger ready to bite. (Full lyrics below video) 

The "So Much For Love" video takes the song to a new dimension and features Ben Dage, a successful musician on tour with his band and his fiancee Giselle. However things take on a evil turn when political events at home turn his people, The Faceless into an oppressed and persecuted race by the Voiceful in Anidroc City. What will happen when the singer's revenge awakes?

The Video introduces Berrydroc News performed by the charming Jagoda Beltrani Anidroc. The video is supposed to portray a surrealistic image of real events in today's world without any direct reference to specific countries or people. It is concerned with the human tragedy created by warfare and political mongering. The Voiceful, those who carry weight in world politics and power over the Faceless, those who get brushed thoughtlessly aside in their wake.

Directed by Mario Cordina, "So Much For Love" the Anidroc Crew also worked in collaboration with Clothes Pegs, Bandages, Old Unseemly Socks, Duck Tape, Blue Tac, Toothpicks, Toilet Paper, Carton and Scissors.

The "So Much for Love" Video is also being used as a Anidroc Film tutorial entitled 'How to Make a Film from Nothing." The tutorial will demonstrate how to make films on a tight budget through a mix of still animation and other tricks used in the making if this video.

Lyrics

"So Much For Love"
by Anidroc

So Much for Love


My joy, my pain,
Washed in the cold, cold rain,
My life, my worthless life,
Is all you stand to gain.
My flesh, my blood,
Is all here for you to take,
My rage, in my cage,
Is the one thing you cannot break.

And so much for love,
That ego breaks,
And so much for love,
When revenge awakes.

My hopes, my dreams,
Riding on a nightmare,
My eyes, my smiles,
Down an abyss on a bottom stair.
My love, my love,
Cries out in a desert night.
My rage in my cage,
Hungry howls ready to bite.

And so much for love,
That ego breaks,
And so much for love,
When revenge awakes.

Sing goodbye

Mario Cordina for Anidroc. An Anidroc Film. An A.M.P. production 2016.

'So Much For Love' Anidroc Workshop.

Here's the Anidroc Workshop at Work on the 'So Much For Love" Video Clip.

Step 1 Creation
The first slideshow is about the first stages of production. Ben Dage and all the protagonists created By Anidroc Film Workshop in collaboration with Pegs and Bandages.

Step 2 Graphics
The second slideshow is about the second stage of production with a series of test pictures taken to get the feel and first glimpse of what the movie would eventually look like. Some of these test pictures were used to create graphics that were used in the real film itself. Test shots are a very important stage of film making. The idea starts taking shape and the technical hurdles become apparent and therefore solvable.