From the Basement

From the Basement is a British web television series created by the record producer Nigel Godrich. It features live musical performances in a studio without a host or audience.

In September 2006, it was announced that Godrich, along with the producers Dilly Gent, James Chads and John Woollcombe were shooting the music series From the Basement, filmed from London's Maida Vale Studios.^[1]

Godrich took inspiration from The Old Grey Whistle Test, a BBC music television series broadcast in the 1970s and 1980s, and the 1996 concert filmRock and Roll Circus, which documents concerts by the Rolling Stones and other acts. He told Pitchfork: "[It was amazing] to see such a snapshot of that time: you get to see [the musicians], warts and all... [We were] just saying what a shame it was that there wasn't anything that really felt as honest as that any more."^[2]

Godrich conceived From the Basement to capture "the true representation" of the artists' work without the pressure of television promotion or interference from presenters and audiences. He wrote that he wanted to make "bands as comfortable as possible so that they can give great performances without the usual agony of TV promo which everyone has to do but no one seems to enjoy".^[1]

Godrich produced the From the Basementpilot as an internet-only show. The full series received additional funding from Sky Arts in the UK and Rave and IFC in the USA.^[1]

From the Basement launched on 18 December 2006. The first UK broadcast was on Sky Arts on 1 December 2007 and premiered in the US on Rave HD on 22 February 2008, followed by a run on the Independent Film Channel in the fall of 2008. The IFC chose to split the episodes listed below into shorter, half-hour segments.^[3] They were also amongst the final programmes broadcast by the now defunct YLE Extra in Finland.^[4]

Una segunda temporada de programas se emitió en Sky Arts del 3 de diciembre de 2008 al 7 de enero de 2009. El 10 de marzo de 2009, la serie de actuaciones se lanzó en DVD . ^{[ 5 ]} Una nueva temporada de From the Basement comenzó en YouTube en mayo de 2022, con actuaciones de artistas como Idles , Warpaint , Caribou ^{[ 6 ]} y Geese. ^{[ 7 ]}

Cada episodio de From The Basement presenta actuaciones de varios artistas musicales. El primer episodio contó con la participación de Thom Yorke , The White Stripes y una colaboración entre Kieran Hebden de Four Tet y el baterista Steve Reid . El episodio fue filmado por la directora Sophie Muller . El episodio 6 de la primera temporada se filmó en el estudio Mix This! de Bob Clearmountain en Los Ángeles, en lugar de en los estudios Maida Vale de Londres . También existen dos episodios completos de actuaciones de Radiohead , publicados como In Rainbows – From the Basement (2008) y The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement (2011).

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