Last in the series of incredible 7-piece vocal project Shlomo & The Lip Factory performing their song “Run It Rains” live at the London’s beautiful Union Chapel. Download this song on The Lip Factory EP from iTunes or name your price here.

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See if you can spot the cheeky Tinie Tempah reference

Big thanks to Union Chapel for allowing us to film
And to Moral Hangover for shooting and editing the video!

“Run It Rains” written by Shlomo

The Lip Factory are:
Shlomo
Claudia Georgette
Alyusha Chagrin
Heidi Vogel
Triple B aka Billy Benjamin Boothroyd
Testament
Matthew Featherstone

I made a sample pack of beatbox sounds for the Yamaha Artist Series…You can download it free! More info here. Happy blipping!

If you’re a beatboxer, whether you’re a full-time pro or you only do it in the shower, I’d love to hear your thoughts via the survey below. And just as a bit of an incentive, we’ll pick one lucky person who will win £50 of Amazon vouchers, courtesy of www.musicroom.com.

Please pass this on to anyone you know who beatboxes, wherever they are from!

If you can’t see the survey below, click here to take the survey

TAKE THE SURVEY:

7-piece vocal project Shlomo & the Lip Factory singing and beatboxing a version of “Perfect Day” and “Hallelujah” backstage at London’s beautiful Union Chapel. Download The Lip Factory EP from iTunes http://itun.es/iBC2qb or name your price here.

Big thanks to Union Chapel to allowing us to film, and to the amazing dudes at Moral Hangover for shooting and editing the video- thanks guys!!

“Perfect Hallelujah” arranged by Shlomo

The Lip Factory are:
Shlomo
Claudia Georgette
Alyusha Chagrin
Heidi Vogel
Triple B aka Billy Benjamin Boothroyd
Testament
Matthew Featherstone

To celebrate the YouTube release of the award winning 2007 documentary “The Beatbox Choir” we are giving away 5 copies of the film on DVD, with original artwork from Eleanor Meredith.

To be in with a chance of winning, all you have to do is

a) follow me on twitter and
b) Click this link to tweet the following before 5pm on 17 January 2012:

“Here’s how to win a DVD of award winning documentary “The Beatbox Choir” about @Shlomo and @swinglesingers: http://bit.ly/Ak77VO #freestuff” Tweet

That’s it!

Don’t forget you can watch the film online in full right here.

http://thebeatboxchoir.co.uk/

This is an award-winning documentary film from 2007 about the creation of beatboxer Shlomo’s choir “The Vocal Orchestra”.

Filmmaker Colette McWilliams and her team were granted exclusive access throughout the 6 weeks between the choir’s first meeting and performing their headlining show for the International Human Beatbox Convention. The film follows the highs and the lows as Shlomo, the Swingle Singers, MC Zani, Bellatrix and Spitf’ya break new ground to create a whole new performance sound – it’s THE BEATBOX CHOIR!

This film was independently produced in London and has previously only been shown at film festivals, including the OS International Film Festival where it was awarded Best Documentary, and at the D Reel International Film Festival, Australia where it was included in the official selection.

This is the first time it has been made available on the web.

Shlomo: http://shlo.co.uk/
The swingle Singers: http://swinglesingers.com/

http://sensoproductions.com

To organise screenings of the film:
info@sensoproducions.com

Directed and Produced by: Colette McWilliams
Producers: Russell Reid & Jean Phillipe Gossart
Director of Photography: Jean Phillipe Gossart http://jpgossart.com
Editor: Stephan Talneau http://vimeo.com/stephantalneau
Sound Recordist: George Butterworth
Boom Operators: Julian, Kareem, Curzio
Sound Mix: Sebastian Reuters http://klangkosmonauten.de

The Original Blurb from 2007:
Beatboxing has been on the rise in the UK over the last five years as fans marvel over the inhuman sounds that these underground stars can make. In The Beatbox choir we follow Shlomo, British beatbox pioneer and South bank artist in residence, as he takes four of the UK’s top beatboxers along side Grammy award winning acapella group The Swingle Singers, and gives them six weeks to turn themselves into the UK’s first full scale human Beatboxing choir.

Before the group had even met they had major festival interest and had been advertised as the headline act for The International Beatbox Convention 2007. Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra have six weeks to create a choir that has to follow acts such as as Beardyman (2x UK Beatbox Champion) and Roxorloops (Belgian Beatbox Champion) to a sit down concert hall full of beatbox fans. Sold out just days after the tickets went on sale and promoted internationally, the crowd’s expectations are high. As Shlomo aptly said in his first introduction to the choir: “I have no idea what we’re gonna do, but we’ve got to do something.”

This inspirational story tells of friendships forged from diverse backgrounds, conflicting musical genres and clashing cultures, with the creation of the choir comes the creation of musical family. From the first day the group meet until their first public performance at the convention, week-by-week we see the creative journey of Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra. Lead through experimental voice-coaching techniques, we watch the group step out of their comfort zones as they perform in ways they never knew they could.

The Beatbox Choir is an inspirational story of ambition, risk-taking and brand new sounds.

Happy Xmas everyone! Here’s a little Xmas gift from me and my merry Lip Factory – a free download of our Lip Factory Xmas medley. You can also watch the video here.

FREE DOWNLOAD: A LIP FACTORY XMAS

I invite a different artist to perform an improvised collaboration with me at each of my Mouthtronica shows. The day after each show you can download the live collaboration as a free single. Share the love!

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Here it is – this video comes with a hefty cheese warning!!

DOWNLOAD THIS TRACK FOR FREE

My all-vocal band Shlomo and The Lip Factory joined the amazing 1Take.tv in the studio for a special Xmas medley! The Lip Factory are: Shlomo, Claudia Georgette, Johannah Jolson, Harriet Syndercombe Court, Triple B aka Billy Benjamin Boothroyd and Matthew Featherstone. Filmed and edited by Beatrice Black, Jonah James and Matthew Diegan, with sound production by Elliot Bradley.

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Another lovely one from our Union Chapel gig… The acoustics in the chapel are incredible so we decided not to use the mics for this one and sing it completely acoustically and acappella. It was a spinetingling moment You can find out more about my all-vocal project The Lip Factory and download our EP at http://shlo.co.uk/lipfactory.

Big thanks to Union Chapel to allowing us to film
And to Moral Hangover for shooting and editing the video!

“For Emma” by Bon Iver, arranged by Shlomo and Harriet Syndercombe-Court

Performed by:
Shlomo
Claudia Georgette
Triple B aka Billy Benjamin Boothroyd
Matthew Featherstone