Ed Hale

New music video from the latest Ed Hale album Ballad On Third Avenue. The song “Beautiful Losers” is actually the title track and song #5 on the Transcendence singer’s newest solo album, and is entitled “Ballad On Third Avenue (Beautiful Losers)” for those wishing to download the track from iTunes. The music video was shot by photographer Flavia Molinari and edited by Roger Houdaille of the indie-rock band Ex Norwegian.

Recorded in October 2006 in Miami, Florida while recording the Transcendence album All Your Heroes Become Villains, the two-part “Happy Columbus Day” monologue video by Ed Hale was one of the very first videos posted to the YouTube channel TranscendentTV. Since that time, Hale posted over one-hundred and twenty videos of a wide variety of content to YouTube in a little more than half a year citing it as a cultural experiment. Often misunderstood, the controversial video is straight-faced, biting, sarcastic, and entirely tongue and cheek the singer claims. Happy hunting and happy Columbus Day!

Ahhhh, the sites, the sounds, the smells…. the excitement of Africa. Well truth be told life on a worksite in the middle of nowhere slaving under the hot African sun for ten hours a day isn’t that exciting. But it does accomplish some noble goals and makes for some interesting thoughts to think about in this new video series “Going to Ghana” where Ed Hale and friends take off on a mission with Habitat for Humanity to build two homes from start to finish in two weeks. Watch them here or head to YouTube where they are posted.

 

Lost footage rediscovered. Live concert footage of the band’s CD release party for their 2002 debut album Rise and Shine to a packed house at Cafe Nostalgia on South Beach. Featuring the songs Minnie Driver, Keep moving on, Mother, Tres Cool, and Better luck next time.

Thanks to an external hard drive found by longtime Transcendence graphics guru Eduardo Silva, a batch of previously thought lost forever video files have surfaced, some nearly twenty years old, featuring a very young Ed Hale, aka Eddie Darling. This post includes a local Miami newscast on Channel 6 circa 1988. Featuring Ed Hale and his fellow bandmates in Broken Spectacles when they were still in college and other South Florida alumni such as Matthew Sabatella and Jim Camacho.

In the summer of 2004, Ashville North Carolina based filmographer Diane Doyle and her production company Journey of Dreams embarked on a quest to film a documentary about singer/songwriter Ed Hale and the rock group TRANSCENDENCE. She filmed the band in rehearsals, interviewed the members, and followed them on the road to create the one hour film entitled Everything Is Cohesive. The band had just completed recording their then-new CD Nothing is cohesive. The film was directed by Diane Doyle and edited by Ron Roman.