Video: "Young at Heart" - Mista Cookie Jar and the Chocolate Chips (World Premiere!)

Music Is Everywhere album cover

It's not quite Kendrick Lamar dropping a new mixtape or Wilco releasing Star Wars (the album) without any advance warning, but today Mista Cookie Jar and the Chocolate Chips release their new album Music Is Everywhere with less than a week of public notice.  They've been celebrating by releasing a whole week's worth of videos across the kindiesphere, and I get the privilege of wrapping the whole thing up with the world premiere of the video for "Young at Heart."

Mista Cookie Jar guitar, art by Alex Chiu

Mista Cookie Jar's released some of the songs on Music Is Everywhere as singles over the past year, but "Young at Heart" is brand new, a tender celebration of youthful attitudes, a spiritual cousin perhaps to Dylan's "Forever Young."  The song gets some playful stop-motion clay-based animation from Portland based artist Alex Chiu, who, C.J. Pizarro notes, decorated his guitar a few years back.

In any case, you can find Music Is Everywhere today in all the usual places including CD Baby.  And enjoy the video below...

Mista Cookie Jar and the Chocolate Chips - "Young at Heart" [YouTube]

Video: "Tomorrow Is a Chance To Start Over" - Hilary Grist

Tomorrow Is a Chance To Start Over cover

This week sees the release of another dreamtime book/CD collection from Canadian publisher The Secret Mountain, but unlike their last release, the classical "hits" lullaby collection Sleep Softly, this new release is a collection of 21st century folk-pop.  It's called Tomorrow Is a Chance To Start Over, and features songs, a story, and clay characters created by Vancouver musician Hilary Grist.

I'll have a review of the album and book soon, but thought that this video was too lovely not to share first.  It's for the title track, a melody featuring Grist's clear voice, which hits gorgeous heights on the chorus.  The video features the brother-and-sister clay characters Grist created to illustrate the story.  Perhaps you'll see the robin whose voice I think Grist is inspired by in the chorus.

Hilary Grist - "Tomorrow Is a Chance To Start Over" [YouTube]