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I’m just starting to put everything together to create the first-ever music video of my solo career, and I’m very very excited about the fact that I’m barely going to appear in it. You, or more accurately, your old photographs, are what is going to be featured.

“The Brooklyn Accent” is a song from my new album, Reliquary (available 5 June 2012), that very sentimentally celebrates the fierce pride that emanates from all sons and daughters of Brooklyn.

The production of the video is going to feature over 600 photographs, and I’d love it if you were willing to share scans of old photos, taken in Brooklyn, of your parents, your grandparents, your great-grandparents, cousins, friends, eccentric uncles, etc…. I’m looking for joyous moments: old wedding portraits, outdoor scenes, laughs and smiles from a time very fondly remembered. Anything from the 1980s on back to the dawn of photography. If you’ve got any old shots that involve Brooklyn landmarks, those would be wonderful to include as well.

I know how much old photos mean; I know that ours mean the world to us. So I would never ask you to send the originals. I only want to receive digital versions of them via e-mail.

This album was such a communal effort; I’ll never forget the experience of making this record with your help. It only makes sense to me that this video expands that feeling and includes folks that we all love and miss.

So if you’re willing to share some old Brooklyn pics to be part of the music video for “The Brooklyn Accent,” kindly send them along (high-resolution, file-size of 800k or more images please) to brooklynaccentphotos@martinrivas.net … I’m hoping to have all of the photos by mid-March. Send as many as you’re willing to share! (and forgive me if there’s an image that doesn’t get included)

I hope you’ll consider being part of it.

xoxo

-martin