New Music Video for My Song, Café

It’s been a minute since I’ve made a music video, and I’ve had that creative itch for some time now!

We at Brain Stamp are working on a new jazz album (or EP, depending on how many tracks we end up writing). I loved working on our track Café from our last album and wanted to make a video for it to tie it into the new songs. There were several setbacks here: 1). I don’t have money to blow on an expensive video, and 2). I don’t have a lot of time to put into making one.

If you’ve seen my video for Tangerine, you know I’m a big fan of DIY. I wanted to do something similar but stay within the theme of Café. It’s about a girl sitting at a café where this other person goes. She hopes to run into them because she has a crush on them. (I guess this could be about a guy doing the same thing, but it has a female vocal so you’d have to use your imagination a little). I wanted to make it seem like the person was actually sitting in the café, so I got out my notebook and a table and got to work! The result is a stop-motion video of notebook doodlings one might write while waiting for their crush to walk in.

I hope you enjoy! Here is the video:

Here is the video for Café:

If you’re curious, this whole video took less than a day to shoot! I got good at it while making Tangerine. I learned what to do and not do and was able to avoid issues I had last time. It took a couple hours total and I’m happy I got it done!

Here are the lyrics:

Every day now

I sit and wait

I hope I run into you 

at this small café

I had a latte

you had a tea

My world was set on fire

when you turned and smiled at me

And oh when I go home

I feel something new inside of my bones

And hey I wanna stay

right here in this small café

I try to study 

keep my head down

but every time I see you

my head spins around

I’ll take a number

I’ll get in line

I’ll walk another mile

just to see if you’ll be mine

And oh when I go home

I feel something new inside of my bones

And hey I wanna stay

right here in this small café

And oh when I go home

I feel something new inside of my bones

And hey I wanna stay

right here in this small café

If you want to buy the song (thanks for your support!) it’s available on my site here or on iTunes or Amazon! You can also hear the rest of Zebra Stone on either of those pages.

If you like the video and want to share on social media, please feel free. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen! I really, truly appreciate it and hope you enjoy.