Fat Monster to Produce Video for Vienna Teng

Rounder Records, one of the biggest independent record labels in the United States has reached agreement with Fat Monster Films to produce a music video for artist Vienna Teng. Vienna's first major national exposure was on the David Letterman show in January 2003; she has since made appearances on the CBS Saturday Early Show, National Public Radio's Weekend Edition, CNN's NewsNight with Aaron Brown, and The Wayne Brady Show, and opened in concert for Joan Baez, Shawn Colvin, Joan Osborne, Sarah Harmer, and Marc Cohn. Her first album, Waking Hour, peaked at #5 on the Amazon.com bestseller list; her second album, Warm Strangers, reached as high as #2. In 2006 Vienna signed with Zoë/Rounder. Vienna is currently finishing an extensive tour promoting her new album Dreaming Through The noise.

Yesterday (Saturday) Tim and I met Vienna backstage at The Independent in San Francisco where she was scheduled to perform two concerts. Vienna was extremely gracious and enthusiastic about the project and she gave us free rein of her dressing room where we liberated a couple bottles of Stella Artois while waiting for her to complete her sound check. We worked out details for the music video concept and stayed to watch most of her first set (which was incredible).

This will be Vienna's first music video and the song chosen for the project is Gravity from her first album called Waking Hour. Steven Dempsey will be Director of Photography for the shoot and we expect to complete shooting and post by spring 2008.