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Rooted in Time: Willie, Micah and the Making of Last Leaf on the Tree
A behind-the-scenes meditation on the making of The Last Leaf on the Tree, Willie Nelson’s newest album, capturing a father and son’s intimate collaboration as they confront mortality with grace, resilience, and love.
A Film By Jeremy Steinberger
Produced by Micah Nelson, Harlan Steinberger, Jeremy Steinberger and Randi Malkin Steinberger
Cinematography: Ivy Chiu & Randi Malkin Steinberger
Edited by Jeremy Steinberger
Recorded at Hen House Studios
Sunny War “Lucid Lucy” Hen House Studios
Music Video
“I wrote the lyrics for Lucid Lucy about two years ago. But I have been a big fan of sleeping most of my life. Lucid Lucy is a tribute to the wonderful limitless world we all have access to. Lucy is exhausted and tired of her dull life. She has a better time asleep than awake. She has mastered lucid dreaming and has beautiful adventures every night when she goes to bed. My friend Niall Taro Ferguson plays cello on the song and it’s quite dreamy.” -Sunny War
Sunny War – vocals, acoustic guitar
Niall Taro Ferguson – cello
Album “Simple Syrup” produced by Harlan Steinberger
Video by Sunny War and Randi Malkin Steinberger
Particle Kid “Someone Else’s Dream”
Hen House Studios
Music Video
Video credits:
Directed, edited, camera Randi Malkin Steinberger
Concept Micah Nelson
Producer Harlan Steinberger
2nd camera Alexandra Dascalu Nelson
Music credits:
Guitar, drums, vox – Micah Nelson
Guitar – J. Mascis
Bass, vox – Paul Bushnell
Vox – Sunny War
B. Wurtz “Some Songs” Hen House Studios
Each track on B. Wurtz’s album Some Songs is accompanied with a music video by Randi Malkin Steinberger. “Matching the sophisticated simplicity of B. Wurtz’s music was the beauty and challenge of making a visual companion to Some Songs. Images gathered from my own films and found footage, as well as from short videos shot by B. on his iPod Touch under my direction, are manipulated and strung together in a layered collage of visual sentiments – mostly done while under quarantine. My studio is in the same building as The Hen House where B. and the band recorded. My husband Harlan produced the project and so I had the luxury of witnessing the album as it evolved. Images swam through my head throughout the process, leading to discussions about me creating videos. I went on to actualize 14 videos that ultimately became the video accompaniment for B.’s magical songs… What an honor it was for me to take on that challenge of making a visual companion to his music.”
“Kingston Bolero” Hen House Studios
Music Video
“Recorded at the legendary Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, the hundred-year-old classical symphony transforms into a dub ballad of universal love” – Producer Emanuele Della Valle
Video credits:
Directors – Emanuele Della Valle & Randi Malkin Steinberger
Camera – Michael Burbridge, Randi Malkin Steinberger, Tashieka Megghross
Editor – Randi Malkin Steinberger
Colorist – Josh Kane/ Arcanum Post
Special thanks – Ras Mickey
Music credits:
Produced by Emanuele Della Valle
Line Producer – Lincoln Thomas
Project Manager – Harlan Steinberger
Saxophone – Dean Fraser, Oshane Love
Trumpet – Okeel McIntyre
Keyboards – Carol Bowie Mcloughlin
Drums – Kirk Bennett
Bass – Trevor McKenzie
Flute – Donaldson Sheldon Bernard
Percussion – Sydney Watson (Congo Billy)
Guitars – Lincoln Thomas
Recording Engineer – Roland McDermott
Mixing Engineer – Shane Brown
Radio Edit – Harlan Steinberger
Recorded at Tuff Gong Studios, Kingston, Jamaica, the months of May and June 2021
Particle Kid “Music” Hen House Studios
Music Video
“This song was inspired by a spontaneous conversation I had in 2015 with Paul Simon about folk music and then later that night I was randomly flipping through channels in my hotel room and stumbled upon a PBS documentary called “CHILDREN OF ISIS”. I was inspired by the conversation with Paul and shaken to the core by the film. Sleep was futile, so I instead stayed up all night writing “Music”. Its basically a cathartic, idealistic dream vision… my reactionary fantasy message to the children of ISIS. I wish I could translate it to Arabic. The whole idea is probably naive and useless, but it at least makes for a pretty song with a positive message. I hope it bring some joy. Who knows, maybe it can change a mind or two…I have seen music do that.” -Micah Nelson
Micah Nelson – Guitars, vocals, charango, percussion
Paul Bushnell – Bass
Single recorded and mixed by Harlan Steinberger at Hen House Studios
Super 8 and iPhone video shot and edited by Randi Malkin Steinberger
Sunny War “If It Wasn’t Broken” Hen House Studios
Music Video
“I wrote ‘If It Wasn’t Broken’ at the end of a rough relationship,” War writes . “The chord progression is soothing to me, and I especially like Nikita Sorokin’s violin part. If you listen carefully you can hear the surdo drum imitate a beating heart throughout the track. This was the producer Harlan [Steinberger]’s idea. I hope the pulse of this song can comfort and resonate with other broken-hearted people.” -Sunny War
Sunny War – vocals, acoustic guitar, bass
Micah Nelson – surdo
Nikita Sorokin – violin
Album “With the Sun” produced by Harlan Steinberger
Video by Randi Malkin Steinberger, Riccardo Spinotti, Valentina de Amicis
lì e via (Studio Alighiero Boetti Rome)
A short film by Randi Malkin Steinberger
Shot in Super 8 film by Randi Malkin Steinberger and Luca Pancrazzi at Alighiero Boetti’s studio in Via del Pantheon, Rome in 1990. Photos from the book “Boetti by Afghan People”.
Music by Paul Bushnell, Robbie Fitzsimmons, Dave Ralicke, Harlan Steinberger and Maria Vidal at Hen House Studios
Ellyn Maybe “City Streets” Hen House Studios
Music Video
I heard half of the long, quietly mesmerizing “City Streets” on the radio—what was this? A woman with a poem, with music and a sung chorus not behind her but circling her, and the poem neither exactly recited nor sung, but spoken with such a lilt, in a voice so full of miserabilist pride—at forty, a woman is still getting high-school insults tossed at her (“Hey Mars girl,” a man shouts on the street, “get off the Earth”)—that it’s music in and of itself. – Greil Marcus, Believer Magazine
Poem Ellyn Maybe
Music Tommy Jordan and Harlan Steinberger
Album “Rodeo for the Sheepish” Hen House Studios
Super 8 film shot and edited by Randi Malkin Steinberger
Holi-days
Documentary Film
Inspired by the quote from St. Francis of Assisi, “you are what you are seeking”, Randi Malkin Steinberger set out to document her observations and those of the contemporary traveller. Shot entirely in the three mythic cities of Jerusalem, Florence and Las Vegas, tourists, guides and experts reveal a subtle contradiction between the modern pilgrims’ anticipated expectations and their actual experiences. Holi-days suggests that the transformation we seek can be as profound as a religious epiphany, as superficial as a successful shopping spree, or as life-changing as winning the jackpot.
Sundance Channel- Docday Premiere – Selected screenings: IDFA- lnt’l Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam; IFP Market, NY – Spotlight on Documentaries, Feature Documentary Section, Silver Lake Film Festival, CineVegas, Wisconsin Film Festival.
Directed by Randi Malkin Steinberger
Edited by Fabienne Rawley
Camera by Dani Zion, Alessandro Berti, Chuck Lang
Music Harlan Steinberger and Hen House Studios
Il Viaggio
A short Film for Kate Pulitzer Freedberg 1958-2010 by Randi Malkin Steinberger
Super 8 film shot in Morocco, Italy, Indonesia and France 1985-1990